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This is terrible. Story is lame. Everyone's already gay and out so there's no tension or suspense. Comedic elements are poorly written and weak and the acting's bad. I'm out after about 20 minutes. lol Enjoy!

I think that's what makes it boring. Everyone's gay already and out about it so there's no dramatic tension. And the attempts at comedy are so lame they don't make up for what's lacking. Does a movie or series in which everyone's already proudly gay and out of the closet even qualify as a BL? I don't think so. It's just a gay-themed story.

Wow, I was all turned around on the time/storyline. I thought the boy being bullied so brutally was Li Xiang in his younger school years right up until he gave the note to Xia Zhe for his father. Oops. Don't know how he won the costume design award. That getup at the assembly was horrible. lol

So much of this was wonderful up until the last couple of episodes when it all got rushed to a conclusion. How sick do you have to be to trap your kid in the house with razor fucking wire? And how lame is it to imagine the two lovers would just go, oh well, guess you should honor your insanely hateful father's wishes and I will go away? No way. Xia Zhe would have found his way out of that prison with Li Xiang's help and off they'd go. Also ridiculous to think that Xia Zhe would get married to placate a crazy person waving a pistol around the living room threatening to kill whomever the gun happened to be pointed at. I hate when super-weak plotting and not-believable character choices spoil the vibe of what until then was an exceptional tale. If you want to keep the lovers apart, then do it believably.

It was a mistake to cast the older versions of the characters with different actors, especially when they look NOTHING like the younger actors. We are talking about 20 years here, right? Better to go with the same actors and some top-notch makeup people to age them a bit. Yes, we change as we age but we don't turn into completely different bodies with no resemblance to our earlier selves. Meanwhile, the evil father seemed to not age at all, except with his Alzheimers getting worse.

You said "well, pedophilia?" Implying that that is what their second-half relationship would have been. 35 and 15 is NOT pedophilia to anyone with a working brain. If they wanted to proceed to be together with her as a much younger woman, all they would have had to do was wait three years or until whatever the age of full adulthood is there, and then either be together openly or even marry. But my take is that both of their souls are gay/male and they don't want to be together as man and woman, but as man/man. I do wish the movie had shared with us a little about their decision-making regarding the drastic step they took at the end. How could they be so sure they would immediately reincarnate as male/male of the same age, or assume they would reincarnate in the same place at the same time? Without some more exposition as to how they were so sure of how things would go, it seems the best option would be to be together as they are now and make the best of a less-than-perfect situation.

But that young actress as Liu so thoroughly convinced me that she is Dew that I totally bought into that aspect of the show. She is an amazing actor and so very beautiful too. I want to say again that the moment when she ran and leapt up into Pob's arms at the train station is one of the most thrilling/emotional in all of BL-dom. For a second I almost couldn't breathe.

Finally, please take your passive-aggressive put-down in telling me to "calm down" and shove it. That's the type of side-eye insult many commenters use when they want to imply that someone who disagrees with them is somehow out of control or too emotional to be thinking straight. I'm neither of those things, thanks.

Yes, which is the moral dilemma they face in the second half. So what? What's your point? Lots of good movies include uncomfortable moral dilemmas, that's what drama is. geez.

SPOILERS BELOW:

The commenters who whine about this being pedophilia and other bullshit seriously just need to stop watching movies at all. Good god, I just finished watching this and sobbed as I have for only a few movies in my entire life. The beauty and profundity of the two of them gradually discovering who she was what they had a chance to once again be to each other was absolutely magical and deeply, deeply moving. When she ran and jumped into his arms at the train station I completely saw that it was Dew wrapping himself around Pob; their joy was breath-taking. I was ugly-crying so hard my dog looked up at me from her nap and remembered her human is a little nuts. lol

Their situation and dilemma was SUPPOSED TO MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE. How the hell do you think the two characters felt about finding each other again after 23 years through reincarnation? Art challenges your assumptions and forces your out of your comfort zone sometimes. Great art may make you anxious for a full hour as this film did to me...this was almost perfectly superb. I gave it a 9/10.

I wish there had been a bit more astonishment and wonder from Pob as he slowly came to know what was going on and who she was. After he got to that realization the acting was great, but it seems to me you'd be more freaked out than that as you gradually realize the love of your life was back IN your life for a second time. He seemed to take it all a bit too easily in stride. :) But other than that, I think this is one of the best BLs there is. And to think I put it off for a year because of idiotic comments about how it wasn't a BL in the second half. I could not disagree more.

The young actor who played Liu was truly magnificent in this part. I believed everything she put on the table and her acting was off the charts; she's a real treasure. I'll say it again: When Liu/Dew ran into Pob's arms at the train station toward the end I broke wide open...one of the most intense moments in BL history because Liu and Dew are the SAME PERSON and he is back in Pob's loving arms. Wow, that was so powerful.

