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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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Las Heridas Del Viento (Spanish) [Wounded By The Wind]

By Golu
Not every subject that is suitable for a theatre play can lend itself fine as a movie. I mean, if you are trying to make a movie , then make it like a movie. Why try to stage a play in the name of movie. As an audience that confuses me, especially when its just two characters only driving the whole thing.

The story is simple. David, middle of the three brothers is wrapping up his father's estate after his death. Amongst other things, he finds a box of letters which have not been catalogued, which is very unlike his father. When he realizes that the letters are actually love letters written by another man, curiosity gets better of him and he wants to go meet this man and understand why his father was leading a secret life and was he really involve with another man. He decides to meet Juan, a meeting that doesn't go very well at first. Juan then visits David to read all letters and tells him the story of how they met and all.

A black and white film in today's time with only two principal actors leading the show is a risky proposition. On top of that when it has a very theatrical feel and full of monologues. I completely had lost my interest after first 30 minutes when I realized that even the conversations between David and Juan were so made up and artificial. As actors the two do a splendid job, actually but its the direction that fails according to me. A very good looking David was the only watchable thing about this film. Role of Juan is actually played by an actress, which I realized only while I was watching the film and felt something was different. This film could have been so much more into a study of past, heartbreak, melancholy and being gay in 'those' times but this film falls way short of all this. (3/10)
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luigi43 said…
It reminds me "The man who my father loved " , the title is the program ! A decent Japanese movie : a film not a stage reproduction done in 2018.
July 15, 2021 at 1:25 PM
Golu said…
bringing stage play as a film doesn't necessarily always work. I will look for the Japanese one you mentioned
July 19, 2021 at 9:33 AM
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