Do you not realise that Shounen-ai literally translates to Boy's Love, which is BL. Shounen-ai is colloquially used for non explicit bl, while the term used for explicit bl is yaoi. This manga IS shounen ai, for the most part. And yes, it IS the author's choice. Because that's how she wrote it.
Apparently people are forgetting drama goes on script and not actually what actors think
They should be asking these questions to the scriptwriter, not the actor. Do u actually enjoying harassing women, then dressing up as a woman to escape punishment when u get caught? This is movie inspired by real life events? How can u convincingly write such characters without experiencing it first hand?
Stuff like this blows my mind. People will acknowledge the message of the movie and then turn around and say everyone…
Have u seen Soul Man? It's an 80s Hollywood movie where a rich white guy blackfaces as a poor black student (for the AA scholarship) because his parents spent his college trust fund to buy a 2nd yatch. He falls for a black single mom (the leads are a real couple). Towards the end he realises that scholarship he stole would have gone to the FL. The end pretty brilliant. After he gets exposed, the principal (a black guy) asks him, if he (a rich white man) understood how to it was to be a poor black person and the struggles etc., and he says "no. I can never truly understand how YOU people feel, because at the end of the day, I was wearing make-up. It wasn't my real face. If I couldn't handle the struggles, all I needed to do was take it off. But you guys can't, u have to live it with whether you like it or not."
And honestly that's what all these movies fail to realise. A man dressing up as woman can't truly understand what a woman has to go through. Because if the harassment gets too much, all he has to do take off his clothes and get a different job. But the women he harassed have to live with that not only the guy got away with it, he is also making a light of their issues because he can never TRULY understand what they have to live with.
This is ofcose in critic of the trope, in general, not this specific movie.
So he mistakes him for a minor than falls in love with him? Trynna strike a cord but it's probably a minorrr
That is an initial assumption because Sakuraba is tiny. He corrects him immediately..the romance is a slow burn. Not like the guy is like "whoa legal loli wup wup"
Stuff like this blows my mind. People will acknowledge the message of the movie and then turn around and say everyone…
Honestly that being the humour of 80s and 90s is understandable (though never okay) because those were different times. If it was period film, I might have given it a pass. But celebrating bigotry and misogyny in 2024 in no excuse. Esp since the movie's premise is the guy getting upset because he was fired for being a misogynist and dressing up as a woman to subvert his punishment, and we are supposed to cheer for this asshole when he realises that women are people too
I‘m so over dramas and movies where (male) characters only learn to respect women by experiencing the sexism…
While I agree with you, blaming the actor for the script or dialogies is ridiculous. Honestly, I thought it would be like Tootsie, where the guy (desperate and unemployed) dresses up as a woman to take a job because that's what they want (a female secretary). The boss wanted a sexy girl to harass, this guy's alter is 40 something auntie who knows how to put him in his place.
i dont wanna have any spoiler but the ending 😠but nobody says anything to the ending :( and every new info…
We already have a sequel in ULS. I thought this was sequel of ULS since Gongchan is in the cast list and he only knew them afterwards. Dong Hee and Tae Joon (ML of ULS) were friends, they didn't know Gongchan until much later.
And honestly that's what all these movies fail to realise. A man dressing up as woman can't truly understand what a woman has to go through. Because if the harassment gets too much, all he has to do take off his clothes and get a different job. But the women he harassed have to live with that not only the guy got away with it, he is also making a light of their issues because he can never TRULY understand what they have to live with.
This is ofcose in critic of the trope, in general, not this specific movie.