When I first heard about this movie, I thought earnestly about making the effort to catch it on big screen. I was apprehensive of it being another typical gay soap opera chinese movie aka Bishonen and Lan Yu..Most times these chinese gay movies had not wavered far away from portraying gay relationships as tragedies to happen, I sort of gave up wanting to catch anymore of them. In my view, directors who tries to portray in the alternative lifestyle had fared palely in bringing out problems faced other than the big old sleazy sleep arounds and heart breaks leading to dearth (ie Self inflicted by gay sucidal individuals or some miraculous accident that kills 1 party off when the stone can't sink further).
I was delighted to find this show quite under-rated and had touched on something very different. Perhaps about something that I'd felt in life. Might be the reason why I could feel the connection. The actors are cute.. very cute indeed. and the actress.. hmm.. none of that please.. Their acting were without question, refined and brings out the depth in each character, no doubt as what the director as intended. For more details please refer to the original website or grab a copy of the movie from me.
Story goes like this. Gay boy meets Lonely boy (sexuality uncertain even though he initiated sex when drunk when the other guy threaten discontinuity of friendship), grows up together over the years.. went to the same university. Meets Short Girl. Short Girl like Gay boy, found out he's gay, dumps him for Lonely boy, who reciprocated. Gay boy found out and was furious, confronted them. Lonely boy admits sincerely in love with Short Girl, Short Girl wants them to hang out together like last time (for whatever perverse reason go figures.. ). Gay boy threaten to leave them alone, Lonely boy was devasted and while drunk initiated sex with Gay boy. Gay boy was pleasantly surprised, yet confused and decided still to leave them. All three manage to end up at the beach where Gay boy tells Lonely boy all his feelings and waits to see whether Lonely boy still wants him as his best friend. Lonely boy admits finally that Gay boy will always be his good friend no matter what.
What so different about this show, is the director's highlighting another faint dimension to a gay relationship. It's what I call the "I want more than Best Friend" Syndrome. When only 1 of the 2 is gay and when the other may be str8 or otherwise confuse, and yet friendship may be more important to him, while the other gets tormented with the "Can't have him" predicament. When will friendship becomes less important in having him? I like the part about them when they were young, when their School teacher had to make Gay boy promise an innocent promise, that he should be a friend to Lonely boy and be a guide to keep him out of trouble. And from this pact of friendship brews many other complications down the journey of their lives. Lonely boy was too lonely to forego this chance of having a friend finally. He was willing to do anything. Whereas Gay boy develops a feeling beyond the boundaries of the pact he had, and got more than he bargained for.
The show had been shone a very refreshing and yet intriguing part of a gay-str8 friendship. The bitter sweet ending can be a bit puzzling. It's really up to the person watching the show to figure what had happened after that. Personally, I think they will be continuing their friendship and eventually, Lonely Boy would probably get married to somebody nice and Gay Boy would find his Prince Charming. As for the Short Short Girl... she will grow old, bitter and tormented by every str8 man around her becoming Gay. kekekekkekekekkeek KIDDING LAR!!!
Semplice Simon
