On HIStory4: Close to You • Apr 6, 2021
Title HIStory4: Close to You Spoiler
I watch this skipping all the scenes with the two brothers as it grosses me out so much. What was already a disgusting scenario --- two people who grew up together as brothers and on top of it, they made scenes where the young brother is shown as small kid while they kept the same actor as the older brother --- grew even nastier when they added the rape as start up for their romantic relationship. What it's more amazing is finding out how many of the viewers can't even recognize that what they watched was rape. From trying to brush up this a cultural difference to even saying that the brother 'thought he was having consent', the explanations to let this to be sold as love story is eye opening. It shouldn't be so hard to point out that if you drug someone (and alcohol is the same) to have sex with them, you are raping them. It's not that it's adult theme... the issue is that the show will make this couple a romantic pair when it should be a case where the little brother is a case of mentally unstable individual with a sick obsession with his older brother. The more the show will try to use pity and justification for the man to rape his older brother and then have him fall in love, the more disgusting the story becomes. It's a shame because the other couple really makes up the good part of the show. Why they decided to make this TV show a Yaoi rape trope it's a mystery, maybe they were trying to be edgy but just look like they are telling that in this culture, if you make somebody drunk just to have sex with them it's alright as long as you have the justification to be 'crazy in love' with the person. If it's someone who trusted you and saw you as their little brother for most of their lives, even 'hotter;' I guess. Boy, and people find this is a love story worth rooting for?