Bangkok Love Story (2007)

That's it. Just one long melodramatic karaoke video. Chaiwat is very handsome but looks alone cannot save his acting or this film. There are far too many interminably long sequences without dialogue featuring the lead actors standing around on different planes of existence looking lonely, supported only by a truly awful sappy orchestra of what I assume to be two circa 1983 Casio keyboards. The super long sequences are frequently followed by really short scenes that make the entire film feel like its hobbled. Lurching forward one moment and then stopping to find its balance.The score is unbearable. Seriously all I could think of was the bad stock videos they make for karaoke machines.I gave it a 2 because of Chaiwat's handsome face but that's all I can muster.DO NOT RECOMMEND.

I loved this movie! it makes one think about the characters and their situation. I was very moved by the rawness of the movie. I tried to place myself in their shoes but found i would have no clue as to what i would do. the story line is full of emotion and settings used are fe-nom! one is immersed into the city of Bangkok. slight spoiler! the ending is quite literally a mind-(insert here a very harsh word)... It made cry so hard!I am def. going to buy this movie so i can watch it with my bffs.love always, me! =]

After my first viewing of 'Bangkok Love Story', I was so disappointed by the melodramatic overload at the end of the film, that my first reaction was to write a very hateful comment about it, and I even wanted to smash my DVD against the wall, literally! However, something prevented me from doing so, and I think I figured out what it is. I was actually extremely moved by the story, and I think that I somehow just couldn't stomach its sad outcome, but after re-thinking about it, I finally realized that what I loved in it actually exceeded by far all the rest. Apart from the beautiful cinematography and the first rate acting, that the other reviewers here have already examined, I think that it is above all the authenticity of the love between the two characters and its unquestionable nature that I found absolutely beautifully rendered. This is a love story between two handsome and masculine men from a completely different social background,who, by a series of very unusual circumstances, succumb to a mutual passion, even if the time and place for this passion are inappropriate. What I loved in the director's approach is that, contrarily to a typical Western approach, like for instance in 'Brokeback Mountain', where the characters are devastated by the realization of the fact that they love a person of the same sex,and struggle with a typically Western guilt, an approach that I find nauseating,at NO MOMENT in 'Bangkok Love Story' do the characters waste time by asking themselves the question 'Am I gay?' or try to deny their feelings. What makes this love story tragic is above all their FATE, which is above all determined by the circumstances of their first meeting,and this fate is also determined to a certain extent by their social background. The tragedy here comes from DESTINY, and NOT from the sexuality of the characters, If 'Bangkok Love Story' had been a straight love story it would also had made perfect sense.(I do not want to spoil this review, but those who have seen the film can easily figure it out by examining the plot, nothing would have been out of place if the story had involved a man and a woman). Another reviewer talked about, I think, something like 'clan-destined' lovers, and I think, he's actually got the point and the heart of the story very well. So I finally decided to forgive the over-melodramatic turn the director gave to the story, and to focus on the beauty that lies within instead, and my rating of the film jumped from an initial 1 to a final 10. But, after all, isn't love a feeling of extreme subjectivity?

This is an excellently done film. The Acting is first rate. The direction, and editing were beautiful. Poj Amon's was not run of the mill. The delivery of the story had enough twist and turns to keep one interested, even though one had the feeling that the end had been pre-defined, it was not anticipated. The lead actors were out standing. Their portrayal of clan-destined lovers was well thought out and well acted. Even without an English translation, one developed an understanding of the story, it's characters, the inter-relationship between the main characters and the secondary characters.This is a must have movie for any serious collector or movie buff should have in their collection. Straight or Gay, it doesn't matter, because the story/movie is EXCELLENT