Fisioterapia (2022)

Tinha potencial, mas teve uma péssima direção

Eu não esperava muito desse BL, e minhas expectativas foram supridas, entregou muito pouco em quase todos os aspectos.
O roteiro nem é ruim, acho que faltou uma boa direção. A história tem um plot que tinha tudo pra dar certo, menos o empenho da equipe. de produção.

A história tem seus clichês, mas em sua maioria é inovadora. Um jovem com o coração partido por ter levado um fora, adoece da coluna e o médico que o atende se apaixona por ele à primeira vista. Fora o fato do paciente aceitar o médico morar em sua casa sob o pretexto de cuidar dele (???), cada um deles tinha uma história anterior que tinha potencial para ser explorada e não foi. No caso de Milk, seu ex sofre de depressão. e como esse tópico é pouco abordado de forma correta e aprofundada, seria uma boa oportunidade para abrir essa discussão, já que a série é sobre médicos. Já o Dr. Pun não tem uma ex, mas praticamente uma perseguidora. As famílias de ambos decidiram que eles deviam se casar, ele não aceitou, mas ela queria obrigá-lo a isso de qualquer jeito. O assunto a ser abordado aqui não seria a toxidade da ex, e sim essa prática recorrente nas séries, que eu creio ser comum em famílias muito ricas, de ainda, em pleno século 21, quererem casar filhos por conveniência.

As histórias paralelas que acontecem em volta do casal principal acabam os envolvendo, como o do Dr. Yang , que acaba tendo sua sexualidade exposta sem seu consentimento (outro ponto de discussão importante), sobre a jovem que não queria se casar para focar na carreira, entre tantos assuntos pertinentes e mal abordados.

Algumas coisas acabaram ficando sem muita explicação, por exemplo, no início todos alegavam que a situação de Milk era gravíssima, e do nada ele estava bem com algumas seções de fisioterapia. O porquê Yamyen expôs o doutor, a situação da moça que não queria casar, que aparentemente gostava do patrão de Milk... enfim, mal trabalhada, mal elaborada, muitos furos e pra completar, uma atuação péssima e o pior prota da Tailândia em 2022, meu Deus como o Milk é chato pra c@r@lh#! Coitado do Dr, Pun, com toda aquela paciência.

Os aspectos técnicos não tem nada de marcante, com exceção da ost, que é linda! Enfim, eu não veria de novo, duas vezes foi suficiente, mas não desencorajo quem pretende ver, cada um deve tirar suas próprias conclusões.

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Possibly the worst... anything that I've seen.

You know how when you pass a huge accident on the road you can't help but look? Well, at least in that case something interesting has happened. This more like passing a cactus and staring at it until it does something.

I gave it a '1' for story, because there's no "0". That sounds harsh, but there's actually no plot. There are times you may think there's one, but it's a trick. This series is so random that I almost always had to go back and check that I didn't skip an episode because the current one never really had a connection to any of the past episodes. There are so many random things thrown into this that it's bewildering. There's even an entire new character with apparently nefarious intent (judging by the ominous music cues whenever he appears) thrown into the very last episode that is totally unconnected with anything else and you have no idea (and never find out) what he wants or intends. That happens a lot. This really feels like there was a pile of 30 BL scripts on a desk and someone accidentally knocked them into a shredder and this is what they came up with by randomly taping scraps together. That sounds exaggerated, but it's not.

Let me give you an example: It's hinted that one of the characters has done something wrong. Barely hinted. Then at the end of an episode, everyone's phones start dinging - they all glance at their phones, then turn to stare at the character. And that's it. We never find out what the text said, or what the character in question did, nor does this have any meaningful effect on the story.

Another example: Milk and Pun suddenly have a kid. He's 5 years old as there has been a time jump. There are scenes of Pun being a cute dad. Then the mother shows up and says - "Thanks guys, I'm talking him back." I guess she realized he's old enough to vacuum now or something. To be fair, Pun is depressed, but as is standard for a BL, a damp towel cures him of that.

I slogged through this because the main character, Milk, is so cute that puppies are goblin sharks in comparison (don't google that before bedtime). And Dr. Pun looks extremely good when he steps out of the shower. And I hoped they would get together in some beautiful and romantic way. In the end it seemed like neither of them had anything better to do.

This series is so dreary that when their relationship is formalized everyone is sitting on one side of a table in what I would have thought was a conscious imitation of The Last Supper, but it can't be because there's a story behind the Last Supper and that would mean that whoever wrote this is aware of the idea of a story.

There are BLs where there is no kissing. That's OK in many cases, because they're set in high school and the characters have never dated or kissed anyone before. This series ends with the characters in their 30s, and Milk still acts like the creature from Alien is unhinging its jaw next to him whenever he's in danger of being kissed by Pun. There is a 5-year time jump, during which time they're togther, and they still have never kissed, let alone had sex. Even when Pun proposes marriage, all he gets is a grunt and a peck on the cheek. The lack of intimacy in this is so severe that I don't know what else to call it but homophobia. They don't even directly refer to relationships - it's easy to miss because everyone speaks of them in oblique terms. They could be talking about working together, accidentally bumping into each other in an elevator, running over someone with their car, or being in an LTR - it's hard to tell.

This is full of people pontificating about life and happiness with the profundity of a greeting card you pick up at the supermarket because you forgot your nephew's birthday. There are very, very long monologues about this at random times when it has no relevance to anything else that's going on.

This diretor/screenwriter also did Love Sick 2 and Friend Forever, and after those two valiant attempts has finally succeeded in making the most boring and miserable series possible.

The technical qualities of this are OK, but not ever exceptional. There are a few funny mistakes, like a big red 'X' taped to a bench to indicate where an actor should sit. (To be fair, he sat on it, so it worked.)

Acting: 5. I don't think anyone's actually acting, so it's not any more terrible than people standing around talking, but nobody every really does anything involving more skill than people standing around talking. Son Ravisut makes an impression as Milk, and Petch Jakkaphet makes an impression with his exposed glistening torso, but both of those are shallow qualities. There are occassional glimpses of ability in Son, but I can't be sure given the material. And other than cuteness, there's not really much to recommend him. If you refuse to engage in m/m intimacy, then don't accept a role in a BL.

Music: 1. There are three snippets of stock music the editor downloaded. One is that standard bassoon melody for light moments, then there is something bland for normal stuff, and an ominous track for when something dark is happening. Dark is too strong - more like a tiny diminution of light like when a moth is flying a meter or so from a lamp. That's about as much as the tone of the series ever changes.

Rewatch value: 2 - there is one scene I've rewatched. Dr. Pun takes a shower and stands around for a minute or so glistening and wearing only a towel around his waist.

Overall: 2.5 - This is truly terrible and a complete waste of time. It's absolutely incomprehensible that this could ever have been made.

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