Red Dot is very hard to rate for me. It is a very sad tale of a romance between a Westerner who never fit in, and an Indian female engineer who accepted love from a Westerner. The problem is there's no tension. It's just telling a tale, with almost no inflection other than what's within the context of the scene. There is no 3-act structure, climax, or resolution. In fact, it'd be difficult to classify this as a romance as there is no happy ending either. It's basically a social commentary.
Kevin is 30 and an IT specialist content to be the head of the call center. He was uncomfortable in relationships, which made him the perfect candidate when his company decided to send him overseas to establish call centers to reduce labor costs. He was first sent to South Africa, then when that was going well, he was dragged home, his call center canceled, then told to redo it in India, where he fell for a beautiful Indian woman with a deformed arm...
The story was basically that modern companies and societies use men (and women) as interchangeable cogs to be replaced and discarded at any time. This is not really a romance per se, and those expecting a romance genre structure like HEA may be disappointed. Rather, this feels like a condemnation of modern impersonal executives and corporations discarding employees at will for their own profits, leaving devastation in their wake. I, for one, did not expect that sort of vague ending.
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: Vague instead of happy ending about a single guy's adventure in India left me confused as this is not really a romance
Tropes: different worlds, fling to a thing
Overall Rating: 3/5
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