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A film that shows the process of recognizing and understanding homosexuals through the eyes of a man who hates them. Young Taek is a high school student. One day, a boy visits his house. It turns out that this boy is his father's lover. He can't believe that his father is gay but eventually accepts the fact. After he graduates from high school and attends university, he meets a senior classmate who falls in love with him. The senior classmate harasses him in the name of love. After he goes to serve in the army, he is sexually harassed by his sergeant who has a girlfriend. Young Taek has been homophobic, but after meeting different people, he reconsiders life and love. (Source: Gagaoolala) Edit Translation

  • English
  • 中文(台灣)
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • dansk
  • Country: South Korea
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Oct 17, 2017
  • Duration: 1 hr. 24 min.
  • Score: 5.9 (scored by 111 users)
  • Ranked: #69140
  • Popularity: #11400
  • Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

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Jilly
4 people found this review helpful
Nov 9, 2020
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Overall 5.0
Story 5.5
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 2.5
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Had potential

This movie had potential of being what the synopsis told us about and the potential of being quite the good movie that depicts real relationships and tell the inner struggle and changing perspective of a homophobic man. But it sadly didn’t come through. The actors did a pretty good job with the working material but I couldn’t get past that this movie had potential that it didn’t deliver. In a conservative country like Korea that are moving forward with the modern world and it’s growing perspective of the LGBTQ community and its workings to a part of decent human rights all over the world, this movie had the potential of depicting the struggle and also the fear that comes with homophobia, and that with the will of understanding you can come a long way.

Although I understand the ML’s reasons of homophobia, since he had the bad experience after the other with gay men, but it just left a bad taste in a mouth since it really did the oppositive of what it could have done. Would it be too hard to show that gay love is just regular normal love like any other love? At least one positive experience of a gay man would have left the movie in a completely different light, and would have made it hugely more realistic. Two examples of the gay men in this movie depicted having romantic feelings for the ML and although lust can do a lot with your mind, I find it poor in taste that they choose to make both of these men blackmail, sexually harass and at one part of the movie hint towards actual rape of the ML. These two also showed very little understanding or realization of what they had actually done to the ML too, which really irked me.

What gave me little hope that this movie will not be just another in a growing list of movies where gay men (and women sometimes) are used as the villains, or individuals that can’t control their sexual urges and instead rapes or sexually harasses the ones that they are attracted too, no matter the sexual orientation on the man they are attracted to, was the end credits. The ML, although, resentful towards the men that had traumatized him (which is perfectly understandable) still thought that he would still try to understand gay men. I applaud the ML for not getting bitter due to all the bad experiences and actual hints of rape, sexual harassment and usage of seniority that he was victims of, and still trying to understand them. I however, do not applaud this movie. It’s watchable, but not as entertainment, and not as a good representation of a BL movie or LGBTQ, but as an education on the progression of hopefully more movies that actually depicts this concern right.

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ilovebl_1212
3 people found this review helpful
May 26, 2021
Completed 3
Overall 3.5
Story 1.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
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Pretty main lead but nothing else

So, It was an absolutly horrible movie. Filled with harassment, mental abuse and r*pe in parts. I was actually so shocked by the ending when he said he could understand gay men now. Like what? It made all the harassment okay? Like just because you are gay doesn't mean you go around abusing people. Like this movie was so dumb I can't even. It was terrible. I wish I hadn't watched it. It was pure disgusting at times as well. I hate it so much. like he just kept having bad experiences one after the other. They kept coming and he had to deal with it. Horrible ending as well. Horrible, don't watch at all. The only good thing about this movie was the main guy was very cute and handsome at times. That's it.

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Details

  • Movie: Homo phobia
  • Country: South Korea
  • Release Date: Oct 17, 2017
  • Duration: 1 hr. 24 min.
  • Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

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  • Score: 5.9 (scored by 111 users)
  • Ranked: #69140
  • Popularity: #11400
  • Watchers: 532

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