There are many love clichés, but among those that most endure over time, such as pyramids and stretch marks, there is certainly the unwritten rule that says that opposites attract. When we like someone very different from us we become obsessed with wanting to find a scientific motivation, something rational that explains the hormonal storm that overwhelms us when we realize that yes, we really like it (insert name as you like) even if (name entered at will) is the last person in the world you would have thought of.
She must have felt just like that Summer Roberts, mean girl di Newport Beach, When began to have feelings for Seth Cohen, the prototype of a nerdy male with an excellent musical selection in his iPod (we remember the 2000 era), on which the collective imagination for Homo Hipster was forged in the following years. We are in 2003-2004, we are on the sunny coasts of California and we are in the teen drama that accompanied us among the rich teenagers of Orange County, better known as The O.C.
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Attraction, desire, magnetism: like magnets, are we human beings also attracted to opposites? But will it really be like this? Seth he practically admits it in the first 20 minutes of the pilot episode. Summer for him it represents that glittering world that cuts him off but never stops shining, it is his turning point, his ideal, his first burning crush. Summer, on the other hand, does not know of Seth’s existence, he is not part of his radar, made up of water polo players and social events.
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For the purposes of the plot, the two soon make a match, but it’s not love at first sight, far from it. A slow courtship, which aims to underline the differences of the characters and raise the question in the viewer: will the shy boy be able to conquer the beautiful and frivolous girl? Of course yes, but it is more interesting to note what happens next. True love interest arises when both characters understand who the other really is, beyond the roles in which the social hierarchy has placed them. We then discover that Summer she is less opinionated and not as sure as she wants us to believe; that Seth always has a joke ready and he’s not just a naive nerd (at this point in the reading, please go and review their first time episode to understand what we’re talking about)
Perfect example are their amorous alter egos, Princess Favilla e Captain Avena, toy horses that both keep next to the bedside table and for both represent a support element during times of crisis. We begin to understand that perhaps the distance between Summer and Seth is not so clear and the differences between the two are only superficial, while in the depth they share a lot.
In 2013, psychologists Martin Montoya e Robert Horton combined the results of over 240 attraction studies conducted from the 1950s to the present. The result proves that that the strongest and happiest relationships are those between people who have similar interests.
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These are not necessarily equal personalities, but individuals who share values and ethics. According to social psychology, those who are similar to us also appear more attractive to us, but in the same way attraction can lead us to change our attitudes making them more similar to those of the person who attracts us. In this intricate emotional pattern, Summer e Seth they represent the complementarity in a relationship, or rather the card “get out of prison without going through the street” of love stories: the two characters grow up, change, leave each other but in the end they always find each other again, all without forcing and without ever being upset. Their story teaches us that we can appear different because we are different in small things, but be able to build the complicity of a relationship on the basis of common principles and drives.
Who knows if in 2021 with Tinder in the hand that allows you to highlight your interests in special boxes, Seth e Summer they would never have understood that they have so much in common or maybe who knows, a horse-loving water polo player would have gotten in the way.
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