Labyrinth (2024)

this isn't LGBT...

donno why there's an LGBT tag - the fact that the male leads got close, automatically means sexual attraction? if so i missed the signs - cause there were none to be found.

if i didn't read the description, wouldn't have guessed that the reason Xiao Fang ended up in Surfers' utopia, was cause he just broke up with his gf. from what i saw, it seemed like he was just a man lost in life, with no direction that held on to the only life-line offered to him - that came in the form of a job, to run the surf shop by the sea that Dong Bin owned. a job opportunity that opened up, cause the previous worker had to go back home, cause of family issues.

all of the people who ended up in Wan'an, were either running away from something or were lost & needed a place to call home & that's why they all became "family" - under Uncle Dong Bin guidance. guess hurt people can recognize kinder spirits & he welcomed every new comer into the "family".
everyone who came to Surfers' utopia & stayed were lost in some way, everyone carrying their own baggage, Xiao Fang & Yuan Yong just connected. given the fact that Yuan Yong reminded Xiao Fang of his childhood bff (& what happened to said bff), it was logical that on his part, he wanted to get close to Yuan Yong. that doesn't make them "closeted". people can have chemistry with other people of the same gender or the opposite gender & it can be totally platonic.

if anything, there was no romance to speak off in this movie, even though Yuan Yong & Yu Ling came as a couple, they didn't interact like one - other then when they were making out lol. but they were more like friends with benefits. even in the scene where Xiao Fang & Yuan Yong were shirtless & Xiao Fang was tending to Yuan Yong wounds, the one that was effected by the scene, that was aware of the picture they both presented & how appealing it was, was Yu Ling. the guys weren't effected in the least - cause there was a platonic connection between them - nothing more.

this was a depressing movie - the MC, Xiao Fang - who was running away from the world, maybe cause of what happened in his teens, seeing Yuan Yong felt he had a chance to redeem himself, to regain what he once lost. but the tragic turn of event with Yuan Yong made him realize, that he couldn't redeem himself or save his bff - again. thus what he chose in the end was sadly, tragically logical.

hella depressing... well acted by all & not a boring moment, even though it is pretty slow-paced - but so freakin sad.

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