FR:Bangkok of the mind
The two lead actors and actresses from the coming-of-age romantic comedy, Rak Haeng Siam (Love of Siam- รักแห่งสยาม), which opens on Thursday.
These images were taken on Sunday at the AIS booth of the ICT expo, in a function to promote the film.
In the bottom shot, the boy on the left is 'Pitch' Wichawisit Hiranwongkul (พิช วิชญ์วิสิฐ หิรัญวงศ์กุล), and the boy on the right with the flat-looking hair is Mario Maurer.
Mario, a German Chinese raised in Thailand, is looking more like a foreigner every day, especially with that strange hairdo. Click on the pics to make them bigger.
The little guy in the middle is the director, Chukiat Sakweerakul (ชูเกียรติ ศักดิ์วีระกุล), who is barely older than his young cast.
As for the girls who take the lead female roles, according to the webboard buzz, few youngsters have noticed them, so distracted are they by the question of whether the film has a gay theme or gay scenes.
More encouraging evidence 令人感到鼓舞的跡象 that Rak Haeng Siam, opening in cinemas tomorrow, may have more gay content than the marketers would have us believe.
A Pantip webboard poster says the film's director, Chukiat Sakweerakul (ชูเกียรติ ศักดิ์วีระกุล - pictured above), talked about the gay theme同性戀主題 in an interview with Bioscope magazine.
He says the two male leads, Dong and Music (played by Mario Maurer, and 'Pitch' Wichawisit Hiranwongkul) love each other. It is but one kind of love among many explored in the coming-of-age film, but it's still there.
He says 'Sia' Jiang, head of Sahamongkol Films International which made the movie, initially feared the film would not sell, and put a hold on it.
Chukiat (also known as Ma-Deaw, or Matthew) busied himself with another project, the award-winning thriller, 13 Beloved เกมสยอง.13駭人遊戲
Q Flure - Kan Lae Kan (Each Other)
This seem like a fisrt solo project of Q from Flure(原屬本土公司Bakery Music,被SonyBMG買下) 'Kan Lae Kan' Ost. Love of Siam. And I relly love it that sweet meaning and nice video too.FR:xwattina
The new movie 'Love of Siam' that I really love to see it. Starring with many new face (they're really cute!) also Ploy Chermarn Boonyasak and Sinjai Plengpanich too. In theater this 22 November Coming soon .FR:xwattina
รักแห่งสยาม Rak Haeng Siam (Love of Siam)
FR:Bangkok of the mind
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, having lost 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.'
At the Pantip webboard, posters are asking whether it is a 'Y' film (gay). Judging by the production notes, that's just a small part of it. These are young people, after all, who are still in search of what love for them means, and where to place their loyalties: to girlfriends and boyfriends, parents, siblings, friends, or all of the above.
The Love of Siam被稱為泰國版的《盛夏光年》,
電影全長150分鍾(2.5小時),導演與編劇是只有26歲的Matthew Chookiat,電影拍攝經年,藉著暹羅廣塲節日璀璨的光影,捕捉了影片中充滿著錯愛的世情.....是今年泰國聖誕的賀節鉅片.
曼谷的暹羅廣塲(Siam Square)是青少年最愛留連的地方,小店林立,露天庭園歌聲廣播不斷.夾雜在大型商塲MBK, Discovery, Siam Centre及最新的Paragon之間;連接著BTS輕鐵的Siam Centre站,都是港人遊曼谷的熱點.
劇情如下:
Mew和Tong從小是鄰居也是同校的好朋友,有一次Tong全家人去清邁旅遊,結果Tong的姐姐在旅行中突然失去蹤影.Tong的父母很自責,其父更因此終日酗酒不理正事,Tong的母親一人辛苦工作支撐整個家庭,不久為了忘記不愉快的往事,Tong全家搬離曼谷.Mew與Tong從此失去聯系.
數年後,Mew在就讀的學校組了個名為"August"的樂團,樂團的自錄專輯在暹邏廣場一帶賣到斷貨.而Tong亦搬回曼谷,在暹邏廣場附近交了一個名叫Donut的漂亮女朋友.Tong無意間聽到"August"的歌曲,十分喜歡,但專輯已賣斷,卻正巧在CD店前見到正要離開的Mew.兩人終於在暹邏廣場再遇上.
戲劇性地,Mew樂團的新經理人June長得與Tong失蹤姐姐一模一樣.Mew於是介紹June給Tong認識.Tong與母親安排June扮作失蹤的姐姐住進Tong家,希望能幫助到因女兒失蹤酗酒的父親.
同時Mew正在創作聖誕演出的新歌,其經理人希望他能寫首溫馨的情歌,但Mew說自己從未戀愛過,不懂寫情歌.而Mew的鄰居Ying則一直暗戀著Mew,就算整條街道的人都在說Mew是個同性戀,她也毫不在意,在與Mew和Tong的相處中,Ying漸漸發覺兩個男孩子之間有著一種超越友誼的情感.....
Mew最後寫出了一首專為Tong而寫的感人情歌,並在Tong家舉辦的派對中首次演唱,贏得眾人的一致讚賞,同時Tong也終於開始禁不了自己的情感,在Party結束後吻了Mew,但卻被前來收拾碗碟的Tong的媽媽看在眼裏.
Tong的媽媽是一個基督教徒,多年來一個人辛辛苦苦,不僅要照顧還在唸書的Tong，也要照顧已爛成酒鬼的丈夫,同時她的心裏也在為自己女兒的走失而自責.當她發現Tong和Mew的情感,她開始害怕Tong會走上一條不歸路,而此時丈夫亦因多年酗酒過渡造成肝臟壞死而逝世,多重壓力於一身的她終於崩潰.她去找Mew希望他中止和Tong的關係.此時Ying就在門外聽著……
Mew在無意間發現Ying房間藏了很多自己的照片,才知道Ying暗戀自己很久,Ying卻很坦然的面對Mew,她反而安慰痛不欲生的Mew說:"哪里有愛,哪里就有希望!"
此時聖誕節就要到了,Mew卻無法再唱出情歌,Tong在母親家庭與Mew之間兩難,兩人迷失於廣場街頭,他們不知何去何從.......
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