Name Engraved in Your Heart (The)

You have to remember that this is set in 1987...hopefully, the Taiwanese education system is less brutal!

Isn't it amazing how 'adults' simply forget what they were like when they were young...doing daft things, getting into trouble, falling in love [with the wrong person]...it's as if, you reach a certain age [or office] and instantly forget the joys and missteps of youth! This film enshrines this perplexing conundrum perfectly.

Requited love, there's nothing more beautiful. Requited love between to beautiful young men...ooh, it melts the heart. And...these two young actors have the chemistry to make you tingle with jealousy.

Despite a few missteps, the religious preaching by a miscast priest, Danny Boy being played badly and too often...and, the last scene a couple of decade later [unnecessary]. There's a natural point where this film should have ended...leaving you wondering which is not a bad way to be left!

It's a beautifully shot film...with a damn fine score [apart from Danny Boy]. But...it's the two young actors who grab the limelight and wrestle not only with each other but with  some difficult issues...'homosexuality as a phase' being particularly pertinent...along with religious intervention and, that old chestnut that never goes away: Tradition!

So...this is not your average Boys Love film...this has meat on its bones and beauty in its DNA.

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