A Revry original, Unconventional is a really well-liked queer dramedy that feels totally different from the usual stuff. The heart of the story is about two pretty eccentric queer siblings and their partners trying to build a family that doesn't follow the traditional rules. It takes a super raw and unfiltered look at queer life, diving deep into things like mental health, addiction, and how complicated identity and relationships can get. It’s not afraid to get messy or show people at their most vulnerable, and it really pushes boundaries while showing a lot of different queer experiences. The first season has nine episodes, and each one is about a half-hour long. The story centers on Noah, a grad student who’s been struggling for years to wrap up his PhD. He’s been with his husband, Dan, for nine years, and they’ve recently gotten married and moved to Palm Springs. While they're trying to figure out how to start a family and have a baby, they decide to shake things up by in...
Watching this Korean film was like watching those Japanese Pink films with thin paper plot and 70% sex scenes, just in Korean setting this time. Soft porn for all practical purposes. Every single time I end up watching one of these, I am so pissed at having wasted my time and I wish someone told me to just ignore it.
The film starts with a photographer dreaming of sex with a guy he doesn't know. Th next day when his assistant is showing him the pictures of her boyfriend Gi-joon, he is surprised to see that the guy is the same who came in his dreams. He somehow convinces assistant to send him for a photoshoot. Gi-joon really doesn't want to go and clearly is very uncomfortable with the idea of being a model but he gives in. The photographer slowly seduces him during the photo shoot and next thing you know is they are kissing and having sex and an affair starts. Gi-joon is completely in love now with photographer but he was just playing I guess and he strongly recommends that he goes to Italy with his girlfriend as originally planned. A few months later when the photographer is walking around, he sees a man who reminds him of Gi-joon and invites him for photography. Of course, kissing and sex soon follows. The assistant returns from Italy and informs him that Gi-joon never went to Italy with her. This confuses the man and we then see him getting pushed down the stairs with many sexual scenes interlacing between photographer, Gi-joon and this new guy who looks exactly like Gi-joon but a much confident version of him.
Firstly, I have no problems with sexual scenes and intimacy but when they are there for the sole purpose of titilation, they make no sense. The scenes here go on and on forever and they ar not even fun to watch. Besides that the plot is so thin that it could been a crispier short film. It feels like the makers are trying to make some sort of statement here, but the message gets totally lost. Were the two guys the same, one shy and other super confident version of him? Its unclear. Simple seen, the film feels like a photographer seducing a "straight" guy and when he falls for him, he just dumps him. But whats the point! The actual purpose of the movie is to provide the viewer with a lot of titillating yet emotionally warm gay sex scenes. And that, it definitely has. (3/10)

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