This is the reason why you shouldn't trust the movie's ratings all the time!

The trailer was very misleading because you'll expect a normal slice of life, romantic, socially relevant, and emotionally appealing movie but it wasn't(partly)!

The movie showed a lot of issues in the beginning like how aids have caused stigma towards gay people, military camps for homosexuals, and teenage angst but the movie failed to use those to show the progress in their society. INSTEAD they proceeded to breaking the two main characters apart without explaining too much on what really happened and skipped to the present which is MANY YEARS after the first arc in which Dew died WITHOUT ANY EXPLANATION and REINCARNATED AS A TEENAGE GIRL.

This is quite bothering because Phop is now a teacher and Dew's reincarnated version is his female student. There's quite an uneasy feeling when a grown old man seems to look at a teenage girl with intimacy.

For the positive side:
-aesthetically pleasing scenes
-camera work was good
-The character who played phop was good.