The criticism I have is that Punnsanak forgets that he is making a film and that he is not in a play. In a film,…
What is interminable and boring is the constantly recurring yammering over his style and him being influenced by his theatrical background. Both 180 Longitude Passes Through Us and 7 Days Before Valentine are beautifully filmed and full of striking cinematic resources, gorgeous shots, splendid visuals, symbols and fully cinematic images.
The world cinema is full of movies influenced by the theatre where the dialogue is dominant like this. Twelve Angry Men or Network from Sidney Lumet, Marty from Delbert Mann, All About Eve from Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Judgement at Nuremberg, Ship of Fools or Guess Who's Coming to Dinner from Stanley Kramer, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf from Mike Nichols, Lion in Winter from Anthony Harvey or Occupe-toi d'Amélie from Claude Autant-Lara are all heavily dialogue-driven movies (jut a handful of examples, and only 2 of those above are based on stage plays) and they are all cinematic masterpieces at the the same time.
Your rigid insistence that cinema and theatre are a irreconcilably different and there must be a confine grinded by an axe is baseless (cinema itself is an anti-thesis of that) and it is nothing but your personal hangup. It certainly does not make his cinematic efficiency any less real, rewarding or legitimate. That is his directorial choice. If it is not your cup of tea, then be it.
Those who have dismissed, abandoned and trashed this series for its lack of BL romance, kisses, skinship and the…
Those who have seen enough Thai shows about soul reapers must be familiar with the fact that the best they can hope for is their soul being reborn to a new life, since they have already died, and we know Q has committed suicide, probably long ago. This story takes some liberty with the usual Buddhist rules and also embraces some Christian spirit in the wake of Faust, but it is better to brace yourselves for a non-conventional ending and not a traditionally happy one.
Those who have dismissed, abandoned and trashed this series for its lack of BL romance, kisses, skinship and the usual fangirl tropes are truly missing out on a heart-wrenchingly beautiful, touching, deeply moving, thought-provoking and arrestingly acted emotional journey. Their loss. And a big one.
I am nearly 100% sure it is heading towards a bittersweet ending, and I do not mind it.
This doesn't necessarily change anything plot-wise. Maybe Non was not ready to be in an official relationship…
You make loads of wild and baseless assumptions. In the trailer the faces are not clearly shown, one's face is blurry while the other one doing BJ is covered by the bars on the window. But even if they were and they knew each other before Phee and Non got together, it means nothing. Their life did not start when Phee and Non met, Phee and Jin could have been FWB before Phee met Non, or even afterwards since FWB means no strings attached. It is not even 100% that Non was calling Phee and it was Phee who did not pick it up (though likely), but the reason behind him being not available must have been Jin is also rather too savage and based on an already not very feasible assumption as well.
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This doesn't necessarily change anything plot-wise. Maybe Non was not ready to be in an official relationship with Phee back then but they stayed FWB. But it is also possible that he agreed and they had been together since, they just did not make it public.
He literally said I don't want to be your FWB anymore I want to be lovers. Maybe all 3 of them were together somehow...but…
We only saw him banging on the door. He could have run over to Non's house and run upstairs, since I guess Non did not pick up his calls either, just lik he did not take Jin's calls.
I guess people misunderstand Day. He seems like triggering his bother to be true to himself and creates a situation where he is forced to acknowledge and confess his feelings to Night.
Another case when a gay student is chased into his death by his monster parents but the poor guy apologizes and thanking them to bring him up so well before killing himself.
How fucking I hate this I have no words for. When do Asian shows start to stop this bullshit?
The last 3 weeks' proceedings were extremely rushed and all over the place, and it gave me the expression they made it up as they went along.
Most of the character arcs were unbelievably speedy and hardly persuasive, Harry and Acosta both had too easy ways out of their crimes, Obet's death was ridiculous and absurdly illogical as well as Acosta's sudden transformation from a coldly calculating evil mastermind into a crazy nutcase inexplicably obsessed with one of his preys. At the finale all the remaining characters are all of a sudden so nice and sweet to each other. Poch's mother suddenly appears at the graduation while previously she could not be arsed to show up when his son was in life-threatening danger and Edith now miraculously has no problem with Tim's choice. And where the hell Gino has gone?
It really seems like the production team had 3 weeks to finish the show and they had to come up with ideas on brainstorming.
I was very impressed with this series for many reasons, especially acting-wise and despite its faults, but these last 3 weeks were largely disappointing to me.
I have been on and on about this for a very long time like a crazy parrot but so few people seem to reckon with…
Not to mention the masked guy started to mess up with Koon from the day they moved in, when Khun and Taw have not even met Vit. Yet, the possession scenario also makes sense, especially when we see Vit's sinister smile when Taw did not see his face. If there's not gonna be some twist then it is really lazy writing.
The world cinema is full of movies influenced by the theatre where the dialogue is dominant like this. Twelve Angry Men or Network from Sidney Lumet, Marty from Delbert Mann, All About Eve from Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Judgement at Nuremberg, Ship of Fools or Guess Who's Coming to Dinner from Stanley Kramer, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf from Mike Nichols, Lion in Winter from Anthony Harvey or Occupe-toi d'Amélie from Claude Autant-Lara are all heavily dialogue-driven movies (jut a handful of examples, and only 2 of those above are based on stage plays) and they are all cinematic masterpieces at the the same time.
Your rigid insistence that cinema and theatre are a irreconcilably different and there must be a confine grinded by an axe is baseless (cinema itself is an anti-thesis of that) and it is nothing but your personal hangup. It certainly does not make his cinematic efficiency any less real, rewarding or legitimate. That is his directorial choice. If it is not your cup of tea, then be it.
I am nearly 100% sure it is heading towards a bittersweet ending, and I do not mind it.
Top seemed to be possessed at the end of episode 4, after his disappearance in the woods.
How fucking I hate this I have no words for. When do Asian shows start to stop this bullshit?
Most of the character arcs were unbelievably speedy and hardly persuasive, Harry and Acosta both had too easy ways out of their crimes, Obet's death was ridiculous and absurdly illogical as well as Acosta's sudden transformation from a coldly calculating evil mastermind into a crazy nutcase inexplicably obsessed with one of his preys. At the finale all the remaining characters are all of a sudden so nice and sweet to each other. Poch's mother suddenly appears at the graduation while previously she could not be arsed to show up when his son was in life-threatening danger and Edith now miraculously has no problem with Tim's choice. And where the hell Gino has gone?
It really seems like the production team had 3 weeks to finish the show and they had to come up with ideas on brainstorming.
I was very impressed with this series for many reasons, especially acting-wise and despite its faults, but these last 3 weeks were largely disappointing to me.