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This is at least my second watch, perhaps third, of this film and I have the same likes and dislikes every time around:
Too many loose ends and plot holes/actions of characters not explalined.
An attraction/relationship that was too instantaneous to take seriously. The lack of any building attraction or a slow-burn revealing of it would have made this a lot more interesting.
Where are the cleaning staff/mgr./janitors of this hotel. Seems like you can hang out all day and night, take over a floor if you want and there is no one around.
Acting is really, really good across the board. Choi Jae Toon is beyond hotness and can act too. I feel like all three leads were convincing as real people and there was zero over-acting.
The movie did have a nice, ever-gathering sense of dread throughout. That poor girl.

Anyone know what Se Joon was stuffing in that bully's mouth in the alley?
I did get annoyed with Yoon Jae, who would never just come out and say ANYTHING openly and clearly, as to what he wanted or felt or cared about or didn't want...he was just sort of a spineless fish flopping every which-way and blaming others for the results. I laughed out loud when he got all self-righteous in the hotel room with Se Joon. He knew what he was doing when he did it, and you'll note that he did not follow through on what he claimed he was going to do.

Yeah, sure, but I bet you watched it anyway, right?

You know good and well that announcing to unsuspecting comment-readers that there is a rape in a movie is a spoiler; you're just playing innocent here for the sake of self-righteousness. It would be a spoiler if it were a murder or a robbery too. Who goes into a movie thinking "oh, I'm sure for no reason there is a rape scene in this movie, I just don't know who rapes who yet?" Most movies DON'T have rapes in them, ya know? You're just another SJW out to prove their holier-than-thou bonafides by making sure we all know you think rape is a horrible thing.

I think tags should be behind a "tag" button, honestly. They are nothing but one or two-word spoilers and it should be a person's choice whether or not to see them. I try to glide by them but occasionally catch one or two, much to my chagrin. Whoever started the stupid assumption that audience members need to be warned about the movies they're going to watch?

Lee Je Hoon, who over the last two years of exposure to Asian cinema, has become my favorite Korean actor, is great in this, as he is in all his projects. And this was 12 years ago so being gay and kissing a dude onscreen couldn't have been an easy choice. But he did it and I love him all the more for it. He is a sensational actor. This little film is adorable,as well as moving. Loved the little quirks like the goofy lyrics to the song his BF sang to his mom, and the smiling Jesus on the wall. And the two guys were so freaking cute when JH's boss asked him if this was the "friend" he had been telling her about and they both realized she knew all about their love affair and smiled so shyly and goofily. lol Love it.

Actually, I see a very plausible means of plotting a sequel to MODC which reveals our sweet boy never died at all. I base it on a couple of lines the MODC couple's surviving half's mother delivered to her still-distraught and mourning son in the portion of MODC after the bogus ending. I was initially and immediately suspicious at the time, but it came to naught. If you're interested in my sequel plot line, send me a message and I'll reply there.

Thanks for that. I do too. To me, this is the second-most bogus, soul-killing, homophobic ending to a BL, with History3: MODC at number one. It's just too bad, because the rest of it is so great but the ending leaves a sour taste for the entire production.

Dropping after two episodes. I think this is a pretty lame show. The tone is all over the place, from raucous physical comedy to death by bombing and fire, and it doesn't work for me. Those four friends and their group camaraderie is forced as hell. When they laugh you can see the veins bulging in their necks. The head bully's psycho baby crime-boss act is a caricature of a caricature but it doesn't seem that it's supposed to be funny; I think we're supposed to take him seriously. The slapstick comedy combined with heavy social issues and realistic, extreme violence is just...boring. I wanted to like it at first but there are so many weak-ass aspects to ponder that I can't find the plot.
5/10

Newsflash: the entire world is sexist, from birth to death for the most part. Look at the school uniforms: the boys are covered from head to toe while the girls are required to wear skirts, and skirts are made to show off legs. Where are the boys' bare body parts? And this is the way it is all over the world. That's just a small example of how utterly sexist most cultures are. It is so baked-in at this point that we don't even question it; it's just how things are.

I've watched two episodes so far and I'm starting to like this drama. It looks like the script won't try to wrap up each kid's individual problem or life crisis in one episode each, but allow the stories to continue and overlap each other, which is good and more realistic. Things don't get solved and corrected in life in one fell swoop. Yamada Yuki is a fine actor. I think this is the first show I've seen him in. He is good in the part and way handsome, but to me he is too young for the role. He seems like he should be sitting in class WITH the students rather than in FRONT of them. And god, those japanese hair styles with the hair covering the eyes...seriously, when I used to have hair that would have driven me crazy.

