I half-dropped this originally, because I don't care about the leads that much (or marriage, for that matter) and the story goes nowhere, but when I was looking for something feel good, I picked it back up and am now watching pretty much solely for Syn and Nuer (Khondiao is cute too) and the empty-headed lightness and low stakes of it all.
I half-dropped this originally, because I don't care about the leads that much (or marriage, for that matter) and the story goes nowhere, but when I was looking for something feel good, I picked it back up and am now watching pretty much solely for Syn and Nuer (Khondiao is cute too) and the empty-headed lightness and low stakes of it all.
Great look at contemporary queer Japan in all its diversity and perversity and a subtle critique of the way queerness has been airbrushed and prepackaged for mass consumption at the expense of its most vulnerable (and exciting) members.
I just watched this for a second time. It was already in my top ten gay-themed films and it just moved up to the…
But about "millions" enjoying it. You're talking about good timing (near marriage equality), good marketing, and good box office numbers. Most of the people here in Taiwan I spoke to did not describe their experience as "enjoyment."
Absolutely fantastic. Without giving specific details or spoilers, suffice it to say that the body-swap motif is not used to "straighten out" (visually or socially) the same-sex romance but to explore it psychologically and spiritually, and this is definitely still a BL by the end. (I know this is almost spoiler territory, but I want to encourage anyone who's hesitant to check out this amazing, very heartfelt series in all its genderfuck, queer, and life- and love-affirming glory and beauty.)
Omg whenever I hear "CGI" I'm like thinking that they'll either butcher it or it'll look decent 😭😭
Saw it before its premiere in a private screening with director. Truly horrendous. I've tried to repress most of it, but if I remember, even the aspect ratio seems to change (could be wrong, but it seemed to have so many narrative holes and technical/camera issues).
Please, save your time. Buy the photo book or watch the MV instead. This has... what exactly? A couple (sort of)…
On the bright side, if THIS is what it takes to make a box office hit, you too could make one! I could too. Hell, a baby or seagull perhaps, armed with a camera, could. So, at least that part is encouraging!
Please, save your time. Buy the photo book or watch the MV instead.
This has... what exactly? A couple (sort of) hot shots and a decent song, and that's it. Go watch Eternal Summer for a complex, sexy, queer summer coming-of-age tale rather than this dumpster fire of a film. The editing, the acting, that CGI bird (?!?!?!), the extended ad for Quebec (a funding precondition apparently, but not an excuse for awful writing, delivery, and storytelling) that's pretending to be a conclusion... Watch literally anything else: actual gay porn, a Microsoft screen saver...
Taiwan has too many actual great films, including queer films, to do this with your life.
Surprisingly, perhaps, this is a film about a poet and a boy, featuring a cameo by doughnuts, in which the poet and the boy make the right decision in the end.
like you can speak swaheles fluently if given a line to practice
Criticizing the translating, writing, editing, and direction (to the extent there was any of this in that opening bit), as I've said three times now, not an actor's accent or even delivery necessarily.
Like, if you're not going to invest in these things as a show runner, why even add a messy bit of dialogue in a language no one on your team seems to have down enough to write and direct for? For "realism"? (Never mind that BL, particularly in Thailand, is not exactly a realistic genre.) Has the opposite effect, ironically, by taking the viewer out of it, despite the occasional hilarity of the near-gibberish subs and writing.
I'm saying (a) they're right (landlords are bad) and (b) I literally had no idea what either actor was saying during the English dialogue at the beginning (not because of accents but because the writing was mostly incomprehensible).
A very accurate representation of what absolute pieces of shit landlords are, and a not-so-accurate representation of how English and Italian are spoken...
This has... what exactly? A couple (sort of) hot shots and a decent song, and that's it. Go watch Eternal Summer for a complex, sexy, queer summer coming-of-age tale rather than this dumpster fire of a film. The editing, the acting, that CGI bird (?!?!?!), the extended ad for Quebec (a funding precondition apparently, but not an excuse for awful writing, delivery, and storytelling) that's pretending to be a conclusion... Watch literally anything else: actual gay porn, a Microsoft screen saver...
Taiwan has too many actual great films, including queer films, to do this with your life.
Like, if you're not going to invest in these things as a show runner, why even add a messy bit of dialogue in a language no one on your team seems to have down enough to write and direct for? For "realism"? (Never mind that BL, particularly in Thailand, is not exactly a realistic genre.) Has the opposite effect, ironically, by taking the viewer out of it, despite the occasional hilarity of the near-gibberish subs and writing.