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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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Haut Perchés (French) [Don't Look Down]

By Golu
This film feels like a theatre idea turned into a film. The closed room setting, the way too have focus son the dialogues in an apartment, I thought this would be something interesting from the synopsis I had read, but boy was it disappointing.

Five strangers (4 men and a girl) have come together for a mysterious attempt at closure with an unseen man locked up in the room next door. An ambiguous tension is created around their intentions and his fate. Each of them has been in a painful relationship with him, whether sexual or not. Slowly they each share their most secret fantasy and an anecdote about the reality of their relationship with him. Each fantasy reveals some kind of sadomasochistic desire. Each real life anecdote illustrates that the reality of cruelty and manipulation in a relationship, however banal the circumstances, is neither fulfilling or fun. Somehow, for their own reasons, they all put up with it, just so that they could spend their time with him. But what happens privately with that man in the room stays private and their secret.

The biggest problem of the film, according to me, is no resolution. The film ends as open as it started. It is so heavy on dialogues throughout the film, that as an audience you do not get any breather, which, for me, became extremely tiring after a while. The plot is ambiguous and the motivations and desires of these individuals are not clear. I mean, we are not even told why each of these people think that he’s the worst and deserves punishment. We never go into that discussion. They discuss his personality traits but none of them actually go into detail about why he’s such a terrible guy. This film could possibly work in a theatre setting with some additional urgency and tension thrown in. As a film, this was very disappointing. (3.5/10)
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luigi43 said…
If a movie has to be developed from the watcher , it isn't worth spend time and money ! I think that the conductor is a very sly one!
March 24, 2021 at 3:53 AM
Golu said…
I am not sure I understand your point. Can you elaborate more, please.
March 24, 2021 at 9:07 AM
luigi43 said…
Better if the end is clear , not open and according every interpretation. But this is just my opinion.
March 24, 2021 at 9:29 AM
Golu said…
A closed ending would have made it slightly better for sure
March 24, 2021 at 12:17 PM
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