Love and Leashes…. Opinion

Just ended watching it. Even though I didn’t expected them to go all out like in FSG, it was way more tamed than expected.

It had many funny cringe worthy moments. But overall a standard romcom in my opinion.

Seohyun’s character as a Dom didn’t took much risks, but was still naturally acted. Lee Jun-Young character as a Sub on the other hand had some extremely cringy moments, but acted out quite naturally as well.

I wish they would have went a little deeper with the complexity a DS/SM relationship could have when mixed with romantic feelings. I felt this was a bit underdeveloped in the story even though it was supposed to be their biggest conflict.

Had some criticism towards toxic masculinity and the message that people should be more open minded.

It wasn’t groundbreaking cause I could tell they still played it safe. But it was a cute romcom. I think the chemistry between the ml and fm was good too.

PS* thought the side story with his ex felt kinda flat too. She was just there to let us viewers know why he was afraid of a romantic relationship, but her appearance didn’t served any further purpose. She was also just being annoying as well.

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OMG I didn't know it was going to be released internationally today, i thought it was going to be only in korea :OOO

i'm gonna watch it right now :OOO

it's still a korean movie, so i can understand why they played it safe

but i still think it's cool that they were enough open minded to do a movie like this

and i'm glad that seohyun isn't afraid to take on acting role that an "idol GG member" would be to afraid to take

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Yeah its out internationally on Netflix, even with dub lol.

I know that because its a Korean movie they would play it safe, what I mean with not fully developed is that the conflict didn’t felt that complicated enough even though they wanted us to believe it was.

But yeah, the fact that they were open minded enough to even create a movie with that topic is a big step I guess.

I already felt that Seohyun is willing to take matured leading roles, I liked her character in Private Lives too and it had a lot of passionate kissing scenes which Idols would actually try to avoid.

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I have not seen the movie but i saw this clip from the movie on Twitter

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Girl …. I was dying, I had to stop several times I couldn’t watch it in one go

He took this role really serious

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Because there are BDSM relationships without sex.

They even said that in the movie. Tbh it made me looking at it less abusive It really looks like just a specific fetish a couple could have without anyone being hurt or feeling uncomfortable.

Quote from centen

I think a lot of BDSM stuff that gets popular tends toward "omg, what a bunch of weird freaks!" and a lot of it encourages really unsafe situations if someone were to emulate it.

Yeah, like people who specifically search for people who are into it to take advantage of them. It has a lot to do with consent and I think it was good that they put a lot of emphasis on it!

Quote from Golden_Wishes

I liked it but how do you have a BDSM movie with literally no sex?

That’s how Hollywood sold BDSM to the masses.