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The coloring is more purposeful than you think. The bright coloring, I am pretty sure, were only recurrent during the "past" scene after Jom time traveled, while the scenes in modern time, was sort of "normal" if not a bit darker. It's probably for nostalgic reasons since the bright colorization was used in many Spanish (I think) telenovelas which were quite a thing in SEA back then. Pretty sure old Thai lakorns also adopted this style of colorization like old Indonesian sinetrons. They tended to be either too bright or too dark.

Exactly, I remember handphone wasn't even used in my hometown widely until late 2000s, and phonebooth was a thing, but my mom literally owned the only phone in my town before and it didn't even exist in the nearby city. I don't remember what year exactly, but definitely 1990s. It was quite a profitable business until handphone came along.

There really upping the suspense and ambiguity for season 2 with this one. cause if Jom didn't return in the next episode, then we're absolutely getting the 2nd one.

These people who called the plot too "slow" don't even know what "plot" even is. They see a long scene and called it "slow moving plot" like as if we didn't have heartbreak, car crash, and time travel in the first episode.

I wouldn't say I feel you linger in the air is a Lakorn. It is historical, but not really a "Lakorn" because of the writing style. It's not overtly dramatic the way Laws of Attraction is. The easiest way, at least for me personally, to differentiate between "Lakorn" (which is also a kind of genre on its own in basically Southeast Asia and South Asia), is the evil guys tend to be absolutely evil. Like that corrupt old fart from "To Sir, with Love" or the councilman in "Laws of Attraction". Robert on the other hand was shown to be more "human", just look at how he treated his second wife in the latest episode, where he wanted her to be part of the family. I feel that IFLITA is more down sincere than the other two because, well, they are clearly a lakorn, hence the overly dramatization. IFLITA didn't have such overly dramatization.

I am not saying that there are no drama, the scene where Jom cried and being dumped by Ohm is clearly a very dramatize scene, but it wasn't overly dramatize if that make sense. Like that scene in "To Sir, With Love" where the mother was dying and still managed to speak for a long time even though others died quickly to the poison. I hope that makes sense

Director isn't the only one in the production team, there are producer and screenwriters, and sometimes even the actors' agency meddling with the production as well, so even if you have good director and actors, and the director have good vision of the film, things still can get messy if there is no synergy with the rest of the production. I was also worried when I knew the director was the one in Step by Step, but I am glad they tone down the "holier than thou" attitude in this one. Jom's rampage on the episode 4 was good while mantaining the comedic side, and didn't feel preachy or shoving the message down everybody's throat.

I think you're mistaken dragging scene with slow pace, because pace is all about moving events/plot progression. Like if they dwell on the break up and OhmJom for the rest of the episode, that would be slow. A scene with many shots of the scenery is a drag/slow scene. Some people enjoy a slower scene that let you bask in the mise-en-scene and some people don't. Trust me if the pace got any faster, we'll be in Mars already.

Yes I disagree with you, mise-en-scene is an important part of this series, at leas the first episode, and in fact, they played a lot with the cinematography rather than literature elements. Or rather, they moved some of literature elements function from boring dialogues into cinematography instead, or Showing rather than Tell, that's why if you didn't notice, the dialogue, more often than not, focus more on the characters' personal feeling rather the nitty-gritty stuff like foreshadow. In fact, the scene that you said had "no purpose" is actually the foreshadow scene. The scene also serves as a tone indicator, which is important for first episode, to hook people with similar interest to the somewhat serene and melancholic tone of the series. You can't just put weird jump scare noises and expect people to be scared. It's definitely for those who enjoy a more emotional build up kinda films, but even then, THIS IS NOT SLOW PACE.

It's not his fault to fall in love, but he cheated instead of breaking it with Jom first.. It's absolutely his fault that he cheated and left his lover back at home for 2 years who managed to keep it in his pants, unlike Ohm. So yeah, it's totally his fault that he cheated.

You got LDR, break-up, ghost sighting, carcrash, and time travel within the first episode, which is 1 hour long... How much faster you want them to run?