She's Dating the Gangster

Aussie here - first viewing in 2022. Coz trending on #Netflix - I loved this film - Athena the new girl at school comes to the attention of the leader of the Gangsters because she stood up to him (Kenji). Kenji bullies her to be his fake girlfriend to make his previous girlfriend jealous to try and win her back. I think he secretly respected Athena because she stubbornly would not give into him until he made it impossible for her to say NO to her being his girlfriend with the whole jumping off the building thing.

The jealous girls of the school also come after her, bullying and physically hurting Athena. Kenji goes into protective mode because he realizes he has created a dangerous situation for Athena.

Kenji's main goal was to get his previous girlfriend back but he falls in love with his fake girlfriend. There is so so much more to this move than what I have said above. I love this movie!

At first I watch this because I thought it looked funny and I saw a lot of people talking about it, so I decided to watch it when I saw it on Netflix ,and I was left for surprise even tho this movie had a lot of silly moments ,the ending had me bawling my eyes out. What I thought I was gonna get was far more than what they give me so I would say ,give this movie a chance and yes there is a lot of silly/ cringy parts but remember this was filmed in 2014 so like 9 years ago. But I really enjoyed it, so can't really complain on anything but Little parts like the wigs and all cause the story made all of those things look like small things.

At first i thought this would just be a fun and fluffy rom-com from the description on Netflix. Boy was I wrong. This movie was heavy on the drama and the way the past and present intertwined was absolutely fantastic. Over all it was a beautiful movie and definitely worth the watch.