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Love of Siam is one of the movies you should look out for in the cinema, if you are in Thailand this holiday season. While the movie was initially marketed as a straight teenage love story, it is actually a love story between 2 teenage boys.
The coming of age drama is set in the heart of Bangkok city, Siam Square, where most Thai teenagers hang out after school. The movie is hailed by viewers as a romantic drama with both depth and quality. With 2 very handsome male leads, this movie has certainly caught the attention of female fans, as well as the local gay community =p
Movie Brief from http://bkkmindscape.blogspot.com:
Love of Siam (รักแห่งสยาม) is directed by Chukiat Sakweerakul (ชูเกียรติ ศักดิ์วีระกุล), who made the award-winning thriller 13 Beloved. He says it is the story of many kinds of love, as viewed through the eyes of Tong (Mario), a sixth-form student whose sister disappeared when he was still a child, and who carries around that emotional scar. When we first meet him, Tong has a girlfriend. However, Tong slowly distances himself from her, after he is reunited with a childhood friend, Music (Pitch). Music has a talent for singing and piano, and is trying to compose a love song for a music label. However, living alone without his parents, he has little experience of love himself, so Tong tries to help him. Music has his own admirer, a girl living next door. She and Tong’s girlfriend have one thing in common: they can’t seem to get the attention of the man they want.
Through Music, Tong meets a girl who runs his band. June looks remarkably like his sister, who went missing on a trip to the North years before. Since she left, Tong’s father has been a miserable drunk. With his mother, Tong hatches a plan to hire the girl to look after Dad, in the hope that having her around will make his father better. Many of the film’s key moments take place in Siam Square, a popular teenage hangout in Bangkok. Director Chukiart, 26, says he started writing the script when he was a student at Chulalongkorn University, which is nearby. ‘People meet lovers, fall apart, go out with friends, laugh, and cry in Siam Square,’ he says. ‘It’s a classic, but it has been years since a film was set there.’
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