To the pedo-freaks: get a life. Stop watching movies or at least stick to Disney and Lifetime channels. You're not capable of pondering events that require thought and heart; your minds are too small, your world too constricted. It amazes me that anyone who watches BLs, which are about young men going gay in general, which the vast majority of people know nothing about and would find to be totally weird, is whining "oooh, she's a young girl, this makes me feel icky feels...I want my mommy..." is hilarious in the extreme. This entire genre challenges societal norms and conventional thinking. What the hell are you even doing here?

BRAVO! I did hate to see Ohm disappear from most of the second half, but he set the stage powerfully for what was to come with his beautiful work in the first half. I look forward to more of him. I love that goofy grin of his. :)

good god, the story is SUPPOSED to make you uncomfortable..the CHARACTERS are uncomfortable, that's what makes the second half dilemma so powerful. So many MDL commenters are tender flowers who shrivel at the first sign of a challenging moral/ethical situation in a movie.

Why don't you just stop watching when you get all uncomfortable. A major function of all art is to challenge the audience and take them outside their comfort zone.

Finally, this is NOT pedo. The girl is a teenager, not seven years old.

Yeah, I have to basically agree with you. Like why was Mario in that silly, baggy three-times-too-big suit that made him look like some kid who stole his dad's suit, then all of a sudden he's in a very sharp and stylish all-black ensemble because he's becoming evil. I really thought the baggy suit had to have some meaning, but I guess not.

For a lot of reasons I have liked the series less with each episode. The first three had me crying half the time and now all I see are plot holes and stupid behavior on the part of most of the characters. The mom is an amazing actor but at this point her talents are being wasted because of bad writing.

I always question how series this sloppy get past the editing process? Is there a tyrannical director or producer and everyone is afraid to say how dumb the story has gotten?

This is my second watch since about a year ago. I remember this as being really good, but had forgotten just HOW good. Especially for obviously having been made on a shoestring, this is one of those BLs with so much heart and exceptional chemistry between the leads that who knows?, more money might have ruined it.

The acting across the board is excellent, from all the support players too. The young man playing LiXiang as a middle schooler is amazingly talented. Even the asshole school director is being acted well. But from Edward Chen and Jason Tauh...nothing but spot-on perfection. They are so natural in their parts that I believe in both as real people and that makes everything else work.

A few week spots in the plot but oh well...like, wouldn't XCZ be at least a LITTLE hesitant to go drinking in a gay bar the first time around? I get that maybe he didn't realize it WAS a gay bar when he got there, but it would have taken five minutes to notice. lol

And Edward Chen was the one I found strikingly handsome the first time I watched, so why is Jason Tauh the one dazzling me this time? His beautiful, charming, natural smile is everything. I really addore this series, short as it is.

I know a LOT of people like HCTM, but I couldn't get past the second ep. Just seemed hokey to me.

Mind sharing where you watched Sweet Curse? I can't find it.

Never Again will I watch this show. One of the worst BLs ever.
What a bunch of messed-up little queens.
The guy's a ho-bag who brutally dumps BFs after one month, and is notorious for doing so.
And we're supposed to care about this guy? He's ridiculous.
Then we have the "friend" who makes his buddy Tae choose between him and dating the ho-bag. Who cares? If you're willing to do that, then you're not over the ho-bag.
I just wish we would have seen some of this sex Nhui is known for having with everyone. Instead, we got some of the lamest mannequin-kisses in BL history.
Loved when Nhui decided to randomly reach out to Tae over some freaking radio talk show and that DJ kept yelling a one-syllable retort throughout. lol
I think Nhui needs to do without a BF for a year or so and see a therapist instead.
We never did see if Nhui and Tae ever did the nasty.
Did Tae pay for those fireworks or did they just randomly happen to go off?
Why did ho-bag start babbling about dating Prince again on the occasion of his third month anniversary with Tae?
Who wrote this mess?

Also...why do some subbers not bother to sub crucial written documents when shown on screen?

Serious question: What about this movie made you sad and cry?

It is about nothing.

I agree with a lot of what you say, but for the reasons you say it's art I say it's mostly crap. And I'm a very artsy-fartsy person. I'm mostly a visual artist. This movie is me schmearing mud and dog shit across a canvas and then telling mystified, repulsed viewers "you aren't SUPPOSED to understand it!" lol What a load of hooey.

Wow. I find it stunning that you would want Konno in a relationship with a sociopathic, low-grade monster, incapable of love. What do you think it was his brother saw in his eyes at his mother's funeral? NOTHING. The new boyfriend was cute and unlikely to put an axe in your back.

I think Hiasa, and this is supported by what was said by his father and brother, is incapable of human connection, feelings of love, etc. He is a sociopath and has probably killed people, or he soon will. I think maybe he poisoned his mother with a pomegranate fruit. Hey, I get to make up crazy shit just like the writer/director.

Sometimes it seems certain writers and directors leave things open to so many interpretations either because they can't make up their own mind what they're saying or they're just fucking with the audience.

This is basically Asian David Lynch.