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 ...
The plot is simple. Kent and Harvey have been in a relationship for 7 years. Kent has been always into orgies and in fact he met Harvey at one hosted at his place, but sparks flew and they two decided to date. Kent even had Harvey agree to an open relationship which Harvey was ok with. But no win present, Harvey has had enough and he asks Kent to stop this and that they should ficus on just them two as a couple. The duo get into a few heated yet nuanced arguments around why Kent cannot change, why Harvey thinks it is important to stop doing this and how the duo need to focus on thier town individual sex lives. Clearly the two men very much like and love each other, but 7 years later , the two want different things in life. Harvey has definitely made up his min to end the relationship if Kent cannot change his ways, but is this going to be easy for him?
The film is just under an hour and at the onset it seems like this may be a bad bad film, but it does go into nuances of the whole concept of open relationship and just puts forward one more perspective. The film doesn't take sides, but it shows us where both these individuals are coming from. As an audience, you can see both points of view and why individually they both make sense, and it's difficult to take sides. You just listen to both sides and based on your individual beliefs and your opinion on the whole concept on an open relationship, you will take away different thing from the film. Personally, I think the film would have done less with the sexual orgy scenes because somehow that took away the seriousness of the subject for me. Also with such a short run time, this could have been either a better short story or add more material to make it a proper story with a culmination and not an open ended theme. It's also about expectations. I wouldn't have thought much of the film, but when you know the director, you expect something more. (5/10)
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