電影心得寫作
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Title |
The Love of Siam |
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Director |
Sukanya Vongsthapat |
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Genre |
Romantic-drama film |
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Cast |
Witwisit Hiranyawongkul as Mew Mario Maurer as Tong Kanya Rattanapetch as Ying Chermarn Boonyasak as Tang/June Sinjai Plengpanich as Sunee, Tong's mother Songsit Rungnopakunsri as Korn, Tong's father |
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Review |
The Love of Siam was received with critical acclaim upon its release. Bangkok Post film critic Kong Rithdee called the film "groundbreaking", in terms of being the first Thai film "to discuss teenagers' sexuality with frankness". He praised the mature, realistic family drama aspects of the film, as well as the solid performances, particularly by Sinjai Plengpanich as the mother Sunee. Another Bangkok Post commentator, Nattakorn Devakula, said the film contained important lessons for Thai society. "The point that the film attempts to teach viewers – and a largely conservative Thai society – is that love is an evolved form of emotional attachment that transcends sexual attraction of the physical form." A reviewer for The Nation called the film "brilliantly conceived". The movie also reached a rating of 8.3 (out of 10) on the Internet Movie Database. |
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Summary of Plot |
Two young boys are best friends living quiet family lives in Bangkok. Their lives are disrupted when one boy's older sister goes missing on a jungle trip. The shattered family moves away, separating the boys. Years later, now in their late teens, the boys meet again. One of them is now the leader of an aspiring boy band whose managing assistant bears a striking resemblance to the lost sister. The boys must deal with their family and social lives and their feelings for each other. |
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Afterthought |
The film essays not only the two young guys reunion and inevitable attraction but also a family's slow and painful road to accepting a long-delayed reality. I would like to think that The Love of Siam, above everything else, seeks to reaffirm the life-affirming values of loving and being loved without sacrificing the portrayal of the very palpable pain that usually accompanies the emotion.
The Love of Siam strives to say something more about the act of loving, whether romantically or familial: that it is more a nebulous network-like journey to maintain hope than a straight path to the assumed happy ending.
In fact, The Love of Siam ends without any of its characters fulfilling the traditional conclusions of a love story. There are no happily-ever-afters or expected closures. Instead, the film ends with a mere spark of hope. That hope that closes the film actually opens up million of possibilities for its characters, as numerous as the countless fortuitous encounters in Siam Square that initiate relationships between strangers or abruptly conclude long-standing affairs all within the fateful movement of time.
Through the interconnected lives of two boys who are on the verge of self-awareness amidst their own individual conflicts and the people surrounding them, the movie notes that love survives notwithstanding the dilemmas that pervade the world. As a translated Chinese song in the movie, "as long as there is love, there is hope." Corny as it sounds, The Love of Siam thrives on that noble aspiration, without knowing that it does so. |
這部片想呈現的不僅僅是兩個少年的重逢及對彼此無法阻擋的吸引，也帶出了家庭為了接受一個長期拖延的事實、真相所需走過的漫長痛苦道路。我認為愛在暹邏這部片中最想要重新帶出有關於生活中在愛人與被愛時所伴隨情感而來的痛苦。
愛在暹邏這部片努力想強調的並不是一般愛情常見的模式，舉凡浪漫或類似的東西。相較於值達完美結局的平順道路，這部片更想說出在一段矇矓不清的旅程中維持希望的重要。
事實上，有別於一般愛情劇，這部片中每一個角色最後都不是以完滿幸福結束，相反的，這部片以一絲希望的星火來代替完美的結局。
以這樣的希望來結束這部片卻帶給片中所有的角色後續發展的無限可能，在暹邏廣場這地方發生所的無以計數的際遇，也已恰好的時機開啟了陌生人間的關係、或替長期維持(僵直)的愛情、曖昧做了一個結論。
透過兩個(身處於各自內心衝突、矛盾的)少年之間的交聯、關係及他們身邊週遭的人們，這部片最後指出，就算世界是如此充斥了矛盾及困窘，愛依然存在。
就像片中一首中文歌所說：只要有愛，就有希望，儘管簡單老陳，但愛在暹邏這部片還是發揚了這偉大的希望…
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