Elisheva

it's on GagaOOLala

found raw, hoping for subtitles....

not on Film Archive Thailand
10 minute clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrutczkrRgk

trailer and info on Film Archive Thailand's YT channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-S-krIgkc
haven't been able to find the movie itself แพรดำ 2504
Thailand's first film noir

This is really lovely. It's simple of course, given the time, but well done. Women in their 30s, finding themselves, and each other.

Look for this under Rak Kham Khan. "The Scenery of Love" will only get you to a trailer. And don't read the plot summary under that trailer. It will give pretty much everything away.

Sometimes an age gap really is daddy issues. This reads as a young woman's fantasy of gaining her father's love repressed into a tsundere-tsundere age gap all-male romance. (Mum has no presence here other than dying alongside dad.) With perhaps some rejection of dad and certainly a desire to be seen and loved for who she is. Imagine this as het coming of age rather than BL and it's hard to see otherwise.
It's weak as a coming of age film too, which is disappointing from a country which does them so well - with cliches carrying everything through.
Workaholic older man who can't commit - they didn't even explore it as his regrets for his life or starting over. The young man's beauty is the only reason stated for his feelings.
The sunshine love rival's infatuation makes even less sense.
Some theatre-like delivery and the reticence of the characters makes this stark at times. Which is fine, but it needs a richer story to work.

it is strange reading reviews and comments which use words like 'light' and 'cute' when parts of it took me right into my grief. i guess it hits differently depending on your life experience.

loved the way they integrated humour through it, the different strands each had their own flavour

I found a raw for this. If you know where to find subs, would you kindly let me know? Thanks.

Closest to a het romance is a high school crush, but that's not a focus. To me, it's very much worth watching. Complex story, well-crafted, worthy of Ton in lead.

He is. Have you seen Rhythm of Life (Thai PBS, direct link on title page)? Fantastic youth lakorn. Don't be put off by band kids, it's really good :)

it's on gagaoolala

Maybes (movies highlighted during Taiwan's Pride month) - Bad to Bed, Silent Sparks

Living with Him - on hold after ep 2. it's alright enough but there isn't enough to keep me here. maybe as filler during something stressful? doesn't seem like it will be one i'll remember

Accomplishment of a Fudanshi Bartender - dropped 15 mins ep 1 or so. After two excellent J send-ups of yaoi, this fell very flat. Finished it after all. The whole shipping thing is lost on me.

on Gaga with subs https://www.gagaoolala.com/en/videos/1146/bao-bao-2018

The lakorn didn't want that at all. It portrayed her as a young woman in immense, overwhelming pain, struggling to prioritise her needs because no one else will, and acting out of that pain and struggle. She works through that, comes to terms with everything and returns to who she really is with more insight, resilience and maturity. And the courage she found. She grew so much.
Try thinking of this as two tightly interwoven stories (full length lakorns always have multiple stories with interconnections) - where S&S are characters in Pin's story as well as her being one in theirs.

No, it's something which keeps happening. You're doing it as well, and not just for the characters but for me and 'some of you.' Minimising her emotions and the overwhelming, soul-crushing pain she was under and maximising her actions. She was too caught up in that pain to 'decide' to do anything, it was reaction. She did care. Again, minimising her emotions.
Minimising S&S's actions in putting her in that much pain, maximising their emotions, 'pure good faith'.
I'm not defending her actions, what she did was wrong. Her pain doesn't make any of that right. It does make it understandable and something to feel compassion for.
But what I'm talking about above are differences in where emphasis is placed and the weight given to the components.
So thanks I guess for putting examples right here.

You wrote "a fantasy tale of betrayal she herself imagined, made herself the martyr hero of, pickled in self-pity and victimhood"
Those are pretty nasty words.
And in your longer replies you're ignoring the role the deep pain she was in played. She acted from that and she wasn't thinking clearly. She couldn't hear what Rachawadee was telling her. Not because fantasy or delulu but because of overwhelming pain brought on by the men's actions, especially Sasin with whom she had such a long and close history.
So much crushing her down - her parents, societal expectations, being left out, everyone else deciding things for her, Sasin, Saenkaew - and she cracked under it all.
And when she had some time to come to terms with it, she certainly came through for the men.
She wasn't delulu and she wasn't 'imagining a fantasy tale of betrayal'. She was in overwhelming, soul-crushing pain.

There's this fascinating thing going on in the comments which I just realised - for many here, the men's emotions matter so much more than their actions re Pin, but it's the opposite for Pin. For many here (but not the directors and writers) her actions (because they impact the men's story) are maximised while her emotions are minimised.
This is a multi-story lakorn with two of its lines tightly intertwined. The men are characters in hers too. Why is it so difficult for many to see this? If her actions matter in their story, theirs matter just as much in hers. Likewise her emotions.

Consider it from Pin's POV. What she heard from that conversation. What they were planning was going to have a significant impact on her life and they were doing it without any input from her.
It was Sasin's ACTIONS, not his and Saenkaew's emotions, which were the betrayal. And from Sasin - the only person in the world who loved her - especially.
But to call it a fantasy? Seriously?
If you want to focus on the men's emotions, don't write hers off.