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1- At no point did I say that it was the first time I modified a review. I said, and I quote myself verbatim: "I don't change a single comma or word in most of my reviews. The MDL administrators could give their opinion on this." You could suggest that I point out that I have modified the review (and I may or may not accept your suggestion, since the MDL rules do not require me to do so), but you should not say that in doing so I am being manipulative, a term used the first time, or dishonest and lacking transparency and decency, terms used at this time.
2- Those modified reviews still fulfill their, and I quote: "main objective (of) is to help others decide if something is worth watching." The very fact of issuing my initial impressions and, if necessary, modifying them, maintains the purpose of adjusting to my right to review a film or a television program and, above all, of expressing the meaning of an audiovisual by applying a criterion. truthful and fair critic. There is nothing indecent or that demonstrates a lack of transparency and honesty in this action. As I said, I have some writing margin. I usually have to delete entire paragraphs to get the review within the allowed margin.
3- I think you are creating a storm in a glass of water. Because? Because the review, even modified, maintains its purpose of evaluating the quality, effectiveness and originality of the story, characters, images, sound and message of an audiovisual.
4- I don't remember having spoken with you at any other time before.
5- You don't have to know it, but before publishing the review I seek to obtain comments from other people, often other MDL users, with the aim of receiving an honest and constructive opinion about my work. I ask you to read my review and tell me what you liked and didn't like about it, what you agreed with and what you disagreed with, what you found confusing or unclear, and what you would suggest to improve it. I listen to comments and consider your views, but I also assume that my review is ultimately my own expression and opinion. I use other people's comments to revise and improve my review, but I remember to keep my voice and perspective intact.

Hello. You are wrong when you say that I seek to manipulate by seeking a "Yes" from people. If I tried to search for "Likes", don't you think it would be much easier for me to say what others would like to hear?
It is also not real that I write something and then at the end of the series I change everything after having guaranteed myself some "likes." I don't change a single comma or word in most of my reviews. MDL administrators could give their opinion on the matter.
I did modify the review for 'To Be Continued' several times (I couldn't say how many, but I would dare say more than 5 times and perhaps MDL will help provide the specific information). And not only did I change the review several times. From an initial 10 I reduced the rating in the end, but at the same time I clearly explained the reasons for my actions. Writing on a digital platform gives that possibility, an option that I do not have in a print, radio or television publication.
Did I change the review "without even indicating that you did so"? I have followed the steps indicated by MDL. At no time have I seen that I should indicate that I changed the review. I wouldn't find any difficulty if I had to do it. And on the other hand, can't the user change their "click" and say that "they no longer find the review useful"? I also have no problem if the user deletes the previously given "Like." I am not here looking for likes and smiles, but to express my opinion on the series, movies and short films that I like. What's more, if you notice, you'll find that I generally give high marks. And this is because I write about what I like and visualize what I like.
If I had imagined that 'To Be Continued' would disappoint me so greatly, I would never have written a review about the series for the simple reason that I had never seen the series.
MDL requires that reviews only have a limited number of words (I think it's up to 10,000). If I have the possibility of going beyond this limit, I could very well leave the initial review that you surely read and to which you gave a "Yes", and all the others up to this last and definitive one.
I hope I have satisfied all your doubts. But there is something true and I suppose it is the crux of the matter: I support and reaffirm each of the words and evaluations that you may find in the review today.

According to MDL, both are 18 years old. Sea was born on May 3, 2005, that is, in a few days he will turn 19, and Keen was born on August 18, 2005.

Thank you, and not just for this occasion. In many of the series I watch you are always sharing how to locate it. Thanks again.

