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 ...
Reynhard Sinaga, a mature 30-something student of Vietnamese origin living in Manchester, drugged men he met at clubs and bars and raped them, documenting the abuse on video. Waking up, the men would feel groggy, remember nothing, and usually assume that they drank too much, and that Sinaga had kindly given them a place to stay. Most had no idea that they had been attacked until police knocked on their doors bearing footage. It was interesting how the story unfolds because Sinaga gets caught when one of its victims attacks him brutally and he is hospitalized and when the person gives an account, the detectives get into action. Slowly through video recordings in his multiple phones, they are able to unearth that this is not one off case. Interestingly, since none of the male raped victims ever comes forward (mostly because they don't even know), the task proves to be very difficult. IN this case, most times detectives have to go tell the victims and show them the video footage. How does it feel to be told by a police officer that you were raped? More than a hundred men learned the answer to that question during an investigation into one of the most prolific rapists in British history.
Only on the victims chose to be in front of camera for this documentary. He spoke too about the stigma of being raped, and the fear that he felt about telling his father, adding: “Men don’t talk about male rape. But then his response was amazing… Nothing has been as helpful as talking to my dad.” We learned just how much police work went into securing that conviction, and the emotional toll it took on the detectives and the lawyers involved. At the hearing, Judge said Sinaga was "an evil serial sexual predator who has preyed upon young men". While the earliest case that Sinaga was prosecuted for was New Year’s Day in 2015, police believe he started offending over a decade before then. He was sentenced to 88 concurrent life sentences, with a minimum term of 40 years served before he is considered for parole. This BBC documentary is very well made and deserves to be seen but very difficult to watch. You often don't get to see a detective breaking down, knowing very well what transpired an dhow their investigation probably also ruined a lot of people's personal knowledge of themselves knowing that they were raped. (7/10)
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