Netflix’s “ The Cage ” is a Kuwait TV series directed by Jasem Al- Muhanna, which revolves around a bickering couple who visit a marriage counselor named Dr. Nasser to save their equivocal marriage. The story also talks about Nasser’s complicated love life, but it’s not clear if Nasser, who has saved a lot of marriages from breaking up, will get wedded or not in the end.
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‘ The Cage ’ Plot Summary What Happens In The Series?
The story opens in the clinic of a marriage counselor Dr. Nasser. Every wedded couple visits him with a lot of strange complaints and connubial problems. Zaid and Rawan are one similar couple who come to resolve the issues and work on their marriage. In their original complaint to Nasser, Rawan and Zaid explain that their fight is over a sunny-side-up egg. Nasser is complex since Zaid and Rawan both have different interpretations of the events. He asks them to readdress their pre-marital romantic experiences when the couple used to date each other.
Rawan and Zaid’s relationship began in the period of the telephone and recording cassettes, and they got married on August 2, 1990, when Saddam Hussain raided Kuwait. So, the couple believes that their marriage is a bad auspice. Through an auto accident, they came to know each other and eventually fell in love. Although Rawan was hysterical to approach Zaid because of her stern mama, Zaid made every attempt to initiate contact. Eventually, when Rawan’s mama discovered their secret relationship and proscribed her to go out, Zaid, heavily told by the advice of his musketeers, decided to marry her. He indeed induced Rawan’s father with a marriage offer, breaking off her engagement to an NRI croaker from Michigan. Indeed though Rawan and Zaid’s marriage was set in the gravestone, Rawan’s mama noway accepted Zaid fully. Saqr, the hubby of Rawan’s family, was a man of superior position who was likewise devoted to his woman, so that’s why Rawan’s mama preferred Saqr as a son-in-law. Unlike Zaid, who was raised in a patriarchal terrain and came from an orthodox family. Indeed though Zaid professed to love his woman, he proscribed her from working after their marriage or indeed from having children when she asked.
In the meantime, Nasser has his problems as well. He has his squeeze, Lamiaa, a café proprietor, whom he calls his dear friend. Nasser doesn't want to wed Lamiaa because he has dealt with so numerous connubial issues in his professional career that he has grown hysterical about dealing with his own. Hanan, who was a life trainer as well as Nasser’s neighbor, fell in love with him and stepped in as a “ third party ” to the worried love relationship between Nasser and Lamiaa. Although Hanan is Lamiaa’s stylish friend, she always attempts to eclipse her in the race to win Nasser. But Nasser makes it clear that he only loves Lamiaa, but he doesn't wish to pursue marriage, despite Lamiaa’s desire to come to his woman
Zaid and Rawan, who attend Nasser’s comforting sessions, describe their pre-marriage lives and the problems that arose formerly they got married. Flashbacks suggest that Zaid discredited Rawan in every manner, eventually barring her, but Nasser noway holds Zaid responsible for this in any of their sessions. rather, it appears that he's more concerned with Rawan’s internal stability. This is a fairly typical situation in a Middle Eastern country. Anyway, Zaid succeeded in getting Rawan pregnant, but he wasn't indeed the least concerned about it. Zaid’s conduct didn't alter indeed after their baby was born. Indeed his mama was also dazed by superstitions, so rather than taking Rawan to the doctor while she was pregnant, she tried to feed her sauces, to which Zaid didn’t say a word in a kick.
Zaid’s sister, Gamoush, had a neurotic complaint and kleptomania, i.e., an addiction to stealing. But rather than helping his sister, Zaid made fun of her. ultimately, Zaid’s pride was hurt when Rawan and Gamoush visited the doctor without asking for his authorization. Nasser also blamed Rawan in his session for this incident. The third-party, Rawan’s mama, who has been disparaging Zaid for so long and giving her daughter the bad advice to take her hubby by force, failed in her own life when she learned that her hubby had had an alternate woman three times. Nasser concludes that the involvement of a third party always causes the maturity of marriages to fail. However, life will be joyous, If this third person is known and avoided. Eventually, Rawan acknowledges that she only sought comfort to ease the stress in her marriage out of fear of getting like her mama. She heard Zaid tell her that he'd noway consider decoupling Rawan because he'd love her till his dying breath. After he saved Rawan and Zaid from getting a divorce, Nasser went back to his cherished Lamiaa.