"Once the dog is dead, the rabies are over" is a popular saying that is used to say that by eliminating the cause of a problem, it disappears completely. This axiom fits a lot with 'Deep Night', especially the last episode.
Khemthis "killed the mad dog" by eliminating all vestiges of prostitution in the club... at least for one night, as we have seen how other hosts join in and will take his place and Wela will be his teacher.
With his resignation as host No. 1, Wela will no longer be bitten on the neck by a client, nor will he be groped, groped, kissed or touched in his private parts by someone who paid to do precisely this with him. How predictable everything is!
What he expected would happen, finally happened: Wela will no longer have to tell the client: "I need to go to the bathroom" waiting for the hours to fly by and the day to arrive and with it the closing of the club until the next night, when He would surely have to repeat the formula to avoid suffering the unwanted consequences of his sex work.
Now his mother can go to the club to see him on the trapeze and she would not be ashamed to see her son prostitute himself.
They will now be able to return the academic scholarship lost when everything related to their illegal work exploded.
It will no longer be a reason for finger pointing, gossip and ridicule from neighbors, teachers, and students.
But is that what he wants? I don't believe it. It is true that he is close to paying the debt, but, on the other hand, he never had a question, a single thought about the human suffering that every person who has to become a prostitute must suffer in order to pay the debt left by the father when he dies, or putting a plate of food on the table, or paying for school for his little brother or surgery for his mother. On the contrary, several times Wela praised his work and the treatment received at the club. As I stated at another time: "The main character does not give hope to people in his place. Wela does not redeem herself, she does not find redemption. She does not seek redemption."
Khemthis closed everything that smells of prostitution in the club, at least for one night, to give the public a new image of the club, but he does so not for human reasons or social justice, since his decision ultimately takes away his entry. of quick and abundant money to the hosts of the club, each one in need of this money to solve or alleviate their personal and family problems, although it was not in the interest of the series to point them out. What lightness and superficiality, instead of presenting concrete facts! Welcome to the BL! Going deeper into the topic would distance the series from this genre.
Khemthis acts to save herself from jealousy and avoid seeing her boyfriend today in the arms of one client and tomorrow in the arms of another. He does it for selfish reasons, such as regaining his mother's pride for Wela or forgiveness from the university authorities. If it were not for this, I see no reason why I could think that Khemthis would act in such a way as to economically affect the family business, since any change presupposes risks, when it is evident that he does not care about causing economic damage to the hosts by closing off the money they earn from their sex work. Or will everyone be happy and content because they no longer have to prostitute themselves? So, was it necessary to become a prostitute? Why didn't the owner consider dedicating the club to presenting acrobatic acts and other entertainment activities instead of incorporating work with sexual content among the club's functions or actions?
When the time came, Freya had to admit mistakes in allowing prostitution in the club and apologize to the hosts "for the chaos that had previously existed in our club until today's special event occurred", that is, eliminate the chaos, which is nothing other than ending the practice of prostitution in the club.
Whether or not it was their interest, the creators have given their opinion regarding the debate that is taking place today within Thai society about legalizing prostitution. The defenders of legalization propose that if it were legalized, the employment discrimination to which these already vulnerable people are subjected would be eliminated. That is, they would be on equal terms with the rest of the workers.
With Wela's renunciation of prostitution, but with the assurance that others will follow her, the creators of the series save Wela from all the conflicts that this has caused her, and at the same time have taken the side of those who in Thailand choose to legalize it.
To all these, I was hoping that Japan and Seiji would save the series from my disappointment. If Seiji always considered Ken only as a friend, if he had thousands of occasions to have a romantic or sexual relationship with him and never had one because for him Ken was nothing more than a friend, why did Seiji's sudden interest in Ken? ? When did Seiji realize that he loved both of them at the same time, when he always showed interest in Pan and never in Ken, despite the latter's constant hints first and statements later? And to make matters worse, instead of Ken acknowledging to Freya that there is a relationship between the three of them, he acknowledged that he had a relationship with Seiji. The creators' decision to form sexual trios ended up sinking a timid series that always bordered the limits of BL and did not dare to define itself as an LGBT+ drama.

You can find the series with English subtitles here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S6MNQFELZM&list=PLn4jXkToOXpBvzB6YuQNufHXxTYlJ0CdL&index=5

Hello. Thank you for your words. I really liked the series. I hope they continue producing works like these. A hug.

When someone offers sexual services in exchange for money, IT IS Prostitution. For sex it is not necessary to reach penetration. Obviously the creators DO care about the issue of prostitution, because there is a reason they address the issue, although, honestly, very lightly and even in a festive tone.
If they were not interested in the subject, they would surely have put Khemthis and Wela in an engineering school and instead of trapeze and auctions they would have given away gear wheels or on board an ocean liner about to sink after colliding with an iceberg. Don't you think? If the subject had been approached with more rawness and realism, you would surely be one of the BL lovers who would not watch the series, since this would never have been a BL, but rather an LGBT+ drama that explores the issue of male prostitution.
At no time have I said that prostitution is not legalized. Surely the series contributes in this sense of legalizing it. If you knew the Thai reality, you would surely know about the debate on the matter at this very moment within that society. On the other hand, I do not believe that its prohibition or illegalization has anything to do with fascism. It has been illegal for many centuries before the rise of fascism.

