"Siamese Love": Parting is more of a deep love and blessing
Huang Zihong
Siamese Love (Thai: The Love of Siam, also translated as "Love in Siam"), is a 2007 Thai romance film that depicts a multifaceted life of family and friendship, in which the pure love story between Mew and Tong is the most concerned. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2009, the film swept across Asia and around the world.
To be fair, "Siamese Love" is a youthful campus urban style film, but under the director's multi-dimensional narrative lens and the natural performance of the actors, it has a different feeling and charm.
The essence of the soul that runs through the beginning and end of the film is such a truth: parting is not heartless, but it is deep love and blessing - there is a kind of "falling flowers are not heartless, turning into spring mud is more protective of flowers" mood and feelings.
In the film, there are two people who parted in two paragraphs, and after watching the whole film, everyone will suddenly realize that in fact, it is all deep love and blessing.
The first paragraph, as a "stand-in", sends warmth and relief to Tong's parents, June, who finally leaves their home.
Once, when Tong's whole family went on a trip to Chiang Mai, Tong's sister Tang went camping in the forest with friends, but disappeared in the forest. Tong's parents blamed themselves, and his father was drunk all the time, and Tong's mother worked hard to support the whole family, and soon after, in order to forget the unpleasant past, Tong moved elsewhere.
Mew has since lost contact with his childhood friend Tong. A few years later, Mew formed an orchestra called August at his school, and the band's self-recorded album sold out in the siam area. Tong moved back to Bangkok and made a beautiful girlfriend named Donut near Siam. Tong overhears August's song and loves it, but the album is sold out, but happens to meet Mew who is leaving in front of the CD store.
At this point, Mew met June, the orchestra manager hired by his manager, a man who looked like Tang. After Mew's introduction, Tong met June. The increasingly depressing family atmosphere gave Tong a bold idea. After discussing and meeting June with her mother, June begins to enter Tong's family as Tang, giving Tong's father, who has always been decadent, some good changes, but still unable to quit drinking.
Although from the beginning, June received the rewards given by Tong's mother, but with the passage of time, after many contacts with members of their family, June felt that she was also part of their family, and made her reflect on her own life and miss her parents.
At this time, Christmas is coming, and Tong is in a dilemma between his mother's family and Mew, and the two are lost in the streets of Siam, where they should go.
The conflict in The Tong family finally reached a flashpoint, in which June also understood to face her deceased parents, and she told Tong's mother in the small notes hidden in various corners that she should cherish and believe that without her, the three of them would be fine. So, after telling Tong the truth, with encouragement and blessings to everyone, he took the bus back to Chiang Mai on Christmas Eve.
The second paragraph is Tong's tearful farewell to his beloved Mew after the struggle and choice between love, affection and basic love.
Mew and Tong were neighbors and good friends at the same school when they were young.
When they met again many years later, the feelings of the two remained unchanged, and they still shared the same bed and shared their hearts.
Tong and his girlfriend broke up because of some small contradictions and disagreements.
Because of meeting Tong, Mew finally wrote the song, the sentimental song written for Tong, and sang it for the first time at the Tong family's party to celebrate Tang (June's return home), winning unanimous praise from the guests, and Tong finally began to face his emotions, kissing Mew after the party, but was seen by Tong's mother who came to clean up the dishes.
Discovering Tong and Mew's feelings, she began to fear that Tong would take a road of no return, afraid that her only son would leave him, and after multiple pressures, she finally collapsed and went to Mew to let him suspend his abnormal relationship with Tong.
Tong's mother finally said to Tong: Solve your own problems.
Tong went to see Mew perform, then took the puppet's nose and gave it to Mew as a Christmas gift, saying: I may not be able to be with you, but that doesn't mean I don't love you.
At the end of the film, Mew sticks the nose of the puppet that Tong gave him into the worn-out puppet, but the puppet nose is a little bigger than the original one, but Mew is still very impressed.
The film ends with Mew's tears.
This is the long-fraternal argument of "Siamese Love", telling the audience with a tearful smile: parting is more of love and blessing.