Kamisetang Papel (2021)

So bad it's good.

This is so awful, but in the most hilarious way. This vies with The Room for best worst thing ever made. If you're here for a great storyline and acting, run as far and fast as you can. But if you want a story that makes no sense, with melodramatic scenes of irrelvant side characters dying of grief, then you are in the right place.

It's sort of weird that there's a fairly graphic fantasy sequence (nothing is actually shown, but what happens without the camera shining on it goes really far by BL standards and is actually really hot) but the actual kiss is the most fake I've ever seen.

And the music. There's a scene in the finale where the type of music that's playing in the final boss battle of a fantasy game accompanies a tiny paper shirt floating down a stream for like 5 minutes, and then a main character spends abut 5 minutes trying to unfold it (because it's soaked and falling apart) to the same music. which somehow reveals the feelings of the other character even though the guy unfolding it is the one who wrote the message inside. He then runs up the 3 ft-wide stream forever instead of just jogging alongside (maybe he wanted a cardio workout?) to get to someone who managed to drown in six inches of water. Sometimes the romantic music is so loud you expect Celine Dion to jump out from behind a bush.

There's a scene where they do the ultimate BL trope of tripping and falling into each other (can we form a committee and get a petition signed to retire that ridiculous and spectacularly overused POS nonsense?) - later there's an episode-long slo-mo memory sequence reviewing all their interaction where you see that the actor is laughing through it, so at least he recognizes how stupid it is.

Anyway, this is so bizarre and melodramatic that if you have a drink before watching and view it in the right mindset, you'll be very entertained. Maybe watch it with a bunch of friends and make it a drinking game. Whenever anyone shouts "WHY!?!?!?" and pounds their fists, or rolls around in the sand sobbing, you have to take a shot.

I'd kind of like to see the smaller actor in something else - he's got an uncommon sex appeal. He's not hard to look at for sure. In the sex scene, his 'come-hither' look would put any porn actor to shame. (Again, it's not a porn scene. You don't see anything, but you know what's going on.) In any case, I would certainly not go thither.

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