I had a few things left to say, so I apologize if it bothers you that I have to return to the topic:
The clients' actions are not inappropriate since they paid to interact with the host in that way and not another way (NOTE: I am not saying that their actions are appropriate, kind and plausible). The client is in the club looking for an escort service, and expects to receive it after paying the required amount or a sum above the other clients, since the hosts have set themselves up for something very similar to a sale of a house in the center of a city, a painting or another museum piece at auction.
The client feels they have every right to do what they do. And on top of this he drinks, he gets drunk, and the club workers, including the host, owners, security and others, have to thank him, clean his shirt if he spilled drink on him, accompany him to the bathroom if he is drunk, drive him to the taxi that is waiting for you outside the premises. Only Law and Order would prevent him from acting this way, and we well know that the club does everything possible to prevent both Law and Order from knocking on its doors. For some reason it will be.
Cheewin likes to address topics such as the corruption of managers and producers of BL series production companies who ask actors for sex in exchange for a role in a series, as well as the underworld of the entertainment business and other topics that others Thai BL directors wouldn't dare or care to try.
The client, as I said, feels within his right to act in this way, trampling on the rights of sex workers, since they do not have a law that protects them from abuse by clients. I assume that one of the objectives of the series is to contribute to the debate that is currently taking place in Thai society about legalizing prostitution and thus eliminating the employment discrimination to which these people who, with the exception of Wela, are vulnerable, are subjected. Wela does not seem like the ideal candidate to practice prostitution, since her economic and social condition is not as pressing as that suffered by other people.
Wela is being sexually assaulted by clients. Of course you must feel angry, upset, hurt by this. But the main annoyance, anger and hurt must be for reasons that the series hides, denies or ignores: the prostitute's suffering for having to get ahead in his life, pay debts, be able to put a plate of food on the table, be able to dress and to put shoes on his son, to be able to pay for his elderly mother's surgery or his little brother's studies through this job. Wela never questions this. Wela never has a thought about what she is doing with her life, whether she has chosen the right path. He knows it's not the right way. For some reason he hides it from his own mother and friends, neighbors, fellow students, teachers. Instead of questioning himself, making the viewer understand why he has been forced to prostitute himself, which would be consistent with a person in his place, what he does is praise his sponsors, applaud how good the club has been. To him, how kind the owner of the club has been in giving him the job.
The series does not offer us lessons, which would be extracted from focusing on specific issues like these. The main character does not give hope to people in his place. Wela does not redeem herself, she does not find redemption. He does not seek redemption. But we will see in the final chapter how he has stopped offering these services to clients and focuses more on trapeze work. This way his mother can go to the club and not feel ashamed and even feel proud of her son.
Customers feel they have the right to even vent their anger, anger, frustration and dissatisfaction out loud both in the club itself and on social media if they do not feel satisfied with the treatment received by the establishment or by the host himself. , despite publicly admitting to having violated laws on prostitution.
Yes, there is sexual assault and personal invasions on Wela, but Wela cannot do anything to prevent them. The client paid and expects to receive treatment in accordance with their demands. It is evident the annoyance that Wela suffers when his dignity is trampled upon, when he finds himself exposed to others, including the groom, or because he does not like the client he got at the auction, but he cannot do anything to avoid what is happening to him. happening. The same thing should happen to any prostitute when she feels violated, sexually assaulted by the client.
Khermthis, her boyfriend, witnesses what happens to her and cannot do anything other than go against the same family business and expel the client. Khemthis would surely not act this way if he were not Wela and would then be another host. I also don't think he would act this way if he didn't have some power because he was the son of the owner of the establishment. If he were just another worker at the club, he couldn't do anything. Then his mother calls him and reproaches him for having acted in this way, affecting the business, but she quickly forgives him. It's your son. The scriptwriters are very paternalistic, huh?
Wela can do nothing to prevent sexual assaults and personal invasions. He can't do anything to avoid a drunk who insults him, someone who bites his neck. Or yes, you can do something: ask the client for permission all the time with the excuse that you need to go to the bathroom. You need to ask permission from the person who paid, and justify abandoning the client even for a few minutes in the hope that the night goes by quickly and you are finally free of the client.
The client acts like the client of any prostitute in any brothel anywhere in the world. He is the owner of the situation gained by punching bills or gulping drinks, which in this case is the same thing. The legal limits are set by the club. The sex worker cannot be a minor or be an undocumented alien or other violation of the laws. From there there is no other limit. Khemthis's actions to re-found the club seek to eliminate everything illegal, indecorous, and degrading in it, especially the client-host dynamic. Based on his actions, the club will no longer be a place for appointments and meetings for clients like those who bit and mauled Wela. It will finally be the long-awaited space of healthy acrobatics to which the same trailer and synopsis of the series summoned us before its broadcast, and even Khemthis himself will be on the trapeze.
I highly doubt that these people who are upset by my words would accept 1 percent of what happened to Wela happening to themselves or a loved one.

