u/logicaltornado

The period in Japanese Cinema when one half of every love pair died?

Ok, I'm from America, but I generally watch Asian cinema as a hobby starting from when I was 12 and getting help from a lot of friend who are obsessed with cinema or Japan or both. I haven't seen it all or anything, but Japan produces far less movies and cinema than America or otherwise there's a disparity of what we can get here, but what I'm getting to is this:

Wasn't there this long era in Japanese cinema where everyone who fell in love, inevitably one half of the pair would die or otherwise be separated and, or suffer a terrible string of tragedies, or just one tragedy with a lot of focus on that, or death generally, or basically how everything is just terrible and you sort of have these moments and, or people and, or points of view that are not terrible amidst all the tragedy.... or is that happening in my mind?

I feel like I could predict like clockwork by the time the first Final Fantasy movie came out how if two people fell in love one of them would inevitably die..

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u/logicaltornado — 3 days ago

I'm confused, does Lu Feng have sex with people who are not Yichen while they are apart?

This is so confusing because Le Feng both says and sees that the guy at the club is Yichen which is why he went home with him... I see no problem here, he's so drunk he mistakes one guy for another and is not trying to cheat or whatever.

Then he says something like - a man has needs... so...

WTF? I really hate when stories have confusing or ambiguous story lines.

In any version of this story does Lu Feng have sex with people who are not Yichen while they are apart? Or at all?

This is important to me because it affects my overall desire to watch the series.

This isn't related to this version of a series, I'm wondering if in the book or in Round Trip to Love original as well.

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u/logicaltornado — 4 days ago
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Slightly Disappointed in JDrama Soul Mate - Is this really a BL or a Bromance?

It's not the insane amount of tragedies that plague these people's lives, it's the unexplained "connection" between the leads. Whether it's the ridiculously fast jump into asking the guy to move in together based on the actual amount of interaction they've had, or the ridiculous one year gap between the girl finding out he's dying to actually telling the other guy he's dying.......The way people act in this drama doesn't make sense and doesn't explain how or why they fell for each other or if they are supposed to be in romantic love or not.

I think it's a great story except for the problem I have with people giving misleading premises, titles, and genres to their work, which I find to be happening with greater and greater frequency in the last few years.

No matter how I look at it, this is not a BL. They don't overcome any tragedies at all by the way, they just accept all of them and comfort each other and that's all fine... but like... what am I watching here? WTF

It makes me mad. I don't know how long they lived together, why Japanese people are obsessed with people who love each other leaving and spending most of the relationship apart instead of together (also a French and American thing - people sincerely hate the idea of people being together with those they want the most for reasons I've never understood but I would guess is related to giving up on what you want), why their relationship in the at least for sure two years they lived together was wholly platonic if they are in love... so many questions about things that are ultimately nonsense.

I found myself in the second or third to last episode wondering if they slept in the same room or had different room because I would have zero reason to believe this was a BL or romance if it wasn't billed as an LBGTQ+ and romance.

And I kind of have a problem with being mislead.

I found myself in the last episode looking up if this was a BL or a bromance, halfway through the last episode. I can appreciate quiet love, and the love was there... but like, don't call it romantic love if it's not and if it is... please demonstrate that it is... it's not for us to draw out own story out of your story... you're supposed to tell the story, not us.

This is a problem I have with misleading storytelling and labels not BL or not BL story lines.

For comparison, two guy platonically eating noodles: https://x.com/eatthendrink/status/2055987640856641881

u/logicaltornado — 4 days ago

What does yearning look like in film/television/music videos?

Do you have any film examples, stories, lessons, anything? If I'm filming "yearning", what does that look like?

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u/logicaltornado — 5 days ago