Hymang
Bodies in Landscape
A poignant play with bodies, landscape, identity. The actors are really beautiful and the music is quite hypnotizing. They are constructed with bitter irony around themes of immigration and personal alienation. By changing the location of the narrative, the “boys love” neo-noir film becomes an investigation of the current power interactions but also points to complicate the our relationship to ‘the West’. It is an arty poetic work, that reminds me of old films from the 1960s. A story about a man who is returning to his war zone home-town and it turns into a contemplative story about the queer body and what place can our identity take.Was this review helpful to you?
Not my cup of tea
Personally, I love sexy BL stories but prefer more arty stuff like The Cage or Cancelled Faces or Happy Together. In this story there is something to predictable but I did enjoy how the plot moved along to reveal the lives of Haruto and Aoyama. It's not as "Noir" as The Cage but still we dive into the conflicts that are presented and is newer because the other films are from earlier times. I think I also agree with other reviewers that say that the plot is rather expected and not so subversive.Was this review helpful to you?
