Crazy Little Thing called LOVE

 

“Every one of us has someone who is hidden in the bottom of our heart. And when we think of that person, we feel like there’s always a little pain inside. But we still want to keep that person. Even though I don’t know where he is today, what he is doing, I know that he is the one who taught me this. A crazy little thing called LOVE.”

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Crazy Little Thing Called Love, First Love, A Little Thing Called Love are the english translataions of this Thai movie. I’ve never watched any Thai movie before, this is my first and I was surprised that aside from the observation that Filipinos and Thais has similar physical features (I was often mistaken as Thai when I went to Korea), the culture is quite similar as well. Like their concept of being beautiful, you have to be fair to be considered as one, something that I really don’t agree with, not because I’m brown skinned, I just don’t judge beauty based on skin color, beauty queens are not all fair skinned. Aside from the concept of beauty, high school life as portrayed in the movie is almost similar to how it is here in the Philippines. Unlike the western culture, high school life’s major issue is friendship and love life, not so much about drugs and sex ‘though the concern for these things is alsro rising these days. I guess this is part of the reason why I liked the movie but apart from this, it is mainly because “It is everbody’s story”. Once upon a time, whether way back in high school or not we had a crush, got infatuated, tricked by our raging hormones, fell in love and we all wish that such feelings will be reciprocated, we all prayed hard to also be liked or loved by that someone and do everything within our power to make it possible.

Nam was a wall flower who had a crush on Shone, the cutest guy in the campus but unlike most stories the guy isn’t a jackass, he was a typical cute boy next door type. Nam wanted to be noticed so she followed the 9 ways from different countries on how to win one’s love as stated in the book that her friends bought. But aside from that, she also improved herself by becoming more beautiful with the help of her supportive friends. She also studied hard to get the top spot in class, it’s hitting two birds in one stone for her in this case ’cause aside from getting Shone’s attention, she also did it to be with her father who promised his daughters that if they get the top spot in class, they can live with him in the States. To make the story realistic there are antagonists, like the pretty mean girl who always acts that she can’t walk so that the guy he likes will bring her home, how not so pretty girls don’t get to join the hip school clubs, it was also shown how good looking kids are popular and how the not so good looking ones were looked down on and of course, how things changed when the ugly duckling became a swan princess. I must admit that I cannot relate with Nam, my high school wasn’t like hers, that’s another story to tell, but despite of that, the scenes really made me reminisce my high school days and the people whom I shared it with. Nam was so lucky to have very good friends and ‘though at one point she neglected them, they still accepted her when she came back to her senses and all four of them were still together even after high school ended.  Apart from making me reminisce, just like most of us who watched the film, the part I love the most is the romance part. I must admit that I don’t like the idea of changing yourself so that the one you like will like you back but the movie is about teenage love and I guess it’s safe to say that at one point we all did it. After all, we were once young and stupid. In this case, Nam really became a better person so even if her motivation was a bit shallow something really good came out of it, so I guess it’s ok, it’s not like she cut classes just to watch her crush while training basketball. As for the love triangle, it reminded me of a somewhat same scenario in high school, the one who likes me is the friend of the guy whom I like but we were never like Nam and Shone’s best friend, it’s a confusing situation, Nam wants Shone to feel that it’s him that she likes but she can’t ’cause it might ’cause a rift between Shone and his best friend. As for Shone, he was “silent ruled” he cannot confess his love ’cause his best friend got ahead of him in proclaiming that he likes Nam, so he had to live each day wishing it’s him that she is with. But this is not the heartbreaking part, I cried a pool of tears when Nam confessed to Shone, can you just imagine how it hurts to wait for three long years only to find out that you’re a week late? Baifern’s acting was really good, she was able to act out so well how hurt Nam’s feelings were, even when she fell on the pool, some might have laughed at it but I was so convinced at how lost she felt that time. I continued to cry when it was revealed that Shone really liked her, specially when the scrap book was shown, taking her pictures without her knowing was really sweet much more compiling them plus growing a rose for her, the joys of young love but it was too late for them at that point. Not until, we were taken 9 years after…of course you know how movies like this ends

I won’t go with the movie technicals, I’m after the story and despite it’s simplicity it was so true, it is indeed everybody’s story. I just hope we won’t wait ’til it’s too late.