One Of The Best Anthologies!
This anthology is like the first warm summer breeze that sweeps over you after a long cold winter. It is refreshing, gentle, and so enveloping that it makes you feel good all over. This anthology is composed of 4 unrelated love stories told so delicately that you might miss the intensity that lies underneath each of their love stories. Overall, these stories are nimbly told with no overused drama, no destructive love triangles, or cheating plots. It is solid stories with excellent acting in each. All four-love tales are different in terms of poignancy and message. Some are meant to be quite powerful while others are presented as examples of slices-of-life contextures.Was this review helpful to you?
This was an AWESOME roller coaster ride!
The MDL blurb doesn't do this collection of stories justice, and it didn't do anything to prepare me for the experience! I was squealing like a school girl at the sweet moments in the first story, laughing at the antics of the characters in the second (that tissue scene with a side character had me laughing out loud!), tearing up with the third, and cringing from second hand embarrassment with the fourth (at least in the first few minutes).
And that wide spread doesn't just apply to the tone of the stories. You'll see it in the ages of the characters, their life stages (from almost high school graduates to working professionals), and the situations that they have to deal with (from how to handle a parting of ways to how to handle coming together after being apart, from dealing with a growing attraction to dealing with a drunken confession).
I loved the variety, I loved how the characters came alive through skillful acting (no, the actors probably won't win awards for the work that they did here, but that doesn't nullify the good work that they DID deliver --- credit were credit is due), but most of all, I loved how none of the stories felt underdeveloped despite the short run time. I feel like I was given enough scenes and characters and well written dialogue for me to be able to relate to what the mains were going through (which to me is really the point of watching shows --- I don't have to know what happened / will happen like a year or a decade before or after, i just have to be able to immerse myself in the moment in time covered by the story). And it was all packaged in beautifully framed scenes that made clever use of lighting, angles, and effects.
My poor heart was pushed and pulled in different directions in the span of 1 hr. and 24 mins., but Close to You gave me more value at a tenth of the total run time of most BLs. I'd happily go through the experience again!
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