Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

bob bob Perhap,I think it a shame on them to think only a thing that you should be expected from Asian homosexual boy is a "money&honey" why don't rethink we are in the same earth and need the same love conceptional ,too There are many ways of love to be demonstrated in this 2hours drama movie and the tastes of love or to belove is magnified people together such as their family,friends,...etc. but there're not sexscences in this warmly movie as US DVD version pictorial promotes.May be you're not mislead by producers but you're mislead by perception&expects.Frankly,I saw French,Thai, or even US black melodrama but I don't think this is a black melodrama film ,because this movie communicate a widely range of emotions,not especially tragic storyline.Maybe the ways of love is no definitions,expectations,inconclusive paths or any determinations to be conducted love. Just love or belove. It's no more exceeding.

capram2 I saw this film this year for the first time. It is a very heart-touching film. I want to be very short on this film. It is a GREAT film about love. About all kinds of love and how important it is to have a family. Hard was to hear the sentence: I can not be your boyfriend, however I love you. Cute actors and nice music. It is a long film: nearly 3 hours. But nice to watch and think. Coming out is in this film is on a natural way. The mother is afraid of loosing her son but she see at the end that the best is to let her son to choose what he wants to be. This film give me a good impression of the way of live in Asia. How people are with each other and the way of greeting each other.

shizofree I am normally not a fan of romance stories. It's deluded and fantastical that it raises the viewers' expectations for their own sweet and happy ending. It's a pessimistic point of view but that's the reality I've seen so far, I'm used to it.Rak Hang Siam (The Love of Siam), a Thai film by Chookiat Sakveerakul, tells an amazing story that cross cultural differences, and this maybe the prime reason why the movie is amazing.Despite it being located in Bangkok, familiar food, traditions and even localities makes it transcendent towards a broader audience, especially in the Philippines. It feels like a Filipino film without overacting and overrated actors doing their own dramatic sequences. This movie is grounded in subtlety and silent epiphanies, which we never do.At 2 hours and 59 minutes (Director's Cut) and 2 hours 30 minutes (DVD release), the movie tells about a story about neighbors Mew (Witwisit Hiranyawongkul) and Tong (Mario Maurer) who are separated after the loss of the latter's sister, Tang (Chermarn Boonyasak). Five years later, they cross paths in a commercial district named Siam Square. This district becomes a meeting point between all the main characters. Even in that length of a movie, it's justifiable for its capability of developing the characters involved.The movie's cinematography is its weak point. Chookiat may be used to horror and thriller films that it sometimes shown within the film, but it's unnoticeable at first. Some metaphors he used could've been better shown in a horror film. Scenes mostly alternate between schools, rooms, studio and Siam Square. It may be that way to express the universality of this film. Product placements are subtle and funny but it fits within the film, iMacs and Pepsi Max mostly.The cast is amazing. Young Mew and Tong closely resemble the older counterparts while still making Tang and their mother Sunee (Sinjai Plengpanich) look like they are related. Tong's father, Korn (Songsit Rungnopakunsri) looks like a man on the verge of alcoholism. The acting of each character is remarkable. Sinjai, most of all, played an extremely broken woman but still manages to keep her family intact. Witwisit and Mario had noticeable chemistry while still keeping it subtle. I sometimes think that they may be playing characters too young for them. But age was never stated so I forgo the suspicion. The character development is the movie's highest point.The music is why I watch it repeatedly. As one of the characters are musically inclined, the melodies involved in this movie should be amazing, which I think it is. The movie delivers the music as part of the movie, but not as to intrude the realism. It's not a musical yet, the feelings of the characters are said thru music. Ticket (Day Trip) by Chookiat Sakveerakul & August Band is the arguably the best track of the movie and the OST, followed closely by Gun Lae Gun กันและกัน (Acoustic) sung by Witwisit during the movie but not available in the album. I may not understand the lyrics but the melody itself is enough to make me listen more.Rak Hang Siam proved itself as an effective film that tells the story of the reality of love. Situations maybe different, but the main point is there. There's always the meeting and a separation, no matter what kind love exist between them.

edwinicq I can see where the previous commentator came from. However, maybe biased by my own liking of mellow and subtle plot-weaving, I enjoyed the overall picture painted by the music, 2 main actors, and the parents and June.I personally favor this movie because it doesn't construct/explain 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 (e.g. she acts/feels this way because it was established that she was such and such...).Therefore I suppose the reason so many people like this movie literally across the globe (mainly observed on forums from the United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Philippines, and Europe), is because it uses a Thai case to exemplify humanity's constrained reaction toward its surrounding.Without spoiling the movie, I am referring to the scenes 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: Life doesn't always present significant events with significant background music and conventional cues, which often supports both the actors and audiences in moving the drama (or movie in this case) along.So my friends and I love the movie for such illumination that: if the contemporary cultures often internalize certain procedures, cues, and embodiment that connect external events and internal reactions/feelings, what are humans to do in a real world that is not tamed by our rule?Maybe from a more speculative audience's eye: what can we possibly do if we cannot bear to lose the one we love, and what if we go on life without loving anyone at all? The movie achieves a 9/10 for me despite its weak elements (some acting are definitely...not so great, but I don't speak Thai and don't know the culture), exactly because it constructs a unconventional platform (the acting, climax-devices, the music, and plot) and operates consistently along its story-telling (a gradually broadening perspective of love across generation (Mew-grandmother), time/space (Tong's family & sister), gender (Mew & Tong), and the peripheral Others (the Chinese-Thai Ying and her crush on Mew, and the Catholic family)).