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4 stories about teenagers searching for love. > Story 1: "The Mind Reader" Boss is the most popular boy at school and a part of the short film club. He is a senior everyone loves and admires, including Sun. Kim is another senior in the club. He seems to take an interest in Sun after helping him and stays by his side when he faces criticism for becoming the lead in the club's short film. Sun also tells Kim that he can read minds. > Story 2: "The Memory on Page 53" Nam is invited by Phu to go on a trip together. Phu and his lover recently broke up, so he wanted to go someplace relaxing to ease his mind. Old memories and feelings resurface as they spend time together in the walks of nature. Is this the start of a new love, or just memoires of the past? > Story 3: "Non-verbal" Tan is eating noodles at a noodle stall when he suddenly sees a cute boy a table away and falls in love at first sight! The two start messaging on Facebook. Tan doesn't hesitate to start flirting with Ohm right away, but the relationship seems to end just as it began when the truth about Ohm comes out. > Story 4: "Still the Best at Last" Nong is a transgender woman who runs a fried banana stall along the street. Nine, a young student, and his friends are her customers. Nine is nice to her and often visits her after school to buy food or help her close up shop. Man, Nine's friend, becomes jealous and threatens their relationship. Could this relationship really work out? (Source: MyDramaList) Edit Translation

  • English
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • dansk
  • Norsk
  • Country: Thailand
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Jun 2, 2016
  • Duration: 2 hr. 6 min.
  • Score: 6.8 (scored by 60 users)
  • Ranked: #63971
  • Popularity: #11710
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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Overall 7.5
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 3.5
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Blast from the past

After the first, rather impressive Timeline movie where the plot actually justified the title, the three directors made a second one. This time it is just a simple omnibus movie featuring four stories. I watched it on youtube in appalling quality but since it had never been officially released, it is better than nothing!

The first story: Mind Reader is a typical early thai bl which takes place in high school and where pretty boys are followed around by fujoshis, girls and trans fans screaming. Amidst that noise, is Sun attracted by Boss's popularity and almost unaware that there is Kit, a boy with a crush on him. It is very cringy but the romance is cute and sweet behind the superfluous cringe. I almost dropped the movie because of it.
It stars Kritsana Boonroth as Sun and Phattaparong Chaibal as Kit.

I liked the second story the best: The Memory on Page 53. Nan is giddy with delight to go on a trip with Phu who had just broken up with his boyfriend. But this trip reveals the memories they are both trying to avoid remembering. They actually dated and broke up 5 years earlier.
This was a beautifully filmed story. The director Artistaya Bangpao filmed nature, their feeling and memories with sensitivity. The actors have great chemistry. The editing is amazing: the past and the present trips mixed together showing that nothing had changed in their feeling. The only issue I have is with the story itself: we never find out why they broke up since they were and obviously still are in love! I would love to see a longer version of this story by the same director with the story expanded and more details given.

The third story, Non-Verbal features a deaf character Ohm who meets the eyes of Tan (Chinoros Duangrat) and their gazes lock. But a misunderstanding almost ruins the beginning of a love story.
This is the shortest story in the movie. Fortunately they did not drag out too long the misunderstanding. The novelty is a deaf character who is on his guard because of his handicap and is quick to jump to wrong conclusion. Tan clears the issue quickly with the help of his doting, no nonsense mother.
Directed by Jitthinund Yodwongsakull

The fourth story circles back to school from the first one. Nine, a boy from that school, gets attached to Nong, a middle aged trans woman who holds a stand selling fried bananas Nine likes. Nong is affected by Nine's attention since he reminds her of her sister's son. Man, a boy from school who has a crush on Nine, finds this relationship suspicious and does everything in his power to ruin it. We eventually find out that Nine is the long lost nephew but the damage has been done and Nong moves away.
This was a good and a bad story at the same time. The good was having a trans main character (when in 2016 trans were just used as screaming over the top comic relief in bls). The very bad is the possible romance innuendo which was never really cleared and the conclusion we get to draw from her reactions in the last part is that there was more in her feelings that met the eye!
Cast: Jennifer Panot Ruangratanachinda as Nong and Natthaphong Charoenchaisombat as Nine. Directed by Passapong Throngprasit

The film was written by Passapong Throngprasit and Artistaya Bangpao. The stories are of different quality and each director's style is obvious. I definitely want to see more of Artistaya Bangpao: his direction is the most accomplished. The music is unremarkable pop songs which have the merit of talking about each story.

Unlike the first movie where the stories ended up being connected on a few levels here only the first and the last stories are loosely connected with the same highschool. As for the timeline, from the title, there is the influence of the past in present in the three stories (not the 1st one which is firmly anchored in the present)!

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  • Movie: Timeline 2
  • Country: Thailand
  • Release Date: Jun 2, 2016
  • Duration: 2 hr. 6 min.
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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  • Score: 6.8 (scored by 60 users)
  • Ranked: #63971
  • Popularity: #11710
  • Watchers: 504

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