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 ...
Bruno is determined to find Norberto, his boyfriend who left for Iceland and he hasn't heard from him in about 2 weeks. Bruno arrives in Reykjavik, he reports him missing in police station. As he continues his search anxiously, the man befriends a local tour guide, Arnau, who joins Bruno’s road trip across Iceland to find the mysterious man. They first go to Vic, where Norberto was last seen in a hotel few days back. They dont find him but meet two other Spaniard tourists who had met Norberto and tell Bruno that he mentioned he would be going north of the island. Bruno is desperate to find him and they decide to go all the way north , where also he is not found. Eventually Arnau says there last hope is the island off main island called Grinsey where barely anyone lives there. They go there and finally Bruno finds address of Norberto. He goes to meet him, sees him outside, they both at each other and Bruno just leaves. Back in Reykjavik, Arnau gives him a final farewell and Bruno just says that he will now need to create new memories without Norberto.
The plot in the film is hardly there. Almost 70% of the film is driving through the country but what a missed opportunity where at least they could have shown the great beauty. The characters have no chemistry. We are never told anything about Bruno and Nornerto's relationship at all. Why they fell apart and what was the whole point of Bruno searching for him but not talking a single word? Maybe he just wanted to know if he was alive or dead? And what was Arnau's story? Why did he suddenly up and leave and decide to go on this road trip with Bruno? There are barely any dialogues and whatever little is spoken feels like it's being read from the script without any emotions at all. Maybe the makers wanted to show how loneliness impacts all of us and how we are looking for companionship between all of us. Great, but what an extremely boring way to prove your point. Also except for the fact that they were likely boyfriends, there is no other queer aspect about the film. It could just hav been anyone with no changes needed to the script. (2/10)
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