รักแห่งสยาม The Love of Siam (2007) ⭐️ 7.8/10

The Love of Siam รักแห่งสยาม
Love of Siam (2007)
Not Rated | 2h 34min | Drama, Romance | 22 November 2007 (Thailand)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152282/

Director: Chookiat Sakveerakul (as Matthew Chookiat Sakveerakul)
Writers: Chookiat Sakveerakul (screenplay) (as Matthew Chookiat Sakveerakul), Chookiat Sakveerakul (story) (as Matthew Chookiat Sakveerakul)
Stars: Sinjai Plengpanich, Songsit Roongnophakunsri, Pimpan Buranapim

รักแห่งสยาม เป็นภาพยนตร์ไทย กำกับโดย ชูเกียรติ ศักดิ์วีระกุล นำแสดงโดย สินจัย เปล่งพานิช, เฌอมาลย์ บุญยศักดิ์, ทรงสิทธิ์ รุ่งนพคุณศรี, มาริโอ้ เมาเร่อ และ วิชญ์วิสิฐ หิรัญวงษ์กุล มีเนื้อหาเกี่ยวกับความรัก และการค้นหาตัวตน ผ่านมุมมองของเด็กชายสองคน โดยมีสยามสแควร์เป็นสถานที่เชื่อมโยงเรื่องราวทั้งหมด สองเพื่อนซี้ มิวและโต้งโคจรกลับมาเจอกันอีกครั้งหลังห่างหายไปนานหลายปีเมื่อวงดนตรีของมิวโด่งดัง

Ten-year-old Mew and Tong are neighbors. Tong wants to befriend Mew, his outgoing neighbour, but initially Mew acts cold towards him. At school, effeminate Mew is teased by several other students until Tong steps in to defend him. Tong is injured, but Mew is appreciative and they finally become friends. Mew plays on his late grandpa’s piano and is joined by his grandma, who begins to play an old Chinese song. She explains that one day, Mew will understand the meaning of the song. Tong’s family goes on vacation to Chiang Mai and his older sister, Tang, begs her mother to allow her to remain with friends several days longer. Tong buys Mew a present, deciding to give it to Mew piece by piece in a game similar to a treasure hunt. One by one, Mew finds all of the pieces except for the last one which is hidden in a tree that is cut down just as Mew is about to retrieve it. Tong is disappointed at their misfortune, but Mew remains grateful for Tong’s efforts and gift.

Tong’s parents are unable to contact Tang in Chiang Mai, and go there to look for her. Tong, devastated that his sister is missing, cries and Mew tries to comfort him. Tong’s parents are unable to find Tang, and believing she is dead, the family decides to move to Bangkok. Six years later, Tong’s father Korn is a severe alcoholic, due to his guilt for losing his daughter. Tong has a pretty—but uptight—girlfriend, Donut. Tong and Mew are reunited during their senior year of high school at Siam Square. The musically talented Mew is the lead singer of a boy band called August. The meeting stirs up old feelings that Mew has harbored since boyhood. The manager of Mew’s band, Aod, says they must write a song about love in order to sell more records. He assigns them a new assistant manager, June, who coincidentally looks identical to Tong’s missing sister. When Tong eventually meets her, he and his mother, Sunee, devise to a plan to hire June to pretend she is Tang, in hopes that it will pull Korn out of his alcoholic depression. Mew is also the object of an unrequited crush from a neighbour girl, Ying, but he is more interested in his boyhood friend Tong, who has become his inspiration for writing the new love song.

As part of the deception with “Tang”, a backyard party is held in honor of her return, and Mew’s band provides the entertainment. Singing the new love song for the first time in public, Mew’s eyes lock intensely with Tong’s. After the party, the two boys share a prolonged kiss. Unseen, Sunee accidentally witnesses their kiss. The next day, she firmly commands Mew to stay away from her son. Mew is heartbroken and loses his musical inspiration, so he quits the band. Korn’s alcoholism leads to a liver condition which sends him to a hospital. June questions the effectiveness of the “Tang” ruse, noting that Korn has not reduced his alcohol consumption and she leaves. After she leaves, Korn starts eating more and begins taking his liver medication.

At Christmas time, as Tong and his mother are decorating their Christmas tree, he shows her how controlling she is to him sometimes. Tong goes to Siam Square for a date with Donut. Mew has rejoined the band, and they are playing nearby. Tong abandons Donut and rushes to see Mew sing and is guided there by Ying, who has accepted the fact that Mew loves Tong. After the performance, Tong gives Mew his Christmas gift, the missing nose from the wooden doll that Tong gave him when they were children. Tong then tells Mew, “I can’t be your boyfriend, but that doesn’t mean I don’t love you.”