Not a review but my thoughts

The movie is about how concept love, sex and marriage is different for different individuals. I have lot of qualms about the narrative decided, but need to praise lot of choices made as well. I am curious about how these characters will live, in future. Music, acting, direction and cinematography are all top notch. The abundance of sex scene somehow felt very organic and necessary.

I am not sure what Ikka sees in Ryosuke and what's her future plan. I am not sure what's Ryosuke's plan either. All he does is cheat and lie, sometimes does some introspection on his behaviour and that's about it. Ikka is clearly ruining herself and him just like stated since she thinks sex was the problem and not the lies which he is feeding her. And she wants to keep doing this forever, like that will never explode on her face.

Other than the age gap (somewhat necessary for this story), the storyline in the bookstore felt very heartwarming. You can understand him to larger extent with their interaction, and I wish the ending was slightly better, because she is still 16 /17 and he is 30 in the end. She will 💯 leave him later when she matures and he will get hurt.

But the treatment of this frail story made the watch much enjoyable.

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Breezy, light, fun under no one's expense

This is a definition of light, breezy movie. You expose two recently broken up characters with different values interact with each other with lots of misunderstanding and slowly recover from their pasts in a 2 hr movie.

Both main characters had sufficient depth and character growth, even when we get frustrated at the perinniel drinking or bad mouthing, we slowly warm up to them and what caused them to act this way. And we see some definitive growth by the end.

Except for excessive alcohol induced interactions, I would definitely watch this movie again

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No excuses for an affair

Rating this higher not because of the overall quality of the drama, but how it made me feel. Except last few mins and the over the top affair couple arc, the drama feels way too realistic wrt the introspection part.

I still feel they did not try to justify the affair or make the husband the reason for such behaviour but made us understand why things ended up they the way they did. If only they let wife feel guilty the way husband expected in the beginning after she came down to the ground from the dream and avoided immediate happy ending, it would have been even better. I cannot digest the fact that wife did not get punished enough for her actions, hopefully her her gets to know about it in the future.

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