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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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The Adonis Factor (Documentary)

By Golu
A wonderful documentary about gay men and their fascination and pursuit for the perfect physical body. Sure the documentary came almost 12 years ago, but guess what, thing haven't changes much. In fact, if anything, they have gotten worse. I mean, no one, and absolutely no one talked about pretty face or good nature or human emotion, it is al about body , body , body.

The makers take us through interviews of some heavily buffed men, who unapologetically admit to being very subtracted to muscular men and hot men. They make it quite clear that a hot body can get them more friends, more sex and more attention. Most of them agreed that they know its superficial but they all enjoyed it. Some of them recount their experiences of not being given a second look, till they decide to take matters in their hand, get all buffed up and viola, suddenly they are being invited to parties, and orgies and friends. Sadly, I am not sure why the documentary film makers did not use this as an opportunity to deep dive in to the psychology of this obsession. There are a couple moments when the film pretends to expose a serious topic, for example drugs or eating disorders, and the only way you can tell is because the incessant background club music pauses for a few seconds. Even the interviews with the psychiatrist or docs is more about fueling the fire by showing botox and even their own fascination with the perfect body.

If anything, this was a good promo ad for gyms around the world, because what the makers here make us feel that if you don't have that perfect body, you are no one to anyone in the gay world. I am not saying this is not untrue, but I would like to think that a lot of people are beyond that too. But I would have loved if makers went into bigger questions rather than ignoring them like why does there seem to be a racial divide? What are the complications of steroids and plastic surgeries? What psychological or social issues lead some gay men to go to dangerous extremes? What influence do the buff images in gay porn have? Etc etc. I guess their idea was to just get some really hot looking men into one frame, and they do succeed in it. But overall, the documentary is pointless. It tells us gay men stuff that we already know very well. It would have been valuable to go deeper into the psychology rather than making people like me feel even more alienated. (4/10)
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