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It was discussed as a Romeo and Juliet-esque story where the female lead commits suicide in the forest, potentially being the first instance in literature of the forest being associated with suicide.
It was called Tower of Waves and it's basically like a Romeo and Juliet-esque plot in that there are these young kids in love who are kept apart by something they can't control.
— Episode: Short Stuff: Suicide Forest
Episode: Short Stuff: Suicide Forest
It was discussed as a Romeo and Juliet-esque story where the female lead commits suicide in the forest, potentially being the first instance in literature of the forest being associated with suicide.
It was called Tower of Waves and it's basically like a Romeo and Juliet-esque plot in that there are these young kids in love who are kept apart by something they can't control.
And in the last scene, the woman writes a farewell letter. It's very clearly Romeo and Juliet and takes a bottle of pills and goes into that very forest to die.
And so a lot of people say, well, this is the actual, you know, for the first time that forest has been linked to a suicide, at least in literature.