Eternal Summer
(Sheng xia guang nian)

This movie is beautifully made with almost perfect cinematography and with very promising future young actors.

This story portrays two best friends, Jonathan and Shane, as they explore friendships and relationships. It seemed at the beginning it was an one-sided affair as Jonathan has always loved Shane since they were young. This hidden love continued all the way to highschool when a girl named Carrie falls in love with Jonathan and asked him to skip school with her to go to Taipei via train. They have lots of fun before retiring to a cheap sleezy hotel where they begin to make out. At first, intense kisses were made before Jonathan stopped abruptly and escapes to the toliet. There we understand that Jonathan loves for Shane is much deeper than what it seems.

Carrie soon got Jonathan to admit his love for Shane and accepted it by promising Jonathan that she would not tell Shane about his secret love for him. True to her word, she didn't, however, when she was crying after Jonathan 'dumped' her, Shane consoled her and he asked her to be his girlfriend. Carrie replied in saying she would - if he made to university.

It is than shown that Shane did make it to the university and they started dating without either of them letting Jonathan know. All three of them continued to be of best friends as the show goes on and soon Jonathan finds out that Shane and Carrie were seeing each other.

The end is shown where Jonathan finally tells Shane about his love for him and Shane telling Jonathan that no matter it is, he will still be his best friend.

There is an abrupt end to the movie where the ending is for the viewer to guess on what happens between the three of them. For me, I feel that it the beginning of a new realtionship and friendship.

Each character of the story plays an important role in building up this romance. I'm happy to say that each actor played their roles very well despite being such a young cast.

There is only one scene where Jonathan and Shane make out with each other. In this scene is where you really wonder whether the boys are just acting or are really making love. It was done to perfection with Jonathan protesting at first, thinking that Shane was not right in the head and later give in to temptation.

What strikes me the most was the ending where Jonathan finally declares his love for Shane. This was probably the most touching part of the movie where Jonathan's obvious struggle to proclaim his love makes you sympathise him and cry with him as fear of being rejected by Shane or even destroying the friendship which both of them strongly built up over the years.

I highly recommend this movie to all yaoi lovers as be sure you would absoutely fall in love with these characters and the movie itself.