A short film with no spoken dialect, Min-soo and Seok-i come face-to-face after Min-soo drops a roll of film at Seok-i’s foot. There is an instant spark through the silent gazes. Min-soo gets off the bus, but Seok-i follows him. All in this time, a fairy gives them advice through a song. It turns out Seok-i had been following Min-soo with the intention of giving him back a camera, which was stolen when Seok-i and his friends mugged him.
As Seok-i walks away, Min-soo runs after him and they embrace.
“Boy Meets Boy” wastes no time with sexual imagery, bombarding us with lingering shots of film tubes, and of cameras that need a good loading. This is a short film, of course, so that kind of thing is to be expected and squealed at. What is not so expected, however, is the glowing Cupid girl that pops up in the middle of the gay bully/nerd romance, in order to sing an absurd educational song about the nature of cruising.
After tiny, earnest Min-soo shares a lusty bus ride with his masculine attacker and then meets him on the streets, Cupid pops up to warn, “Be careful when you hook up on the streets,” kicking off an entire animated tutorial. “Take control of the speed / If he keeps up with your pace/ You’re 100% sure, then go for it!” If you think about a budding Korean gay first discovering their lovely hormones, and then think about them watching this silly and disarming song, it’ll definitely warm your heart.
Still, you’ll wonder why it also had to completely interrupt a possibly endearing story. After all, couldn’t they have just put the song at the end instead of smack dab in the middle? Maybe it’s just like gay bully/nerd romance—reason has no place in the equation. Check it out for yourself.
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