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...
Channel lives with his boyfriend in Olympia, Washington. In his dreams he is ordered by a drag queen to visit Chicago and visit drag bars. Despite opposition by his boyfriend, Channel follows his dreams to the Windy City where he wastes no time in whoring himself out for living accommodations. He visits drag bar and there he gets into some kind pf trance where his past mystery life collides with present. But now it's too late, and a vengeful apparition named "Ant" has already taken control of Chanel's body and mind. At the house he is staying, he meets another guy and the trio start a journey of sorts following whatever Channel sees in his dreams. In between all this, we have an obese drag queen randomly showing uo our screens with whole lot of fluff that doesn't make any sense.
This film has absolutely nothing worth writing about. It is so called mystery film but it was so sleep inducing with some real bad acting. There is absolutely no purpose behind making this film. Even if you keep your brain aside and try to enjoy and not make sense of everything unfolding in front of you, even then it really doesn't make any sense. As I mentioned in the beginning, the only decent thing is some good penis shots and thats about it. Avoid at all costs. (1.5/10)
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Unless you actually have folders for some important cities and the gay films filmed or set there. If thats the case, Thats a very innovative way of keeping records. :)
I actually do store my media collection in odd folders such as Mythic, Dangerous Children, Mental Illness, Saturday-ish (the kind of kids movies or shorts that were on when I was growing up) and in my GTM folder I separate out the happy from the sad and the German from the Espanol. I have a 70s TV folder. It's surprising how some films can be connected in an odd way and make sense in a folder together. I have had trouble separating films out of the Virus versus the Zombies folder, or Before the Apocalypse folder versus the After the Apocalypse folder. It's just one of those little things my brain enjoys doing.
I like to fall asleep to the TV as it works better for me than appropriate sleep hygiene. Often it's House--familiar, not too intense, not annoying, vaguely interesting but I don't feel the need to turn to look at it. Lately it's been the newer movie "Out of Body." It's weird, I watched it because Jason Gaffney was so great in The Perfect Wedding, then I liked Analysis Paralysis but couldn't warm up to the rhythm of it. This one I thought was unspectacular but not bad. Turns out it's a really good go to sleep movie. Both House and Out of Body are currently on Amazon, and they don't offer a folder function other than Watchlist. That's probably just as well as my brain might start working on it and I won't be able to get to sleep.