Prostitution "normally" requires an explicit agreement to perform sexual acts in exchange for money or other significant benefits, you say. And I put it in quotes normally. We have all been able to see the actions described in the series starting with episode 3. The consent you are talking about is when what is agreed upon is between the client and the prostitute, an agreement between both parties, and that is not the one that takes place in the series. This type of consent and agreement has been changing, especially since the emergence of social networks and the Internet, but it is still maintained in classic brothels and especially on any corner of the public street.
In the case of the series there is a club whose owners are the ones who receive the money paid by the customer when buying the drinks. Of course, the host benefits from this money. Wela does not choose the client. Wela does not make any agreements with the client at any time. He even goes so far as to not know it, since he can act by telephone, as happened in episode 3. In it, Wela is carried on his shoulders like a winner of the auction to the client's car outside the premises and he is fired so that he can Go spend the night with the client wherever he chooses. The involvement of the club in the actions of the hosts is evident, the involvement of the club in the host-client dynamic is evident. It provides the premises, provides security and protection to the hosts, charges for the services so that there is no direct prostitute-client transaction.
Wela was taken to the car outside the bar. That is in the case in which it coincided that the one who paid for it was Khemthis. And as an audience we liked that they had their night of sex. But Wela himself has had to accept the client, no matter who it is, who won the auction. Wela has to accept the client who has paid the most money for his company. And he has been groped and kissed and bruised and bitten on the neck that he has been forced to hide the bite from his mother and even from his boyfriend himself, who gets jealous at all times.
Why hasn't the same thing happened to Seiji, for example, as to Wela? Seiji are always women who buy him a drink and they don't even want them for themselves, because they feel satisfied with photographing him with Ken.
If you are interested in the subject, I would suggest you study the Entertainment Places Law of Thailand, passed in 1966, a law that attributes responsibility to the owner of certain types of entertainment establishments if prostitution occurs on the premises, which makes them criminally responsible.
Sex workers have feared the risks of working independently for decades. This is how they agree to exchange their freedom for the relative security that comes with permanent employment in companies such as karaoke, massage parlors, brothels, hotels, massage parlors, restaurants, saunas, hostess bars, go-go bars and breweries. These places seek to circumvent the Thai law that prohibits prostitution. These places can be registered as normal, legal businesses. Thus, when police raids occur and with these the arrests of sex workers in these premises, the Thai Police generally treat the act of prostitution as an exchange between the sex worker and the client, and this frees the owner of the company of said sexual exchange considering that he was not involved. Only the law acts on the owners of these legal establishments when they violate laws other than prostitution, for example, if underage workers or illegal immigrants are arrested.
Other laws also operate in Thailand, such as the Public Nuisance Laws. These laws are also used by authorities against prostitution. However, the practice of prostitution is tolerated. Primary reason? The authorities have financial interests in prostitution in each locality. We see how in each raid the owner of the club calls and talks to someone and assures that she will pay whatever amount to avoid the closure of the premises or new raids. The series fails here, since it is supposed to be calling an important politician, a high-ranking official in the Police or Government to intercede. Due to their reaction, the response is positive for their benefit, but there is no follow-up to the issue, the Police raid the place again, they finally close it, the entire case has exploded through complaints from clients who express their anger at paying for have the host as company throughout the night and was only able to enjoy it for two hours due to having been expelled from the club by the host's boyfriend whom he then accused of abuse and economic damages for losing the money paid for services not received (here is Another problem in the script, if prostitution is illegal, how the client publishes on the internet that he paid to be accompanied by a host. Since it is illegal, he cannot say that he paid to receive sexual services, well let's say it again: for sex it is not necessary. reach penetration.

