First Crush (2023)

MUSICAL (!) BL Story (they sing)

They tried...
This is about a boy who falls in love with someone who is in the same club. They connect through the music, yet there is a little conflict to when it comes to one of the MLs songwriting.

This is a fully felged musical BL. They start singing every few minutes and it's really hard to take this seriously. The acting is a bit awkward, but I like to believe they did their best with what they had.
Their singing wasn't bad, simply a bit random, but considering this is a musical I guess you have to expect that there are a lot of musical numbers.

The problem is that the movie is already so short, there isn't a lot of time to tell a story and the songs didn't really help with building the plot.
And while I'm talking about the plot, it was a slightly confusing. Some things didn't really make sense (for example: why couldn't You Jia sing the song himself?). Suddenly singing to "explain" emotions felt forced and made watching a bit cringe at times.

I didn't really enjoy this, but I'm trying to not be too harsh (yes I could've been harsher).
I hope you see that it's a musical beforehand so maybe you can go into watching this with different "approach"/expectation.
I do have to say the singing was so unexpected that I found it quite hilarious and had a good time laughing. Maybe that's a reason to watch it.

Last but not least: the camera and lighting was really nice. So that's a plus, it's a pretty viewing experience, the content was just lacking a little.

Hopefully the actors have a chance to do something else to showcase their acting a bit more rather than their singing... 💕

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