Vietnamese shows can really be a hit or a miss, and this one was no exception. The plot definitely had some good ideas, but it felt like they dragged it out way longer than necessary. Honestly, they could have finished the whole thing in eight episodes, but instead, we had to sit through fourteen installments that were 35 minutes each—and the finale was almost an hour long! Also, I’ve got to say, the "amnesia" trope is getting so old in the BL world. Writers really need to find some fresh ideas. The story is about Viet, a young artist who is going through a really rough time. He’s lost his parents, gets picked on by his boss, and eventually quits his job. To make things worse, his boyfriend has been ghosting him, and when Viet finally goes to see him, he finds out the guy has moved on to someone else without even bothering to break up with him. His only support is a female friend who sticks by him through everything. To clear his head, Viet heads to a quiet mountain village a...
Gerard is a bisexual writer. On his way to give. Lecture, he sees a hot man on the train station and completely obsesses over him, but the man soon leaves. During one of his lectures, he meets Christine who asks him to say the night at her place and they have a one night stand. She runs a beauty salon and apparently was married before thrice. Next day, Gerard sees a picture of Christine's boyfriend, a man named Herman, who is the same guy he saw at train station. He decides to stay longer hoping to meet Herman and seduce him. When Christine goes to work, he spends time in weird day dreams. One of the days he sees video reels when he finds out about three of Chirstine's marriages before and how all three men in tragic accidents. Herman soon arrives and Gerard wants him at any cost. When Herman is showing him around the town, Gerard is successful in seducing him, mostly because Herman is star struck with Gerard's popularity in literary circles. But soon Gerard is convinced that Christine is a witch and either he or Herman is going to be her fourth victim. The two men are soon in an accident in which Herman does and Gerard is in hospital. As he is hospitalized, Christine meets another young, attractive man in the hospital lobby, with whom she leaves.
The film uses a lot of Catholic symbols to build the tension associated to smart dialogues including a scene where Gerard dreams of crucified Jesus only in underwear where he is undressing him. I feel that a lot of things in the film are used for shock value. There's strangulation, full frontal male and female nudity, castration, mutilation, simulated sex, a scene in a church with a cross that will shock most people, a gay sex scene in a crypt etc. The basic plot is very simple but is dragged out to nearly two hours before reaching a pointless conclusion. The acting is fine given the film came back in the 80s and its nothing much to write about. Honestly, films like these are not my cup of tea. I am not really sure what the director of the film was trying to say through the many dream like sequences. It was neither a murder mystery nor a sexual thriller despite plenty nudity in the film. It felt more like a hallucinated lead actor and audience just going through the motions of what this guy might be going through. Watch at your own risk. My advice would be to stay away. Its not worth it evener nudity or the mere fact that our lead likes men. (1.5/10)
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