I'm pretty sure everyone by now has seen and re-seen this adorable little video:
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I like being always a century late fandom-wise, so I just watched it five minutes ago (and spent them spazzing in 'lol'ness).
DO YOU WONDER WHY?
Recently, I read (I think it was on Kpop secret meme) a comment saying that (and I quote): 'Changmin was the only one with a het vibe in 2AM'. While I respectfully disagree, please, Jokwon is just in touch with his feminine side, well, it's still true that I spend half of my fics ranting about how Changmin is very married with girls and boobs, thanks a lot.
Let me tell you, this video changed a great deal of things. Suddenly, I feel like someone updated their gay a notch. So the only way to aproach this healthily, really, was to grab a notepad and to flirt wit my 'Prt Sc' key...
And...
Scene one: a bar, two lonely guys sharing a drink.
Normal? I think not...
I'll spare you the shots of lingering gazes and the focus on red-pink lips.
! Cute harmonizing.
(Nice earrings, btw, Changmin.)
Also, notice the matching haircuts.
Scene two: THE BATHROOM SCENE. THE INFAMOUS BATHROOM SCENE, JAY WOULD SAY.
I WILL NEED NUMEROTATION HERE.
1) Nekid chests. (take one) And everything that should naturally come with nekid chests, aka muscle-flexing and ab-rippling and fanservice.
Subtle re-tying of towel knot, btw.
2) Cute, fun dialogue is cute and fun.
3) Skin care is important. No, really. Lee Hyun is right.
I've got man shoulders!
Scene three: tangled limbs.
My, my, my. If this isn't a confusing first shot that we've got here... Look at the golden skin, the arms, that could totally belong to, say, one's BFF-and-more,.
I'm pretty sure Scarlett Johanson has a similar photoshoot.
Scene four: the car.
The car is like, the puppy or the kitten in bad yaoi fanfics. #access of selfconsciousness# It's the third-party that allows the reunion of the main protagonists' souls, really. Also, it's red. (SEXY. LOVE. MENSTRUAL CYCLE. Wait, no.)
Importance of the post-card symbolism: stands for reminiscence of common past, good times spent together (! Changmin's cute fond smile). Also, the tropical design => suggests heat, passion, SEX.
Also, it's something they share, as Changmin shoves it right under Lee Hyun's nose, traditional "It was great, ne, honey?" move, leading to MORE FUN TIME spent together because reminiscing is cool.
AND THEN. There's the weird and still unexplained 'Let's take off our shirts and lean back to back and grin sappily at each other" scene. I mean, even HanaKimi doesn't have one like that (and, let me remind you, HanaKimi has Shirota Yuu smooching Oguri Shun, so).
I suppose it looks good. (And well, it does.) ALSO THERE IS BELT-(UN)BUCKLING.
WHICH, you'll be happy to know, LEADS TO A SECOND HYPOTHESIS:
THIS SCENE IS AN ELLIPSE. Or a euphemism.
There is actually hot parking-lot!sex and they only show you undressing and laughing to stay PG and please the Vatican. (Si quelqu'un portant du pourpre lit ceci, flame me, Hell is fun.)
NOTICE THE PERKY MINPPLES.
Scene five: gee, already. The roadtrip.
Well, what do you want? Happy couple-singing, couple-bantering.
SYmbolism of the shared trip => hardships, emotion, path of love.
Lee Hyun's blissful grin, see it.
Holding hands.
The open-roof: freedom (which can be linked back to social pressure matters and the euphoria to finally be together without restraints).
[I just had a crazy thought. The car's name is Rubicon. Does this have anything to do with Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon? AKA taking a leap forwards, nanana?]
WEIRD, SUDDEN, TURN.
HOW SO? WHERE WAS YOUR HAND, 'HYUN? WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
Common consternation in front of their mechanics!fail.
Re: ellipse. One time it's dark and they're leaning against the car, then full light again and they're slouched on their seats. Hm Hm.
Standing side-by-side in front of the desert. (Holding hands AGAIN?)
Oh, hey, look, Gaara!
PEEING SIDE-BY-SIDE, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT, TELL ME THEY'RE NOT COMPARING SIZES. Or, second, more fun, hypothesis: jerking off side-by-side. (But that's really a bit weird to contemplate.)
Now, let me open a parenthesis: THE GIRL
She's portrayed, let's face it, as a brainless, super-boobed, super-assed, troublemaker bimbo. Seriously, why does she have to rub against Rubicon and then a pool table and then Lee Hyun, huh? Calm down, little fellas. The girl is actually the catalyst of a necessary jealous reaction that can afterwards lead to hot sex and very possible corniness about eternity and hope, thank you Nakamaru, that'll be it. She's the Hanazawa Rui of 'Homme', so to speak. (That was fun to write.) So, yeah. No need to flame. She does her best. (She even lets them keep the postcard.)
UN---F?
So, she fixes their car (oh, you poor littles things, there was only a button to turn!), and then off they go, playing pool and ondulating on the dance floor. AND THERE.
Oh, all these lingering glances and jealousy-glossed eyes, oh, and the sweatiness, mm.
Notice the erotic nature of pool (those long sticks, and BALLS, and filling the holes, yummy, innit').
Am I the only one who's reminded of Brokeback Mountain there?
Scene seven: MATCHING SHIRTS HOOP WITH ME FOR MATCHING SHIRTS THEY DID IT THEY DID IT!
This charming young lass gets dressed. WHO SLEPT WITH HER?
Everything seems to indicate that BlueMin did, and PinkHyun isn't happy about it, oh no, not at all.
Then, look how nice she is, she allows them a well-earned reconciliation by stealing their car.
And actually, I've got it. The shirt-stripping is a pavlovian response to the postcard. They're conditionned. They can't do anything about it.
So, this was fun.
But, yeah, clearly, Changmin is the straight one in 2AM. I mean duh.
OMG, this is totally not PG-13...
Thank you:
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