My friend brought with him the famous Thai’s “Love of Siam” Director’s Cut version (no missing scenes, no cut!) and we watched it with a full understanding of the dialogues since it has English sub-title. The one shown openly in the cinema was two hours and thirty minutes while the Director's cut version is three hours and ten minutes.I must admit that I'm not the only one in tears at the end of the movie, my friend did. It was the part nearing the end where Mew (Witwisit Hiranwongkul ) puts the nose on the gnome that Tong (Mauro Maurer) gave him and then he starts to cry.
Boys are potentially being tempted quite for awhile. What lies in the future for Tong (Mauro Maurer) & Mew ( "Pitch" Witwisit Hiranwongkul ) is for us to imagine if they end up together or have separate lives..When I am watching a movie, I always look for a various types of symbols because it is where I want to see what symbolic efforts the movie is being recommended to watch.. Some efforts like the bee climbing up on the straw represents a struggle out of death, a gnome (whose nose is lost) conveys a missing factor in our lives, a belief in God.
Love of Siam shows the relationship of two teenagers who start to know the meaning of love and friendship that will be remain in the memory forever.
For sure, my friends in Riyadh will surely love this movie as I did.
Here is the synopsis of the movie taken from Wilkipedia:
Mew, a stubborn kid, is neighbor to Tong, an energetic boy who lives with his parents and sister. The two became good friends.
Months have passed and Tong's family decides to move. On the day of the move, Tong finds Mew sitting on a ledge overlooking a pier. Tong says his final words “Don’t allow others to make fun with you” and departs in a car. Tong looks back only to find Mew walking towards the car before coming to a stop and crying for losing his best friend.
Six years pass. The boys are reunited during their senior year of high school at Siam Square.
The musically talented Mew is the leader of a boy band called August. Tong has a pretty girlfriend, Donut. The meeting stirs up old feelings that Mew has harbored since boyhood, his love for Tong.
Mew's band, meanwhile, has a new manager, June. She looks just like Tong's long-lost sister, Tang. After meeting June, Tong and his mother, Sunee, devise to a plan to pay June to pretend she is Tang, in hopes that it will pull Tong's father out of his alcoholic dpression.
Mew is also the object of an unrequited crush of a neighbor girl, Ying. But Mew has strong feelings for Tong, which have inspired him to write new songs.
The boys share a prolonged kiss in Tong's backyard one night after a party in honor of the return of Tang. Prior to that Tong also spends the night with Mew, which causes his mother to worry.
At Christmas time, as Tong and his mother are decorating a Christmas tree, they have a heart-to-heart talk about making choices, and Tong asks his mother to let him make his own choices.
Tong then goes to Siam Square for a date with Donut. Mew's band is playing nearby, so Tong abandons Donut and tells her he cannot be with her. He then rushes to see Mew play and is guided there by Ying, who has accepted the fact that Mew loves Tong. After the performance, Tong gives Mew a gift, a missing nose from a wooden doll that Tong gave him when they were children. However, Tong tells Mew he can't be his boyfriend but that doesn't mean he doesn't love Mew.
The movie ended with Mew putting the missing nose back to the wooden puppet, saying "thank you" and cried quietly.
Here is the lyrics of the “song” inspiredly written by Mew to Tong in the movie:
If I said that this song is made for you, would you believe it?
It's probably not melodious, not affectionate, not beautiful like other songs.
I want you to know that if there's no love, you can't write a love song.
But for you, my dear, do you know? I wrote it easily.
You've probably heard hundreds and thousands of love songs
that's probably impressive but with a similar meaning altogether, but if you listen to this song,
song that's written simply for you.
For you to understand the meaning of it, our hearts will then have a connection.
Let it be a song on our pathways that consist only voices of you and me.
Together as long as possible.
As the meaning is told in a poetry that as long as there's love naturally there's hope.
Means whenever your love shines through the heart, I have a goal.
There is a lot of facts found in love, and in the past I used the time for the sake of finding the meaning.
But soon, I'd just know it, whenever you are near me,
That if life's a rhythm, you are as good as the words that is melodious and touching to the heart. Let it be a song on our pathways that consist only voices of you and me.
Together as long as possible.
As the meaning is told in poetry that as long as there's love naturally there's hope.
Means whenever your love shines through the heart, I have a goal.
There's a pathway for us to walk side by side and there are voices of you and me.
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