Keep Breathing on Netflix

I’m a sucker for survival dramas

I’m a sucker for survival dramas.

Especially the ones where they have to struggle to stay alive on a deserted island with no food or chances of getting rescued. It’s intriguing.

“Keep Breathing” is a little bit different than most of the survival movies I’ve watched because it tells the story of a lone survivor. Imagine being the only person that survives a plane crash, on a deserted island, and the only food(chocolate) you survive with, gets eaten by a bear. I’ll riot!

The amazing thing about this series is not the fact she’s a lone survivor but how she kept pushing herself to survive. Her fighting spirit is admirable.

The interesting part about it was how she kept reminiscing on all the heartbreaks and pain she has been through and how she survived all those. It was a driving force for her survival.

The storyline was sad nonetheless, because PARENTS. It showed how terrible a parent can mess up their kid based on the way they treated them or the environment they grew up in.

These were the part that made her strong to the end. She remembered all the pain her parent put her through and how (why) her mother left her. She needed answers as to why she was treated that way as a kid and why she was neglected. Those questions needed answers and the only to get them was to stay alive.

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Back to my Ted Talk…

I know parents are humans too. I know they get hurt too. I know most times, life gets overwhelming for them with the whole taking care of their kid’s thingy. But involving or treating their kids like they are the reason why they are mentally unstable is a pathetic thing to do.

Whether they like it or not, the actions they portray to their kids would definitely reflect on their character and the way they treat other people when they grow older.

It affects them a lot.

You see the way most of us in this generation have no plans to get married or “produce” kids, and you wonder why? A lot grew up in a toxic environment and even though in reality they “might” be good parents to their kids, the fear is still there. They are scared they might treat their kids the way they were treated, thereby recycling the pain. The memories of what they went through with their parent are still there.

Not me going into deep talks😭

Anyways, I enjoyed watching keep breathing a lot. I kept rooting for her, although I was unsure if she would survive or not.

Personally, I know my fighting spirit and I know if I was alone on an abandoned island, I’ll definitely survive… or not.

Rating it a 9/10. The storyline did a number on me, I’m sorry.

What do you think?

If you were stranded on an abandoned island, rate your survival strength from 1-10.