I enjoyed the subtlety of the second episode involving the boy who sleeps in class all the time; gradually allowing us to see why he is tired as a side-effect of his home lifestyle and circumstances. It is amazing how much difference a good teacher who genuinely cares, but knows where to draw the line, can make in the lives of neglected kids simply by reaching out and allowing the kid to feel a connection with another human being. Mental/emotional isolation is a real problem in modern society, given the two-income demands of most families, single-parent families, NO parent families, etc.

Oh good. Glad to be of some use. :) But sorry your week has been so boring.

Jesus, you just can't let it go. Now you've psychoanalyized me and decided my motivations, even after I explained in full where I am coming from on this. I "don't care the slightest" if someone calls this a BL. I DO care, quite a bit, as I clearly explained, when know-it-alls such as yourself, claim to know the one and only definition of ANYTHING, when it is entirely subjective, whether you like it or not.

The person who referred to it as a BL did not say "this is a BL no matter what anyone else says and that's just a fucking fact, full-stop," which is basically your approach in the opposite direction. I never thought anything about what you were thinking about anyone's chemistry or anything else. If you want to perceive TW as NOT a BL, that was fine with me. But you want to tell everyone else what to think, I guess because you need the ego-reinforcement, not being content to let others believe what they want.

So now we're back to you being an arrogant jerk know-it-all, which is fine too. I'd guess you're this way in your daily life. As far as me being "in too deep," you are projecting, pumpkin. YOU are the one who won.'t let this go.

I'm starting to think maybe TW is a BL too...I mean, his and Komei's relationship is clearly gay and they are at the center of the story, so perhaps it IS a BL. Plus, you know, lots of young adult females are the audience for this, as is anything with Suda Masaki in it. So yeah, I think it IS a BL. Deal with it.

Oh, don't worry about offending me. I offend people all the time, as you see here. :) I have an innate, instinctive opposite reaction to people who say THIS IS THAT or THAT IS THIS because I say so and that's just all there is to it. Sorry, but even within science there is a lot of subjectivity, and we are talking the creative arts here, so I'm still not good with you hard definition. Basically, I didn't think of TW as a BL, and I have watched every watchable, and there are a lot of un-watchable, BLs, but if someone else wants to call it that, I don't care in the slightest.

It's not a true sequel, but it's something. :D Can't wait to watch it. https://kisskh.at/23537-teiichi-no-kuni-gakuseigai-no-kissaten

I would kill to see that.

My god, what an arrogant jerk you are, darling. Newsflash: Using "literally," "like," "absolutely," and"queer" and repeating yourself twice in a sentence doesn't make your point for you. Fact remains if an individual audience member perceives a show as a BL and wants to call it a BL, then for them it's a BL. No one cares what you think about it.

Furthermore, apparently it's your belief that "young adult women" are the only approved audience for a BL and if others are attracted to it and watch it then it's not a BL. Sorry, brainiac, but millions of teen and teeny-bopper girls, and males of all ages watch BLs and they are still BLs and again, no one cares what you think about it.

You're a typical know-it-all who writes to make themselves sound as if they have a PhD. in Boys Love. You don't. Get over yourself.

lol. I understand. It's funny how hungry we are for at least one other commenter to agree with us when it seems every other comment is drooling over a show that sucks. In that category of late, see "Bad Buddy." Just awful, but people have commented things like "best, most profound show of any genre, place or time."

Are these people on drugs?

The opinion as to whether or not this is a "BL" or a gay-themed movie or not is entirely subjective. Is there a dictionary somewhere that defines that? lol Anyway, 'my dear" it is a hilarious movie with tons of significant and obvious homoerotic content, enough so to bring it awfully near the "gay-themed" category as one of the tags, for me. If not for you,, that's fine. But to pretend that you get to decide for a "fact" that this is not a BL is silly. If you removed all the gay stuff just beneath the surface this would be half the movie it is, in context and hilarity. If someone wants to call it a BL, who cares? It's way beyond a "bromance."

SEQUEL PLEASE. We need to see how they all turned out as adults in the worlds of business and government.

During the last two years when I've discovered and become obsessed with Asian cinema, it's become obvious and apparent that in Japanese and Korean culture, if not other Asian countries, the people DO do a lot of screaming and yelling. This isn't some comic quirk that you see only in Suda Masaka movies; it pervades the cultures and you see it in ALL movies, comedy or drama. It took me a long while to warm to Korean cinema because the screaming and vicious tones of voice, not to mention the constant slapping and punching and kicking, even in professional settings, of subordinates really put me off.

NOT IMPORTANT that Teiidhi and Komei are in a relationship (if they are)? wth? That's half the fun subtext here, and there are at least two other sets of guys and probably more, who came off as having more going on between them than is readily apparent. How could you miss all the innuendo? Every significantly influential student had another student who seemed to always be at his side...like a political wife, one might say. :)