Maggi64

Yay! Kisskh.co worked. Thank you so much. But Bilibili is still saying the following, which it has said for over a week:

"Sorry, according to the request of the copyright owner, this film is not available in your area."

My area is NJ, USA. Are other people on the East Coast, USA getting the same message?

For me, Bilibili says:
"Sorry, according to the request of the copyright owner, this film is not available in your area."

Can you give me a link because it's still not working when I type kisskh.meto.co like you said to.

QUESTION

Where are people watching eps 9 & 10? Because I used to watch this show on either Bilibili or Kisskh, but both are dismantled right now. Is this just on my end, or are these websites down for you guys too?

Agreed. Also, he's such a good actor that it's hard to believe he's Mob from "The Man Who Defied the World of BL."

Who else wants to reach through their screen to hug adorable little Tane?

What's with the weird shopkeeper who asks each customer personal questions about whether or not they're with a girlfriend on a trip? And then proceeds to give merchandise away for free to 2 customers in a row? How does this guy stay in business? LOL.

Oops, you're right. But still, MDL usually gives a rating after one ep. So, as you said, it's still pretty weird.

Wait, you literally flew to Japan just to see this? What country are you from? I am from the USA, so that would be a distant and expensive trip for me. I am impressed by your passion for this show (it's my #1 all time fave BL), so I'm not judging your decision to fly to Japan to see the movie. I am just curious since it would be expensive with air fare plus hotels in Tokyo, where I am guessing you stayed when you got there. At any rate, thank you for your review, because I love this story and appreciate any new info I can get on it

Why does MDL still have N/A for the rating when 2 episodes are already out and it says there have been 3,500+ watchers?

Yep, and you put it well in your reply to her that we may have a lot of terrible problems, but for God sake, we don't ignore them. And our film industry certainly does not ignore them. In fact, the American movie industry has been a massive force in raising awareness about our social problems. Just look at how a movie like "Brokeback Mountain" changed so many minds in our country about homophobia. Likewise, movies about racism have been groundbreaking in raising awareness and changing minds for 75 years.

I am not "Miss Patriotic" about defending my country, but when it comes to our film industry, I actually am proud of how it has raised awareness about social problems for decades. Thus, I was utterly shocked when this person said America has no movies about our social ills.

Thank you for acknowledging how surprising his comment was. Many others here are contending that it meant nothing. And I was also proud of him for saying "boyfriend" considering how risky it is to admit this. It made me like his character even more because it was brave.

Are you kidding? There are TONS of films that depict racism and mass shootings in America. At least 5 movies criticizing racism won Academy Awards in America:

Crash
Moonlight
Mississippi Burning
Driving Miss Daisy
12 Years a Slave

You do know about the famous Black American director Spike Lee, don't you? All of his films criticize racism. The American director Gus Van Sant won tons of awards for his movie about mass shootings. The American director Roger Moore also won tons of awards for his film about mass shootings. Maybe you have not seen them, but my god, America has so many movies about these topics that I am utterly SHOCKED by your comment.

There are less movies about mass shootings than racism, because mass shootings are a newer phenomena that began 25 years ago. But America has so many movies about the older problem of racism that our movie guides even have a whole separate category called "Movies About Racism." In fact, you can simply google the search words "American movies about racism" to see that there are tons. There's even a Wikipedia page listing them all, and there are literally hundreds. After all, America has been making movies about this topic since the 1950's. That's about 75 years of American movies about the topic of racism. Wow, I am simply shocked by your statement. It simply proves that you know nothing about American film culture. You should learn about a topic before you comment on it.

Ok, so then he truly did say "boyfriend"? Because that supports my original statement that he was being awfully casual about having a boyfriend in a culture that is still highly homophobic.

That makes sense. Thank you.

It's unlikely that he's only in Jae Won's mind because the entire cast of characters can also see him. Thus, either he's real, or the entire cast of characters is also fantasy. Which would make this show a fantasy, when it's not. It falls in the genre of realism. All given, I am curious to know how this online rumor about Ji Hyun not being real even got started??? Just curious.

So much happened in this episode, but I still can't help thinking of a small thing. That is, how delicious it's gonna be when the ex-girlfriend sees the photos of Jae Won and Ji Hyun together at the beach that Ji Hyun posted on social media. Ah, imagine the jealous rage!

Netflix and Chill makes more sense, because "chill" is an idiomatic term. But the Koreans are constantly eating Ramen. I mean, somebody's mother or grandmother is also going to say , "Let's have some ramen," right? This is why it struck me as odd for this phrase to be a come-on

Well, to be fair, movies and shows from a country usually depict the attitudes of the common culture from where they are made. That's why language teachers advise students to watch a movie about the county's language they are learning in order to learn its culture as well.

As for documentaries on this topic in Korea, can you recommend some?

I totally agree. I think that BL's are giving us a fluffy, fantasy depiction of homosexuality in Asia. "The Eighth Sense" is not exactly "fluffy," but other BL's that fall under that genre definitely give a distorted view of how gays are treated in Asia. They make it seem as if it's very easy for a man to suddenly engage in a male-on-male relationship. I appreciated how "The Eighth Sense" depicted it as actually being very hard to do. For instance, I liked how Jae Won went through a crisis period of "gay panic" after he kissed Ji Hyun because it is more realistic for a man to be frightened this way.

But his prior fear of being gay is why the scene of him casually telling the shopkeeper that he was with his boyfriend confused me. However, a commenter on this thread said that this was a mis-translation and that he'd actually said he was with his "friend" not his "boyfriend." Now, that makes sense because it's more consistent with how Jae Won has been portrayed so far (eg, his gay panic in episode 3).