Boring Love (2009)

Sweet if Dated Film

Unfortunately I could only find a very poor quality video of this movie with English subtitles, so my review is colored by my frustration with unclear pictures and bad subtitles.
This film is a sweet and engaging story that sets the standard for first love BLs in terms of storyline and emotional development. Many of the tropes we now see in gay awakening or first love BLs are present here, many years before the Thai BL industry got going. I found this very interesting. There is some homophobia which we also see in many BLs, especially early ones, which I don’t like. It’s frustrating to watch characters say they don’t want to be gay or are not gay when they clearly love someone of the same sex.
The third act of this film was really moving, and I cried when the MLs were separated. Ped’s realization of his feelings after Oí leaves was powerful even if it he never stated that he wanted to be a couple. It is implied enough by the end. I guess it was too much to expect a kiss, though.
Despite liking the story, it was a bit amateurish and lacked development. Certain parts felt abrupt and the dialogue was limited. (Or I thought so because the subtitles were so bad.) The acting seemed good through the haze of poor video quality, but I can’t be sure because it was hard to see their faces clearly.
Overall I’m glad I watched this, but frankly I can now see better versions of this story many times over. Still it was touching and very interesting in terms of the history of BLs. No one mentions this as paving the way for future shows. Maybe not many people saw it or know about it. I only found it because I needed to watch an early work as part of a Challenge.
I don’t think it deserves a good rating but it also shouldn’t be discounted just because it has flaws.

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"Everyone has the right to love, but not everyone can have it."

This is the motto of this half-forgotten film, which I respect very much, even if it does not have a high rating on world servers. But the movie gave me what I expected, and that's important to me. I downloaded it here back in 2016 and only now got to it. The copy is of bad quality, even the sound drops out for a few seconds in four places, it seems to be the same on YT, I put the link in the Comments.
In addition to what the film conveys, I was impressed by all three actors in the main roles. The two super simpos of the characters Oiy and Ped were very good to watch and finally the Thai Kai was very charming.


"Každý má právo na lásku, ale ne každý ji může mít."

Toto je motto tohoto polozapomenutého filmu, kterého já si moc vážím, i když vysoké ohodnocení na světových serverech nemá. Ale mě ten film dal to, co jsem čekal, a to je pro mě důležité. Stáhl jsem si ho tady již v r. 2016 a teprve teď jsem se k němu dostal. Kopie je nevalné kvality, dokonce na čtyřech místech na pár vteřin vypadne i zvuk, zdá se, že je to stejné i na YT, odkaz jsem dal do Komentářů.
Kromě toho, co snímek sděluje, mě zaujali všichni tři herci hlavních rolí. Na oba supersympoše postav Oiy a Peda se velmi dobře dívalo a nakonec i Thajka Kai byla hodně půvabná.

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