Teoria do Amor (2019)

Típico relacionamento tóxico

Khai é apaixonado por Third, seu melhor amigo de anos. Third é o rei do engate na faculdade e sobra sempre para Khai resolver os problemas amorosos que ele arruma. Na maioria das vezes ele trata Khai com desconsideração e sempre o deixa em segundo ou terceiro plano. Quando Khai resolve tentar confessar seu amor a Third percebe que todas as suastentativas são falhadas e desisti. Enquanto isso, Third percebe que Khai gosta dele e resolve beijá-lo chamando-o pelo nome de uma menina, fingindo estar bebado só para que ele fique com raiva e deixe de gostar dele. Só essa cena já é doentia o suficiente para classificar como Third como tóxico.

Depois de sofrer horrores, Khai finalmente decide seguir em frente e deixar Third para trás porque convenhamos nem como amigo serve. É nesse momento que Third, ao perder a companhia de Khai, percebe que gosta dele e resolve então reconnsquitá-lo. Depois de tudo o que ele fez, Khai ainda vai desculpá-lo e aceitá-lo novamente. Isso não é teoria do amor, isso é dependência emocional e não deveria ser tratada de animo tão leve em uma série juvenil porque os adolescentes tendem a achar que esse seria um comportamento aceitável.

Khai até podia aceitar Third de volta, mas deveriam ter uma parte do drama em que se deveria mostrar que o comportamento do Third não foi aceitável desde o início, que foi tóxico, abusivo. Que não foi simplesmente idiota ou cretino... foi bem mais que isso.

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This review is intended to be a personal opinion. I do not encourage or discourage people from watching what they like. It is intended to give you an idea of what to expect, but I always say, "watch and make your own judgement."

IF you like a series that has drama and gives you a heartache as well as headache, this is the one for you. Be warned, you will find yourself wanting to go through the tv or computer screen (what ever device you are watching this from) and shake all of the characters and yell "snap out of it" (thank you Cher!) I for one enjoyed the story.

Why the warning? Because...
This series it's frustrating, it's not fluffy, it can be annoying at times, but it's also funny, it's engaging, it tears at your most basic needs when it comes to love and unrequited love. The characters are so flawed that most times we either cheer for them or boo them. While some may find the premise of the story annoying, I'm actually happy that we got to see a different side of relationships. Not all relationships are stable, not all relationships are rainbows and unicorns, sometimes they are a bit toxic or imbalance in the sense that someone gives more than 50% while the other takes more from it. It was a well acted drama nonetheless.

Khai is an unlikable character in the beginning of the story. He is narcissistic, arrogant, self-centered and a man-who*re. But he is a college student who lives his life as he sees fit, regardless of who he hurts so long as he gets what he wants. Those attributes are a turn off for many viewers, but Khai is a character that does exist in real life. By the middle of the series, we still don't see what's so great about him other than his looks, but we are told to believe that he has some great redeeming qualities. It is why Third is in love with him. Which brings me to another point, WHY IS HE in love with Khai? We never really get to know this. However, Khai does start to show some good qualities, such as when he tried to not interfere between Third and An when he believed them to be together.

Third in the beginning of the series was a character many people empathize with and wanted to protect, but from my point of view, he was equally to blame for his own misery. He had plenty of reason to move on from his love from Khai (specially when Khai treated him like crap) yet didn't. But, this type of character again, does exist in the real world and some people have a hard time learning to love themselves enough to say "I'm better than this and I can find someone better than him."

CAST:
Gun as always takes on the character's story and gives it life. He is able to portray the flaws of the character excellently and you believe him 100%.

Off's acting has improved quite a lot from his previous works, While many may be used to his comedic side, it's nice to see that he can have range in acting. He portrayed an unlikable character quite well, evident by how many viewers did not cheer for him.

White: His character was a great supportive friend to Third. At times I actually said, "Third go for Two"

The rest of the cast did really well in driving the story along and while I would have loved to see more of the side BL couple of Earth and White, it's typical of Thai BLs to never truly develop secondary couples.

onto the Technical stuff
Cinematography: Amazing use of color, wide-shots, close shots, Etc. The team took great care in the way they filmed this .Music: Amazing music and great use of it in the drama. Did not seem out of place at all.
Inspiration: I really enjoyed that the drama was centered around classic romc-coms and that each episode was titled after those movies.

Cons: I didn't like the trope of the teacher and student relationship. It wasn't organic and just belittled both characters in my opinion.

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