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Journey With You (Chinese Series)

By Golu
I've always had kind of a love hate relationship with Chinese historical BLs. Some are genuinely excellent, but then there are others that cram in so much plot that keeping track of all the layers of betrayal and scheming gets exhausting, and I end up checking out mentally. Part of the issue is also just how much content is out there in this space, so something really has to stand out to keep me hooked. In this case, the production value is genuinely impressive, top tier stuff, but story wise, I just couldn't bring myself to actually care about these characters. There's a ton of political scheming and backstage manipulation running throughout. Somewhere in the middle of all that chaos, a hostage ends up falling for his own Prince Charming. The show runs eight episodes, each around 50 to 60 minutes long. After spending three years guarding the border, Fifth Prince Yin Qi gets called back to the capital because of a secret letter, only to end up walking straight into a deadly...
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Kill The Monsters

By Golu
This film is so pretentuos that it's almost laughable. I understand when story writers and directors have a certain vision of the product that they wanna build but its very frustrating for audience when all you get to see is an utterly confused film that comes out more of a piece of arrogance.

The story seems simple. Three gay men are in a throuple relationship. An impulsive trust fund rich boy Sutton,a neurotic super fast speaker Patrick and younger more in the moment Frankie. When Frankie gets diagnosed with a mysterious illness, the trio argue on what to do. Frankie wants to move to west coast and even buys a condo there. Initially three is not interested but they decide to road trip to west coast hoping to find a cure for Frankie's disease. How the three men manage their interpersonal relationship, power dynamic, their financial stability and the sexual dynamic forms the film as a whole. There is a whole section of about 30 minutes towards the end where they have a party with a few lesbians in their apartment building trying to symbolize the political power play at hand.

Look, whatever the analogy that the director was trying to make between these 3 characters and American history, I just didn't get it at all. I tried really hard but it made no sense. He even provides chapters and titles but what unfolds on our screen in front of us in never cohesive or consistent. The crackers have no background. Most time they are either arguing about stuff (Patricks fast delivery of dialogues was super annoying) or having sex. Their performances are average at best, which is me being nice to the actors. There are plenty of those wide shots where the camera just focuses on ether Central Park or historic buildings and a constant argument in the background is going on. The only thing that I took away was how gay men are pretentious, selfish, use drugs, are all about sex and are materialistic. And this is not what I was hoping to see in a film like this. This film has no purpose, no sense of story, or even a message that it's trying to say. Shooting in black and white to give it a more artsy and fancy stuff don't make the film any better. 15 minutes into the film and I didn't care about what was going on. Skip this one. (2/10)
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