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 ...
Newlyweds Sue and Arthur start off their marital bliss by arriving at the wrong place at precisely the wrong time: A murder scene right outside their apartment building by a gang of members dressed in leather slinking in dance routine. In a surprising move, the gang lets them go after they ask their address. From here the film takes a weird turn where the couple starts feeling some desires and horny sexual yearnings. Arthur has now hots for one of the gang members and he goes to meet him in a bar and there is a massive sexual tension between the two on two-three occasions that they meet. Sure has her own thing going with her latent machoism, dancing and acting out and honestly I didn't even understand or cared what her deal was.
The film has this theatrical feel to it laced with neon lights, weird choreography , some poetic dialogues. Arthur disowns his masculinity and trails after Teddy, the gang guy like a numb limb, baffled by but powerless to resist his fascination. I would have been very happy if just this trait was explored in detail and the whole focus of the film had been on their evolving relationship. Sadly they just get few scenes. The entire storyline and plot felt tedious. It feels the film was trying to give its own definition or perspective of what gender is, which is very obvious everytime Arthur refuses to be the macho man, and also with Suze's latent machoism. This is a film that turns what could otherwise be a glib throwaway theoretical query — “What is a man, anyway?” — into a seminal question of style and sensibility. But what a boring way to bring this to the screen. The film may pay homage to queer aesthetics, but it fails to make any coherent points about gender or sexuality. In my opinion, this is completely avoidable. (2.5/10)
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