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A Psychological Thriller, rather than a Horror Story
Dead Friend Forever frightened me, that is why I kept it in my "Plan to Watch" for months. Yesterday, I got the courage to watch it. To be honest, I like watching horror movies, but with Thailand's standard with horror films, it made me scared to watch it.
Dead Friend Forever started with a group of friends vacationing in their friend's house, which is located in the forest. They organized that vacation since their friend Jin is going abroad to study film there. When they got there, they partied. They drank and took drugs. Since they do not have an internet connection, they got bored. They planned to watch films. While choosing what film to watch, they saw a storage drive. The other members argued to not watch it, but the other members continued pursuing to watch it. Someone said that drive contains a short film they made when they were in high school. While watching, the friends who are not part of the short film asked who is the one wearing a mask. The others responded that person is "Non" and that person is already missing. Then since Jin is taking film, they decided to recreate the short film.
The story revolves with the short film and how the story of that short film is happening in real life, or in other words, they said that watching that short film is cursed. The story is good, the plot twists (Yes, I can say that there are few) are plot twisting. The story talks about revenge, bullying, harassments, play and use of power, and mental health illness. The more episodes you watch, the more you will understand what and why it is happening. It not horror, but rather a psychological thriller. The consequences of actions that happened, happened for a reason. Many people might argue that the end is a sad ending, but for me, it is not. Just find out what happened in the end, I will not disclose it.
Characters:
White - He did not deserve what happened to him. He is innocent and did not do anything for that story to become like that.
Por - The sad reality of being a child of a politician. The way his father's power got into his head, it is so disappointing. Such a spoiled brat.
Top - I do not really remember him and his background, to be honest. The only thing that I remember from him is him becoming the masked killer in few episodes and being hypnotized.
Fluke - The things that you will just for your parents to become proud of you. Yes, he did not contribute much to the bullying, but doing nothing is also equals to contributing to the bullies. And the way his actions become so bad when he was under pressure, wow!
Tan - Another scenario of what are the things that you will do for love. The way that his story is what I'll consider as the main plot twist of this story. His character is really great.
Tee - No one can make me like his character so much. Everything that happened here is because of his wrongdoing. He deserves that ending so much.
Jin - If you really love a person, are you going to do what Jin did? That action of him made a big impact on the consequences of the things that happened. Him studying film major made so much sense, because of the background of this story. If you know, you know what I mean.
Phee - Another scenario of "I will never like your character." I get why his character is what was considered as the main character. But why will you do all of that just for you to not stick to the plan in the end? I really hate him so much. He is also one of the reasons why the story became so tragic.
Non - What will happen to a person when he is encountering so many problems at once? From personal problems, house problems, school problems, and peer problems. When he just wants to make friends, but he was just used by evil people.
In totality, Dead Friend Forever did not disappoint. It made me tremble a little. It made me overthink of the things that will happen in the next episodes. The story is great. The acting and the casts are all great. This series did its best to portray such a different and unique genre of Boys Love series. It is recommendable to watch, but I do not think that I will watch it again.
Dead Friend Forever started with a group of friends vacationing in their friend's house, which is located in the forest. They organized that vacation since their friend Jin is going abroad to study film there. When they got there, they partied. They drank and took drugs. Since they do not have an internet connection, they got bored. They planned to watch films. While choosing what film to watch, they saw a storage drive. The other members argued to not watch it, but the other members continued pursuing to watch it. Someone said that drive contains a short film they made when they were in high school. While watching, the friends who are not part of the short film asked who is the one wearing a mask. The others responded that person is "Non" and that person is already missing. Then since Jin is taking film, they decided to recreate the short film.
The story revolves with the short film and how the story of that short film is happening in real life, or in other words, they said that watching that short film is cursed. The story is good, the plot twists (Yes, I can say that there are few) are plot twisting. The story talks about revenge, bullying, harassments, play and use of power, and mental health illness. The more episodes you watch, the more you will understand what and why it is happening. It not horror, but rather a psychological thriller. The consequences of actions that happened, happened for a reason. Many people might argue that the end is a sad ending, but for me, it is not. Just find out what happened in the end, I will not disclose it.
Characters:
White - He did not deserve what happened to him. He is innocent and did not do anything for that story to become like that.
Por - The sad reality of being a child of a politician. The way his father's power got into his head, it is so disappointing. Such a spoiled brat.
Top - I do not really remember him and his background, to be honest. The only thing that I remember from him is him becoming the masked killer in few episodes and being hypnotized.
Fluke - The things that you will just for your parents to become proud of you. Yes, he did not contribute much to the bullying, but doing nothing is also equals to contributing to the bullies. And the way his actions become so bad when he was under pressure, wow!
Tan - Another scenario of what are the things that you will do for love. The way that his story is what I'll consider as the main plot twist of this story. His character is really great.
Tee - No one can make me like his character so much. Everything that happened here is because of his wrongdoing. He deserves that ending so much.
Jin - If you really love a person, are you going to do what Jin did? That action of him made a big impact on the consequences of the things that happened. Him studying film major made so much sense, because of the background of this story. If you know, you know what I mean.
Phee - Another scenario of "I will never like your character." I get why his character is what was considered as the main character. But why will you do all of that just for you to not stick to the plan in the end? I really hate him so much. He is also one of the reasons why the story became so tragic.
Non - What will happen to a person when he is encountering so many problems at once? From personal problems, house problems, school problems, and peer problems. When he just wants to make friends, but he was just used by evil people.
In totality, Dead Friend Forever did not disappoint. It made me tremble a little. It made me overthink of the things that will happen in the next episodes. The story is great. The acting and the casts are all great. This series did its best to portray such a different and unique genre of Boys Love series. It is recommendable to watch, but I do not think that I will watch it again.
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