Thank you for your comment, it reinforces my opinion. Wela's scholarship is withdrawn for being involved in an illegal, shady business and considered to have shameful, defamatory, degrading and immoral content. When Khemthis asks the professor (episode 7, minute 20:56-22:05) to reconsider withdrawing the scholarship, the professor explains that Khemthis himself is a target for the university to take some disciplinary action against him, but "the University can NOT condemn you because it is your family business. You may not be involved. But for Wela to work there and get paid there, at the club, it is difficult to avoid. The quotation marks are the teacher's verbatim word.
No matter how much Khemthis explains that it is "a job of service," the professor wields a truth: How does Khemthis know? How can Khemthis convince people, including the teaching staff, the University authorities and other students, otherwise about what is said about Wela and the club on social media?
We cannot ignore the context. There are many clubs in Thailand where prostitution is practiced and where scandals are frequently uncovered. Khemthis cannot prove to the teacher or anyone else that Wela does not carry out illegal and indecent work such as that of prostitutes or escorts in which they provide sexual services without penetration, such as allowing touching, touching, kissing, bites on the neck by the client.
Khemthis has no way of denying the obvious, since Wela works in a club that has been revealed to society through different publications by club clients who claim and demonstrate in videos that they paid to spend an entire night with Wela and could only stay for 2 hours because her boyfriend, the son of the owner of the club, took them out of the premises and prevented them from continuing to enjoy the services of the hosts despite paying for them.
That is why Khemthis only has to tell the professor that we have to "change the perspectives of people in society" so that people can then accept and understand Wela's work. In other words, Khemthis does not defend the idea that the work that Wela does be eliminated as illegal and immoral, but rather asks that society see that work with different eyes, from another perspective. Let's not go out of context: Thai society today discusses normalizing prostitution.
Defenders of the project to legalize sex work seek to eliminate criminalization of sex workers. As their labor rights are not recognized by Thai authorities who consider prostitution illegal, this has deprived those involved in this work of basic labor rights and legal protections enjoyed by other workers.
That is, sex workers are more vulnerable to health risks, harassment, exploitation and violence, since their rights are not recognized as prostitution is illegal. In this sense, I assume that the series seeks to promote debate on this topic.
Finally Khemthis invites the professor to go to the club where, from the, let's say, refounding of the club that he is carrying out, when Wela's mother and the professor and everyone else go to the club they will not find a single auction or payment of alcoholic beverages to hosts to keep company for clients who feel worthy of the services for which they have paid.

Surely I am more concerned about other, much more important issues than such a superficial issue of whether or not others like how I write.

Prostitution is a term that comes from the Latin prostitutĭo. This is the activity carried out by the person who charges for maintaining intimate relationships with other individuals. Prostitution, therefore, consists of having sex in exchange for payment. For its part, the definition of "sexual activity" or "having sex" is defined as an activity that requires physical contact, but does not necessarily have to lead to intercourse. You can have sex without penetration, as is the case with oral sex, sex without penetration, etc.). No, the hosts have not had penetrative sex, at no time have I said or even implied this, but they have had sex in exchange for financial benefits in the form of drinks. The grabbing, groping, reaching under clothing or biting the neck with its subsequent mark that Wela has received from clients who have just paid for it is not "attentive conversation."

