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Chained To My Bully Stepbrother (AI Vertical BL Drama)

By Golu
This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat.  The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
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Autopsy (French)

By Golu
Now this film was something to watch out. Totally engaging crime drama with gays being just a part of it. Some would argue whether homosexuality was the theme of the film or was it just a part of it. The more I think, the more I think it can go in either way. So I will leave it as a gay crime drama very different from whole bunch of other gay films being served out there. Eric and Sarah are detectives who are investigation the murder of a professor which it seems like a gay hate crime. When they go for the autopsy of the corpse, they find Dr. Emmanuel instead of Dr. Rose who had so far been motherly figure to Eric. Eric has been married for 20 years and has a 17 year old son but there is something about Emmanuel that instantly attracts him and he tries very very hard to fight it. They need the doctor for some interrogation but Eric is having a hard time, to the extent that he even gay bashes Emmanuel once. Sarah understands there is something wrong but is too busy with investigation. Because of the witnesses they successfully come up with the sketch of possible murderer. Meanwhile Eric cant take it anymore and tells his wife about his attraction for Emmanuel. She is devastated and asks him to leave. Following this Eric moves in with Emmanuel even though they had not declared love for each other so far. Things are going fine until Eric one day sees Emmanuel meeting his ex who looks exactly like the sketch of the murderer. He feels used by Eric. They get him arrested and his ex-boyfriend tries to run away and dies in a car accident. When the ruth is revealed and the mystery is resolved, it turns out that Emmanuel was always right. He never used Eric or anyone but is very very deeply hurt by all this. After the mystery is solved, when Eric comes to apologize to Emmanuel, they hug and kiss and Emmanuel shoots both himself and Eric without any resistance by Eric. I thought the movie's plot was pretty engaging and interesting. Though I dont read many positive reviews online, I liked it. The acting was very good. Though some may argue (like Sarah does in the film), how can anyone suddenly become gay but I dont think Eric turned gay (in literal sense). He was just so so attracted by Emmanuel that it didn't matter he was a man. One downside is that the murder investigation seemed too rushed. There was no logic or explanation behind how could Eric come up with the theory of the murder and it actually turns out right. Both the characters fit their roles and enacted their part well and they had a very nice chemistry. The scenes capturing Eric's struggle for his attraction to Emmanual was very good. Overall very watchable and interesting for me. (7/10)
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Meira said…
I just don't understand the ending. Why kill themselves? In general, people were pretty ok with gays there.
October 18, 2012 at 12:49 AM
Unknown said…
Yes, Meira, I agree! I just watched this movie recently and I liked it for what is was. But I didn't much care for the ending. The cop loses his wife over another man, his son hates him, his old lady friend Rose dies, the doctor's ex dies in an accident and another of the doctor's friends is brutally murdered. The two men have each other to hold on to, they love each other deeply and are happy together. They could live on in a great life as lovers. Why do they kill themselves? Tragic endings have their place in some stories, but this one is baffling. There seems to be no ground for it.
March 7, 2016 at 4:15 PM
Unknown said…
I'm really irritated with this movie ending. I liked the plot even noticing that some scenes were missing to make things clearer. I expected that Eric would return to Emmanuel and they would end up happy after ever. but hell, no, they didn't . it was very frustrating to me watching the entire movie, wishing they would turn out to be together as lover, bfs or good friends, but they did not. but one thing i thought interesting was: when Eric asked Emmanuel what was his thought babout what happens after death, he said that the life keeps on, in the final seconds, the lighter the Eric gave to Sarah, it fell in the street on, firing up and it kept still, their light somehow kept on even after their death, even though i don't believe in such thing, but for a movie it was fantastic to imagine a little bit about that.

I loved it 8.5 my score for that movie.
September 2, 2016 at 3:13 AM
Golu said…
Wow you just have really liked the film to give it a 8.5. :) Did you also notice that you don't really find too many positive reviews for this film !!
September 2, 2016 at 9:47 AM
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