A bit underrated good Korean BL drama

What I like most:
The two main leads are hot! Yoo Dong Kyun and Park Hyun Soo, acting as Kim Min Ki (whose brother, Kim Min Hoon, killed himself in the military) and Park Jae Hee (who was Kim Min Hoon's boyfriend) respectively, are good looking. They made me enjoy the movie a lot even though the story is a bit depressing and slow and the story-line is confusing.

I appreciated the story revealing the difficult process in which the two main leads had to go through the loss of their loved one. They had to cope not only with sorrow and despair, but also with anger.

What I don't:
I did not enjoy the story even if it honestly touched on the issue of suicide taking a painful toll on those left behind. In less than two hours, you have to go through two suicides. Why are so many Korean BL dramas agonizing, gloomy and tragic? Are they realistic?

The story-line is also confusing and I had difficulty following it. For example, the movie began with the kissing of the two main leads in Bangkok. Was the scene in the chronological order of the story? If so, why did Jae Hee chase Min Ki and kiss him? Or was it actually indicating the two finally reuniting after Kim Min Ki fled Pattaya and Park Jae Hee looked for him all the way to Bangkok? Bangkok is no small city. How did Jae Hee find Min Ki?

Then, the movie actually ended with the scene of the two reuniting on the beach of Pattaya. Did Jae Hee convince Min Ki to come back to Pattaya with him? But were they aware that Lee Tae Kyung, Jae Hee's brother-in-law with whom Tae Kyung lived in Pattaya, killed himself in part to make way for the two to be together (but also to undertake a sort of euthanasia as Tae Kyung was terminally ill)?

I wish the story-line could have been developed a bit so that the evolving relationship between Mink Ki and Jae Hee would become more convincing and realistic.

With these shortcomings, I still enjoyed the movie. I will probably re-watch it. It's a pity that the movie is a bit underrated or even unnoticed.

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