The boxer is gay.What makes you think the hockey player is gay?What you see in your imagination doesn't count.The…
You’re confusing disagreement with delusion. The writers intentionally built ambiguity, emotional intimacy, and romantic coding into the relationship from the start. Audiences interpreting that is not media illiteracy, it is literally how storytelling works.
Interesting that you require an explicit verbal declaration for this relationship to ‘count’, yet heterosexual romance in media is routinely inferred through far less. Subtext is still text. Fiction uses framing, tension, emotional withdrawal, jealousy, sacrifice, longing, and unresolved feelings to signal romance all the time. Pretending those conventions suddenly disappear because the characters are male is a choice.
You’ve also listed a series of emotionally charged scenes as if they somehow disprove romantic interpretation, when in reality they are exactly why people read the relationship the way they do. If the subtext truly did not exist, people would not be debating it.
And honestly, you seem far more invested in proving he isn’t gay than anyone else is in saying he is. That alone says plenty.
The boxer is gay.What makes you think the hockey player is gay?What you see in your imagination doesn't count.The…
No delusion. And not imaginary. What makes you think he isn’t gay? There is actually no declaration of sexual identity from either of the ML. It is simply inferred in the subtlety of the writing. This is intentional from start. And that’s the point. It simply doesn’t matter. They love each other end of story… literally.
Ignore the haters already! It is a Stunning story that packs an emotional punch (see what I did there 👀🫶🤛!) A beautiful drama - period. Are they both gay - yes… does that matter in the story - of course…. Is it about how their relationship develops over the years - yes….. and that is what is most important about this series. The lives the lived and how they became truly intertwined emotionally (emphasis on the emotionally here) over the years. Snot bubble crying was not on my agenda this evening, but it’s worth the puffy eyes in the morning. I’m not sure anything will come close to this for the rest of 2026.
This film has left me wanting more. Definitely a comfort film to watch on rainy days. No drama, or stress just a simple story, beautifully acted. The overall story and different relationships that had been developed throughout felt unfinished though. There’s so much more story to tell, this is my only critique, but, this leaves room for a sequel? Anyway, it’s a good film!
It wasn’t that bad! I think some of the comments are pretty harsh to be honest. There are way worse films to watch than this. It’s a cute, feel good film. is the acting top notch? No it’s not great but it isn’t shockingly bad. Is the storyline amazing? No, it’s pretty basic. Is the script writing Oscar winning? No, it isn’t great but id say its average. Does it have a very believable kiss scene? Yes! Is there chemistry between the two main characters? Yes! does it have a happy ending? Yes! trust me there are WAY WORSE movies, than this one.
So after watching this and being a little bit confused by 1. The content only having a very slight undertone of a relationship between the main characters Young Hoon and Don Min and 2. The thumbnail/pictures promoting the short film which aren’t included in the film. So I decided to do a bit of digging! This short film along with another short film titled Young Hoon (named after the main character) was released for Korean film festivals in 2022. Young Hoon has the LGBTQ+ content, not that that matters, i thought Wind Bell was beautifully shot with a real consideration to the portrayal of unspoken emotions. But this shows Young Hoon (the character) reflecting on the relationship he had with Don Min (hence the thumbnail confusion). And from what I can gather with the bits of information I can find, this is done with a series of flashbacks. Now I can’t find this short film anywhere online (the 10 second trailer is available on a random FB page though). So I suppose we will never know what happens (unless GagaOOLala picks it up that is….. here’s hoping they do! So mystery solved :) if you want to look up the other short film it can be found here https://mydramalist.com/741545-young-hoon. And the FB trailer can be found here https://fb.watch/zUJ4EbZhws/?. And if anyone knows where to find it online let me know!!
Chinese ghost marriage?! So I didn’t find this odd in any way shape or form. This was my interpretation of the wedding scene anyway. Grief does funny things to people so I didn’t find it odd that Jack still had conversations/hallucinations etc of Joke still being there, he knew full well that Joke wasn’t real in those scenes, it just took time for him to process.
Interesting that you require an explicit verbal declaration for this relationship to ‘count’, yet heterosexual romance in media is routinely inferred through far less. Subtext is still text. Fiction uses framing, tension, emotional withdrawal, jealousy, sacrifice, longing, and unresolved feelings to signal romance all the time. Pretending those conventions suddenly disappear because the characters are male is a choice.
You’ve also listed a series of emotionally charged scenes as if they somehow disprove romantic interpretation, when in reality they are exactly why people read the relationship the way they do. If the subtext truly did not exist, people would not be debating it.
And honestly, you seem far more invested in proving he isn’t gay than anyone else is in saying he is. That alone says plenty.