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 ...
A flight attendant returns to Korea after 2 years. He meets his ex-boyfriend in a cafe who is still upset about a past event because of which this guy left. The guy abruptly leaves the cafe without saying goodbye, when his friend goes inside the cafe. After sometime this man meets a guy in orange jacket through internet chat. Flight attendant wants a quick sex in a bathroom whereas the new guy wants something more tender and natural even though it is supposed to be a one night stand. When orange jacket notices a scar on the guy's back, our protagonist becomes touchy, and decides suddenly he does not want to do anything sexual anymore, however, he still wants his company, and so after some small bickering, they head to a bar. Seeing a man in a bar he runs after him. The orange jacket guy is confused. It is later revealed that the main character was stabbed in a homophobic attack, which led to him leaving Korea since police and press wont leave him alone and they outed him. With continuous bickering between them, and not being comfortable being open about their emotions, it becomes clear they feel affection and compassion towards one another. They head to a park and discuss their pasts. They have sex and before parting ways. Could this one night stand eventually lead to something more meaningful for the two guys who are both looking for emotional companionship in their own ways?
It is interesting how we are not told the names of both the characters until the very end of the film. It is not important, but I didn't even realize till that point that the names were missing. The story is interesting, but what I did not understand is why would the orange jacket guy continuously keep going back to our main man despite being rejected by him multiple times. Why that crazy attraction, when you see that clearly something is off with him. But if you leave that aside for a moment, both the actors do go through a gamut of emotions. Oddly the things are not very evident when you watch the film. There are a lot of subtle moments. You may totally ignore to realize that the person whom he meets in the beginning was also attacked by the attackers and the reason our guy has come back to town is because the attacker has been released from prison. Our main guy is a classic case of 'once bitten twice shy' , and so he struggle to show his emotions to anyone and running away from his past. He'd rather push away a strangers compassion than feeling the love. He is bitter. I do understand his point of view. But not the other guy's compassion. I am still not very sure. Great acting otherwise and beautiful photography. A bit slow in a lot of places.
The not so obvious plot, in my opinion, would have been so much better if the screenplay was slightly more detailed. Sometime 'less is more' but in this case, i think, it could have been better. (6/10)
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