Why Was fellowship More Important Than Marriage For Nasser?
Nasser was a marriage counselor who was hysterical about passing connubial conflict because he was tired of helping couples work through their issues. Despite all of this, he formerly dared to marry. still, the marriage eventually ended in divorce. Following his divorce, he met Lamiaa. While Lamiaa, Nasser’s girlfriend, was largely gorgeous and gregarious, she was uncommunicative about her solicitations. They both used to consider each other more as friends than as a couple, but Lamiaa had always craved more. Nasser, meanwhile, was extremely antipathetic to commitment and didn't want to befoul their relationship by connubiality his lover. One of the reasons for it was Nasser’s fear of commitment, which he'd harbored in his mind, and secondly, he didn't suppose that after marriage, his stylish friend would remain the same. So, to save the beauty of the relationship, he chose not to marry her.
Although Nasser avoided commitment, he was, in fact, emotionally devoted to Lamiaa, and despite Hanan’s stylish sweats to win him over, Nasser expelled her from his life. This was because Nasser and Lamiaa participated in a position of understanding that he was unfit to smell in any other woman in his life. Nasser was bothered when Hanan surprised him with a birthday cake because he noway wanted to be detracted when he was at work. He indeed believed that Lamiaa wouldn’t disturb him if she were present. After realizing the third person in their relationship, Nasser incontinently avoided Hanan and rushed back to Lamiaa. He came up to Lamiaa and gave her a bouquet to express his love for her. Although it remained unclear if they would wed or not, there's still some sanguinity that they were suitable to overcome the connubial law, which allows for a relationship to take priority over social conventions. From a different perspective, both of them can live happily without getting entangled in connubial issues.
‘ The Cage ’ Season 1 Ending Explained – Why Did Rawan And Zaid Want To Fix Their Marriage?
After falling in love with one another and getting wedded, Rawan and Zaid’spre-marriage love snappily walked out the door. Zaid, the primogenitor of a veritably orthodox family, proscribed his woman from going out to work or indeed just hanging out with friends. Indeed in the morning, Zaid showed a lack of interest in Rawan’s motherly requirements. Rawan was a skittish and amenable girl whose husband treated her precisely the same way she had been handled by her tyrannous mama since she was a small child. Zaid could have simply given up his patriarchal studies to understand his woman, but in a Middle Eastern country, it would have been a more delicate step.
Instead, “ The Cage ” emphasizes why Zaid was displeased with his marriage he was noway liked by his mama-in-law and was always lowered. But the demotion that Rawan has faced isn't a main concern of the series. Indeed, Nasser’s response to the incident was normal, and therefore he fully ignored Rawan’s internal conflict during the remedy session. The primary cause of this is Nasser’s complete lack of concern for changing out who's shamefaced or innocent in a marriage. He just has one query if, as Zaid claims, “ marriage is a cage, ” also why are they trying to mend their marriage rather than breaking free from it? thus, if the couple came to him for remedy, he'd show them the path without prompting them to continue living in the shadow of their history. therefore, Nasser concluded that Rawan and Zaid wanted to mend their marriage just because they were always in love with each other. They, therefore, didn't want their marriage to be in vain in the opinion of a third party like Rawan’s mama. Rawan ultimately figured out that she went to remedy because she stressed getting her mama.
Nasser too followed his advice and hastened back to his lover, avoiding any form of third person’s presence, just the way he'd counseled Zaid and Rawan and saved their marriage. So, we can conclude it was a happy ending for all four people. But if not, we’ll get an alternate season with another set of problems that Nasser will break with grace and wit.
Final Words
The Kuwaiti TV series on Netflix, “ The Cage, ” turned out to be dull trouble in the romantic comedy subgenre. You can suppose that the series has a sardonic undertone, but from a distance, it looks like a bad representation of potentially strong communication. The plot starts incorrectly but midway shows where it’s headed. Indeed Nasser, who broke the fourth wall, in the morning, showed an eventuality for good humor through this device, but it seems like the makers fully forgot about it for the rest of the series. “ The Cage ” suffers from a weak prosecution and miserable creative choices, and the only saving grace of the film is its decent performances.
“ The Cage ” is a 2022 Drama Romance series directed by Jasem Al- Muhanna.