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I Told Sunset About You 2020
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
As the Wikipedia page for this show states, this is LGBTQIA+ cinema masquerading as a boy's love drama. It really pushes the boy's love genre into more arthouse film terrain through a keen attention to cinematography, scenography and acting, as well as a sensitivity to narrative and sharp understanding of how repressed desire propels people to behave in mundane yet charged ways. Unlike most BL, it didn't take the easy route; it picked the route that felt truest to its…
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Compartment No. 6 2021
what do we owe each other, but an ounce of wilfulness, attention, and a willingness to help each other reach our destinations, no matter how foolish or incomprehensible they may be to each other? isn't that love? isn't that love good even if only for a small fraction of our lives? nobody in this film apologised for who they were. nobody blamed someone else for their differences. I'm reminded of what is wilful, earnest, petulant, childish, childlike and stubborn in myself, I'm reminded that we don't have to be legible to one another in order to be loved for what we are.
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