Not Friends

Damn that wrecked me in such a clever, unexpected way.

I have seen plenty of Asian melodramas, and you kind of see them coming, you know the regular beats, but this one just hits you over and over again when you least expect it. I'll say it's clever. Which you certainly don't expect of your average teen movie. But this is so much more than that. Yeah, it's got your cheesy lines about dreams and the future, but that's just a minor part and even that hits pretty hard in the context of everything that happens. Let's just say the script is really clever with its twists and tonal shifts and maybe the only thing that didn't resonate was the forced comedy in the beginning, but that was short-lived too. The successive revelations in the flashbacks are heartwarming or heartbreaking, sometimes at the same time.

Thailand is having a good year on Netflix. Also, Oscar submission damn!!!

And it turns out Pae had actually been a friend to Joe. It was the beginning of something beautiful. Damn Joe, why d'you have to die on us like that?