Lockdown Lovers

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I think it takes a year or two, and in lockdown you don’t really know that person in multiple contexts: what they’re like their friends; when they are working in the office; when they are being sociable. as a lover of heady scents think oud, jasmines etc this ticks the box of an almost incense ( without all the chemicals) well it does to me anyway. We see academics and tutors navigating the liminal space of online teaching, some forming new connections and others, cameras off, hiding inside “black boxes”. While people may be social-distancing, the shared experience of the virus offers a new kind of proximity.

Lockdown Lovers is available to watch on Vimeo OnDemand from September 4 and will be launching on streaming service Tubi later in the year.Lilydale Films has amassed a global audience through their hit web-series Flunk, which garnered 150 million views across YouTube and sparked two spin-off feature films. Even as O’Sullivan’s characters lament a lost Hong Kong, he reminds us “how individual one’s view of the future is” and that “we don’t all view it in a single, collective way”. We were regularly having that conversation after one of Boris Johnson’s press briefings, asking each other, are we still cool with this set up? While tensions with mainland China are certainly exacerbated by the pandemic, not in the least when Hong Kong’s “huge surplus” is sent away as aid, Hong Kong is now engaged in a struggle with itself. They had met on the dating app Hinge and were meeting up a couple of times a week before coronavirus hit, going on dates and slowly starting to meet each other’s friends.

While they are reduced to “fearful, darting eyes”, they are also more human than ever, with their familiar prejudices and moments of dark humour, both comforted and bored by the “mundanity” of lockdown life. Lockdown Lovers is available to watch on Vimeo OnDemand and will be launching on streaming service Tubi later in the year. I knew it was meant as a kind of gasp of shock at the end of their plea, a crowning moment of appeal. More than a third of people newly living with a partner believed that two months of lockdown felt like the equivalent of two years of commitment. But O’Sullivan riffs on this newness, and in a refreshing shift of binaries, it no longer just Beijing legislation that has transformed the city into the “dystopian vision”, but the city’s own immune system.With Lockdown Lovers, the established fan base and hopefully newcomers, will get a new story that speaks to the type of content that they want to see, which is not found on traditional media. With nowhere to go, Kristal accepts Lisette's invitation to stay with her, until the pandemic is over. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The love story, while passionate, is fleeting and altogether less meaningful than some of the friendships in the novel.

Lilydale Films has proven their own track record and fan base loyalty through previous feature films, Afterschool and The Sleepover. A few weeks of lockdown turned into a few months, and quickly it felt like their relationship had switched up several gears.Catharine*, 27, and Kyle*, 30*, were just three months into their relationship when lockdown restrictions were announced. But for every whirlwind romance that worked out this year, there are plenty that couldn’t take the intensity of pandemic. I think the big thing will be how our relationship will be in normal life, because we have been in such a bubble with each other. I’m also certain that years from now, we will have a wide selection of novels and films set during our pandemic, one we will continue to live through until the world is vaccinated. But for fledgling lockdown relationships across the country, the real test will be in the coming months.