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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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Çilingir Sofrasi (Turkish) [A Night In Four Parts]

By Golu
I have a fascination towards Turkish films ever since I lived there for few years. Although there have been a very few gay films from the country, once in a while they do come up with decent surprises. This little small budget film running at just over an hour is one such similar film.

The basic premise of the film is very simple and straight forward. Two former high school buddies meet for dinner in a cozy restaurant after 17 years. One of them has just had a baby and they were able to connect through social media. When asked about his wife, the other friend very casually says that he is gay, used to have a boyfriend but is now single. As they drink and talk they realize another life is possible on a land where toxic masculinity does not exist. They represent the great divide in Turkish gay society: The lonely self-declared homosexuals and the married hypocrites. While they talk more anymore, we realize that. They might share a history from high school. As the gay man says that they were not friends in high school. What they used to do easily makes them lovers. But only if the other guy had the courage to accept who he really was, things could have been very different for both of them.

As modern as Turkish society is towards sexuality, Turkish men still feel weird labelling themselves as gay. They may not be great at expressing themselves and their emotions and this comes out beautifully in this film. I can see many folks not liking this film, since this is very conversational film. Wo friends reminiscing their old days. The straight guy still have feelings for his friend because it was only that time he was true to himself, but he also cannot escape from his reality. All the past memories, their present fights are so well shown. I also really appreciated how well the culture of eating, drinking raki and music in such places was shown. I liked ho the waiter would just slightly let the gay man know about his interest in him, hoping something would come out of it. Even the ending is beautiful in its own way, where they both have to be true to themselves and protect their feelings. Some things were never meant to be. Great acting and a good choice of actors. A wrong casting choice and this ilm would have fallen flat. I appreciate that the film was not stretched just for the heck of it. Told in four parts, the film is just one being evening of dinner and drinks and chat, and guess what, I quite enjoyed it and a glad I saw it. (6/10)
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