Faith versus Love and Duty
Though I am not Catholic, I am a Christian and consider myself a strong person of faith. I went into this drama a little skeptical about how it would represent having strong faith - specifically religion. It seems like so much media now puts down people and having faith in a God as being naive or bigoted. I have to say that they for the most part treated people that are religious and believe in God in a respectful manner. The acting was excellent, especially for this genre. Maybe it was because they took longer in producing and creating this drama. Maybe they had longer workshops to be able to really feel their characters. But when you compare it to some of the more recent dramas on right now (I’m looking at you “Knot”) it really impressed me how this could have been a movie that would’ve been an Oscar contender. I very much got lost in the characters and believed them as real people outside of a BL pairing.
The production and cinematography was also beautiful. And the intro song to the show was not only different than the usual generic Thai pop song, but very melodiously sung.
I would say the only part of the storyline that I questioned a little bit is the fact that they focused on Tan’s struggle over being a Priest or not without really mentioning the bigger issue in the Catholic faith, which would be his (and Barth) being a homosexual. I’m pretty sure that that would have gotten them both kicked out of the school for that alone. But they made it sound like the bigger problem was whether or not Tan wanted to be ordained as a priest. As if his struggle was just deciding that alone, and not the reasons WHY he would not want to be a priest…which is that he was gay.
At first I thought six episodes wouldn’t be long enough, but I think that they did a really good job of telling the story in that amount of time without running out of quality episodes. I would highly recommend this to anyone who sometimes has questioned love over duty over God. It’s a very interesting take that they made here. I believe that you can have love and have God and serve him in many different ways. But it is a balancing act, and in the end, if you are a person of faith, you have to be honest and admit that God would, or should, be your number one priority. But as humans, sometimes we need to be reminded .
The production and cinematography was also beautiful. And the intro song to the show was not only different than the usual generic Thai pop song, but very melodiously sung.
I would say the only part of the storyline that I questioned a little bit is the fact that they focused on Tan’s struggle over being a Priest or not without really mentioning the bigger issue in the Catholic faith, which would be his (and Barth) being a homosexual. I’m pretty sure that that would have gotten them both kicked out of the school for that alone. But they made it sound like the bigger problem was whether or not Tan wanted to be ordained as a priest. As if his struggle was just deciding that alone, and not the reasons WHY he would not want to be a priest…which is that he was gay.
At first I thought six episodes wouldn’t be long enough, but I think that they did a really good job of telling the story in that amount of time without running out of quality episodes. I would highly recommend this to anyone who sometimes has questioned love over duty over God. It’s a very interesting take that they made here. I believe that you can have love and have God and serve him in many different ways. But it is a balancing act, and in the end, if you are a person of faith, you have to be honest and admit that God would, or should, be your number one priority. But as humans, sometimes we need to be reminded .
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