If this is a good BL, then I don't know what is bad
I actually read this novel about 12yrs ago, when I'm a teenager, and I remember liking it, I remember watching the first adaptation too, call 《逆袭》in 2015, and at that time my frontal lope and the society hasn't been developed like today, I find nothing wrong with the novel or the drama, I think its so romantic, and I love me a ruthless man like Chi Cheng, I think the love he has for Wu Suo Wei is so deep and strong. But now, after 10 years, after reread the novel and watch this adaptation, I realize I've grown so much, as an adult, I didn't find this story romantic at all, just pure cringyness and problematic.This story was made by Chai Ji Dan, the same author who wrote Addicted, in her stories lied so much misogyny, the woman is always bad, even if they get cheated on, r*pe or beaten, it's because they're "deserve it", and the main characters (especially the Top) is always right, and they have a sad background, so everything they do get justify, they can order people gang ra*ping someone, and that's cool and manly in her eyes. She also love the trope "turn someone straight into gay" or "I'm not gay but I love you", that just pure straight girl fantasies about gay man. She wrote BL stories for teenage girl, even thou her work and herself is really problematic ( if you follow her from her early work you would know why), but base on this piece popularity, i guess it's reach the target audience, just not me. I purely watch this because of the reminiscent of my younger self, and I'm glad I know better now, I know what a good BL look like, I know what type of media is advocate for LGBT+ helping the queer community, and it's certainly not this.
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This story engraved in my heart...
This movie really engraved deeply in my heart like a tattoo, that no matter how many more years or how many more BL i watch, there's nothing can compared to it. Call it a BL is not justify it genre, instead of BL, i would call it a genius piece of Queer media, since it doesn't just talk about love between two boys, rather its show us the reality of how difficult and heartbreaking society make queer people go through just because we want to live as the way we are. People that brave enough to express who they are get push to the ground and those that hid themself among normal people ended up hurting everyone around them and get to lived their life with regret.I still ended up crying every time hearing the OST, its such a beautiful song, 10/10.
And also the movie seems like its manifested on the actor themself since after the promotion period ended they are not keep in touch for a few years already, i don't know what going on with them but as a fans i really hope there will be a day that i see these two people together again. TAT
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