IF ML & FL are going to get back together, it requires completely dismantling what they've built and rebuilding it from scratch - not as childhood sweethearts clinging to a timeline, but as 2 flawed individuals who actually choose each other now, with all their messy insecurities exposed. Otherwise, trying to force a marriage out of a decade-long habit might just be the loneliest trap of all. The question is of cos, how they gonna do that? 😅
At the end of the day, true love is about seeing someone as an equal and respecting their strength. Loving someone out of pity though, usually comes from a place of looking down or wanting to "fix" someone. Am I right? It flattens the other person into their struggles and forgets they have anything to offer back.
Watching ML still hung up over the FL who cheated on him gave me major flashbacks to my cheating ex of 5 years. Honestly, one of the only thoughts that kept me sane back then was realizing: Who am I to think they don’t deserve each other? It didn't take me long to realize that losing him was actually one of the best things that ever happened to my life. Trash taking itself out is a blessing.
Not a single word spoken for almost seven minutes. Instead, they let their eyes and bodies do the talking. The silence broken only when Wan breathed, "I'm close".
I see it as less about him "liking" HJ in a casual way and more about how they naturally connect beneath the surface. GW is so locked down. So guarded, but HJ is the only one who actually pierces through that armor. They mirror each other's isolation in a way that makes that pull inevitable, even if GW spends half his time trying to fight it. If you still wanna measure the likeness, I supposed there is in some degree? Otherwise he wouldn't allow HJ to be so close.
The Bank and Copter pairing should have come with a warning label. As I've mentioned in one of my recent comments…
For sure. This kinda casting is quite a high-wire act. If not done well, we can feel the imbalance. That’s why it’s so satisfying when it pays off the way it does here.
I'm just going to gush about the acting for a bit, but particularly Bank. I might be just a little bit in love…
The Bank and Copter pairing should have come with a warning label. As I've mentioned in one of my recent comments here, the veteran x fresh energy intoxicates that I worry my asthma will return. As a seasoned actor, Bank is the anchor here, and he's providing a sturdy emotional spine to Copter, giving him space so he can play off that intensity, raw and unjaded.
When the music turns slightly ominous when he pins him down, nice. Yeah usually SA in BL is framed as spontaneous…
that scene when they fell off the bed, after he said "that hurts" then felt the urge to kiss Yok, he was doing the push and pull with himself, that alone gave me the chills. so good
1. Noam Cohen - Just For You
2. Tom Meira Armony - Can’t Get It (Out of My Head)
(you can find both on YT and Spotify)
For the one at the bar (bday party scene), wassit when he was eating the strawberry?
I felt like an intruder. 👀

Borahae! 💜