The Love of Siam

Director: Chukiat Sakveerakul
Screenwriter: Chukiat Sakveerakul
Cast: Witwisit Hirunyawongku
Mario Maurer
Laila Boonyasak

What are humans do in a real world that is not tamed by our rule?
What can we possibly do if we cannot bear to lose the one we love?
What if we go on life without loving anyone at all?

Through the interconnected lives of two boys who are on the verge of self-awareness amidst their own individual conflicts and the people surrounding them, The Love of Siam as simply a gay teen romance is to misjudge its power and intention. Within the two and a half hour running time of the film, it’s not only the two young leads' reunion and inevitable attraction but also a family's slow and painful road to accepting a long-delayed reality.

The director ended up choosing as plot construction regarding characters' emotions and actions. Instead of picking the conventional expression that would usually indicate 'sad', 'she is going to blow up', and 'angry', the scenes selected to continue the flow and plot of the movie are rather life-like.

Therefore I suppose the reason so many people like this movie because it exemplifies humanity's constrained reaction. This movie doesn't construct explicitly the events and personality surrounding each character as concrete context of the story, which is often a technique used by mainstream films to materialize climax and logic of a movie's plot. Also, I enjoy the mellow and subtle plot-weaving, and the overall picture painted by the music.