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cute lighthearted rom-com but has some bothering flaws.
This is the first modern cdrama I enjoy after watching meteor garden (2018) two years ago. The reason I decided to watch this one is for obvious reasons: Darren Chen e_e he will always remind me of when I travelled to China back in 2018. Anyway, usually I am not into cdramas because I just get bored and they tend to be quite long in comparison to kdramas.
Overall I ended up loving this one despite being so cliché and I didn't plan to write a review for this one but I feel the need to mention some things that I kind of found disturbing since I haven't seen a single soul mentioning them and it's something needed to be mentioned and make them accountable, like we're in 2020, these things shouldn't happen -.-
So here comes my rant,
In general when the genre is gender bender, there's this little "confusion" of both ML and FL seen as gays from others' eyes and usually it's resolved without much comments about it and played in an 'innocent' way. Sure I can always buy that, but in this one I just couldn't handle how homophobic everything was. The on-going comments undermining homophobia just killed my respect for the writer/director. Let me give you two examples that I vividly remember, first one when second ML Wei Lian started having feelings for the FL, unknown that she was a girl, he went (kinda horrified by the idea) to see his friend (the ice skater girl) and ask for advice. What was her response? "If you have those feelings for a woman it's obviously that you're in love with her but if it happens that you're attracted to a man, it's just because you look up to that person, a role model" ... excuse me? as if a man could not fall in love with another man... The audacity of completely cancelling homosexuality as if it doesn't exist literally disgusted me :'). The other one that bothered me to the bones was when Sang Tian and Wen Bing were talking about their relationship with Wen Bing's mum and she kept mentioning that since Sang Tian is still disguised as a man, they should behave with each other like 'men' do and not like a couple... I just .... (insert the two eyes and mouth emoji here). Like yes, we all know that LGBT community in China is completely rejected (ehem..censorship...ehem) and seen as a 'bad thing' but come on, this is so homophobic that I wanted to slap whoever wrote that sh*t. It makes me feel truly sad, always thinking what if someone confused with their sexuality happened to watch this cdrama? Those ignorant comments can hurt so much, it just blows my mind...
Leaving those aside, the cdrama is really entertaining and had this Hana Kimi vibes all throughout it but yeah, I couldn't ignore what was obvious. I gave this one a 8 plainly for the fact that it made me feel like I was in 2011 watching all those gender bender dramas like Coffee Prince, To The Beautiful You, You're Beautiful... but could've been higher if it wasn't for what I mentioned.
Overall I ended up loving this one despite being so cliché and I didn't plan to write a review for this one but I feel the need to mention some things that I kind of found disturbing since I haven't seen a single soul mentioning them and it's something needed to be mentioned and make them accountable, like we're in 2020, these things shouldn't happen -.-
So here comes my rant,
In general when the genre is gender bender, there's this little "confusion" of both ML and FL seen as gays from others' eyes and usually it's resolved without much comments about it and played in an 'innocent' way. Sure I can always buy that, but in this one I just couldn't handle how homophobic everything was. The on-going comments undermining homophobia just killed my respect for the writer/director. Let me give you two examples that I vividly remember, first one when second ML Wei Lian started having feelings for the FL, unknown that she was a girl, he went (kinda horrified by the idea) to see his friend (the ice skater girl) and ask for advice. What was her response? "If you have those feelings for a woman it's obviously that you're in love with her but if it happens that you're attracted to a man, it's just because you look up to that person, a role model" ... excuse me? as if a man could not fall in love with another man... The audacity of completely cancelling homosexuality as if it doesn't exist literally disgusted me :'). The other one that bothered me to the bones was when Sang Tian and Wen Bing were talking about their relationship with Wen Bing's mum and she kept mentioning that since Sang Tian is still disguised as a man, they should behave with each other like 'men' do and not like a couple... I just .... (insert the two eyes and mouth emoji here). Like yes, we all know that LGBT community in China is completely rejected (ehem..censorship...ehem) and seen as a 'bad thing' but come on, this is so homophobic that I wanted to slap whoever wrote that sh*t. It makes me feel truly sad, always thinking what if someone confused with their sexuality happened to watch this cdrama? Those ignorant comments can hurt so much, it just blows my mind...
Leaving those aside, the cdrama is really entertaining and had this Hana Kimi vibes all throughout it but yeah, I couldn't ignore what was obvious. I gave this one a 8 plainly for the fact that it made me feel like I was in 2011 watching all those gender bender dramas like Coffee Prince, To The Beautiful You, You're Beautiful... but could've been higher if it wasn't for what I mentioned.
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