Red white & royal blue

Red white & royal blue, a New York Times Best Seller book.

Amazon produced a motion picture based on the book and relased it in its Prime Video this August. Upon so many five stars given by watchers and/or the book readers, I happened to watch this though I'd not known what this movie was all about. It simply features "what if the son of the American President and the prince in Britain love each other?"

Well, time has changed; this kind of fantacy often feasures a beauty and a prince charming in a conventional manner such as "Cinderella" (or "Ever After" starred by Drew Barrymore), "the Snow White" or "Beauty and the Beast": All of them are about a romance on heterosexual: a man and a woman.

But this movie is what is called "Bromance", kind of a Boy's love story between a prince charming and a boy charming. Besides its sexual orientation, it was a fun to watch to me as a romantic comedy. I'm also surprised that the movie industry doesn't reckon the LGBTQ matter a taboo or a burden in our society any longer by having the same-sex romance including its frustrations, barriers, conflicts and problems happened so naturally in this movie in the same way as we human beings would encounter generally when we are into someone.

Among them, I also found that this movie had a lot of ideality overcoming gaps in gender, race and social status: the American president's son called Alex in this movie is a child between a white sucsessful mother who's the first female President in the U.S. (not yet to exist in the real world) and an immigrant father from Mexico and he said about his racial struggles in his line. Alex's boyfriend, His Royal Highness Prince Henry (oh, not a real one. only in this movie, though) were forced to fake that he was straight by dating girls because the Royal Family headed by the King is homophobia.

Alex's speach after his relationship with the Prince was leaked is such an astonishing part in this movie: it contains a valuable to the world we see in reality now. It makes me pray all of the people can be their selves without wearing a fake mask on.

Again, this movie helped me re-realise that the world is changing. DO hope and pray that everyone loves someone who he/she/they would like to love and gets loved by someone who loves them most.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/video/detail/B0BYNG3N33/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

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