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Odessa Jones

American living in South Korea

Odessa Jones

American living in South Korea
Formula 17 taiwanese movie review
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Formula 17
3 people found this review helpful
by Odessa Jones
Mar 3, 2018
Completed
Overall 6.5
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 6.5
Music 6.5
Rewatch Value 6.0
A light, fluffy gay rom com from Taiwan. Gay romantic comedies are so few and far between that it's worth putting up with the low budget here, just to get a different perspective on romance.

The editing isn't great, so the narrative wanders a bit. We don't spend as much time with the central couple as I would have liked. But the characters are likeable and don't fall into any BL cliches. In fact, although this is an Asian story about men falling in love with men, it isn't "boys' love." It's a story by gay men about their lives, or at least the fluffy, funny parts of their lives. It has a happy ending that makes sense emotionally. And a few scenes are so funny that they make the whole movie worthwhile (the scene where our hero gets his crush's business card is rom com gold).
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