The mere fact that Wela has been hiding from her mother and everyone else, such as university classmates, teachers, neighbors, friends..., everything related to her work for years, is the strongest proof that her work involves both illegalities and a shameful, slanderous, degrading, immoral content. He only recognized it when forced by circumstances. In such an interconnected world, how could Wela ignore that the truth would soon explode at some point? How could he ignore that he ran the risk of being exposed in that way to the shame of his mother and being a source of gossip for everyone?
Wela has prioritized work at the club over her university studies, to the point of losing her university scholarship.
Today we know that Wela has had to practice a job known as "the oldest in the world" in order to obtain the money that would allow him to pay off the debt left by his father to the creditors. I only regret that this whole phenomenon of prostitution has been approached so lightly, in a festive tone, in which we will never get to know the human suffering behind the fact that a person decides to enter the world of prostitution. And I understand that the creators have decided to face the issue in this way so lightly, so superficially, and not with crudeness, with realism, as the problem deserves to be exposed, because otherwise the series would be moving away from the BL genre to become an LGBT+ drama with greater depth, realism and complexity than this other genre would propose.
I also regret that the majority of fans of the genre prefer to ignore the obvious, and even ignore the label that indicates that one of the contents of the series is "Scandal", and instead of joining the debate and reflection proposed by the creators and producers to comment on whether Japan looks good in a sequin suit or whether Dai should touch up his beard frequently.
For the rest, I reiterate, it is welcome that social and human issues are explored in BLs, even if in a frivolous and superficial way. As I said in a comment last week: "You start somewhere."

When Wela's mother accepts Khemtis's invitation and goes to the club that day, Wela gets on the trapeze and even gives us the quadruple somersault, one of the most complex tricks in the world of trapeze. That day he cannot be auctioned or serving clients because otherwise the poor lady will have a heart attack. Can anyone imagine if just that day a customer bites their neck and puts his hand under their clothes after having paid for 1000 drinks, that is 370 thousand baht?

[Eng Sub] We Are คือเรารักกัน | EP.3 [4/4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmSJpEl8Gc0

Episode 1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hgzmogTudc

MDL and other platforms make a mistake by labeling Tact Igarashi as Kazu. The character of Kazu is played by Konosuke Furuya, while Tact Igarashi plays Shinji Matsumoto or simply Shin, Kazu's photographer boyfriend. The character of Takashi is played by actor Kazuki Kawakami.
The director, screenwriter and editor of the film is Daisuke Shigaya.
Please, if someone could help verify and correct the error I would appreciate it. Thank you.

Hello. I haven't seen 'Love is Beautiful' (2010). Is it BL? I don't think I've ever heard of this series. There are not many intense emotions and deep dialogues in BL. It should not be the interest of the creators, as it surely is of the actors. They are superficial, light dramas, for an audience that does not ask for anything else. That's why when we come across a series like this, even though we don't stop liking it, we criticize it.
I have been involved in a debate for weeks (which is not a debate either, since there are only offenses from the other side), for pointing out that the series shows prostitution, a topic that has not been touched on in ThaiBL, much less that the characters work as prostitutes. main. The series is 'Deep Night'. I don't know if you're watching it, if you're interested in seeing it, or what you think of it. MDL labels it as a “scandal”, and some users have not realized this. And while I say that it is good that ThaiBL explore complex social issues, such as suicide, incest, prostitution, etc., there are those who deny the obvious, declare that there is no prostitution because there is no penetration, and take my comments and reviews like a personal attack. When it is a series with a boy older than the other, younger than the other, they come with religious, moralistic speeches, which do not recommend watching because it is a series about pedophilia, and things like that, without thinking that the series shows a problem reality of society, and calls for reflection and generating debate among the members of society.
Many of these series are not labeled as BL, but for some the fact that they are two boys kissing is already a BL and when the story becomes complex they criticize it and even abandon it with absurd comments, because they have not realized that it is not The story is light and insubstantial, and the conflicts presented exceed the framework of simple BL.
I watch social dramas, romantic dramas whose protagonists are two men, or young men or adolescents. I started watching films and series with LGBT+ themes and almost recently I discovered Asian BL.
I understand perfectly what you are telling me, and I share your opinion.
Television content reproduces the socially and culturally idealized sexual and gender approach. And Thai BLs do not escape this reality.
First there has to be an advance in society so that it then reaches TV and these spaces are aimed at the consumption of the “heterosexual community. It is heteropatriarchal logic, the recurring episode of TV series.

When there are no arguments, when it is not possible to accept and recognize the obvious, when a film criticism is taken as a personal attack, but something must be said...