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Wouldn't have watched it if I knew about certain story parts beforehand
If I had known there would be a convincing rape allegation, I wouldn't have started to watch the series in the first place. Shortly after the alleged rape is uncovered, so many things happened that I truly got upset about.Like how Mild is shocked and runs away and his best friends don't manage to gab him? Like...really? He isn't running at first, just walking absentmindedly, then he gets away, being in such a condition? Nope...
The Mild cannot be found for several days and instead of filing a missing person's report of some sort (don't know how such things are handled in Thailand), his friends and family just sit around and "worry" and do nothing?
Then Mild return to resume the rehearsals for the romantic theater project in which he has to play the main role together with the person he suspects of raping him? And all his friends just watch and let the alleged rapist be near him? What the heck is going on?
Then finally, Knight gets the chance to tell the story and what "really" happened the night of the alleged rape and apparently there was no rape? Mild even had a short flash of memory about the rape, just like he had suppressed the memory (which would totally be understandable after such a traumatic event). But when Knight tells him that there was no rape, he just believes him? I don't get it. At all! Also the way the (married) big brother told Mild that it was not his (the married big brother's) position to decide if a rape deserved foregiveness (Well no, but suggesting that Mild should consider forgiving the man the believes raped him....no, just get away from the rapist!!!) and that everything happens for a reason (that's victim blaming, it implies that Mild somehow deserved to be raped) and advises him to go back and hear Knight's explanation (if you really think that Knight raped your little brother, you wouldn't let him go back to such a person, just...no!). And then the big brother dares to say that the good thing is that Mild now knows that everyone loves and cares about him because they are worried about him. Like...what kind of friends and family are they if Mild didn't know up until then?
The plot twist about the attempted murder, I didn't see that coming, I have to admit. I thought that Mayo would be the fuel of some jealousy between Kan and Per to fill some more screentime. What a nice surprise!
No offense to the actors, I liked what their work, factoring out what they apparently had to depict. I also liked the filming. But the story was a complete fuck up.
It's a shame there were no tags warning about the alleged rape. I probably wouldn't have watched the series or would have been able to digest it better if I had known beforehand that the rape didn't actually happen.
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