Total run-time: 60 minutes over 5 episodes, or about 12 minutes each. Easy binge.
Much of this show is shot out-of-sequence and it's all brought together in the final episode. Bring tissue because it's so touching. It's a happy ending but very tearful.
ACTING/CAST: Ever since Grey Rainbow have I wanted to see Nut Rattanamongkol again. He is so sweet and charming. The actress is very beautiful also.
MUSIC: That last song was so bittersweet. In fact, another Thai drama with great music.
REWATCH VALUE: It's not long so I'll probably watch it again with a friend.
OVERALL: Some parts the pacing may seem a little slow but really this story just takes its time to be told. I think it's rather poetic and done well.
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The story begins with Ton breaking up with someone over the phone, and we are likely to assume that it's the other main character, Tawan, but this will turn out to be a wrong assumption.Perhaps the story would merely be an unimpressive tearjerker if it had involved a straight couple, but where gay love stories are concerned, it is still fairly refreshing to have a show that doesn't focus on sex-crazed gay culture, innocent schoolboy love or struggles with homophobia in society. It is a simple love story about two men who love each other, with Tawan being the older man who has given a lot to his younger lover.
It turns out that Tawan is dying of late stage cancer and has decided to break up with Ton who is oblivious to Tawan's condition. As Ton's superior or boss at work, Tawan has even planted a female secretary, whom he knows will get along very well with Ton, to work with Ton.
Even though Ton ends up sleeping with the secretary who seems unaware of Tawan's plan, the ethics of employing the woman for this purpose is questionable and not addressed. And why Tawan chooses a female rather than a male person is also, unfortunately, not explained.
We also do not know the reasons behind Tawan's coldness towards Ton from the start. The decision to reveal Tawan's motivations later rather than earlier in the story has its pros and cons. The good thing is that there is a bit of a twist though one may be half-expecting it. The bad thing is that we may not feel so much for the characters until quite late in the story.
In any case, things do not go as Tawan has planned. After Tawan breaks up with him, an upset Ton gets into an accident and loses his sight and needs cornea donation to see again. So, expectedly, it's going to be Tawan who sacrifices by donating his cornea. What I don't get is how Tawan manages to do so before his death. (Is it even allowed?) The logic of the story aside, Ton regains his sight and looks for Tawan, who doesn't seem to have expected Ton to look for him, and the documents that will reveal the truth about Tawan's health, the secretary's employment and Tawan's cornea donation are lying in plain sight for Ton to see. Don't try to be too rational with the story here or it will spoil things for you.
The ending is bittersweet. Almost callously, Ton breaks up with the secretary (not that he is even a couple with her to begin with) and is by Tawan's side for what remains of his life. Despite the cliches in the story, Choose does come across as a sincere effort to tell a story about two men who truly love each other even when they are met with the worst challenges that life throws at them. It's nice to see a Thai production venture into new terrain with a story involving gay men--the typical BL is fairly lucrative, so we can see why companies would create them, but stories that aren't going to be commercially very successful deserve a chance.
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Tawan was exceptional in his acting. I love Nut so much, but Tawan overpowered him in this series. Tawan loved him so much that he gave everything, and I mean everything. He knew about his fate, he kept it.
All in all. The story still broke my heart. For 5 episodes, my heart was broken. As much as it was broken by Grey Rainbow.
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I asked myself many times, why Tawan? How do Tawan love Ton if he isn't showing it? I don't see things coming towards the ending. I cried and the realization of how Mr. Tawan love Ton unconditionally. It is giving yourself, your happiness to the one you really love. Kudos to the team behind this short drama.
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Na verdade, esse é um dos melhores BL’s que já assisti. Uma das histórias mais interessantes que tive o prazer de assistir. Um projeto mais adulto, mais maduro e instigante do que a maioria das histórias BL oferecidas pelo mercado tailândes.A história é curta, e conta a história de um casal que rompe por decisão de um deles, e o outro apesar de amar demais acaba aceitando o fim, enquanto uma jovem surge em sua vida e ele tenta superar a dor. Em apenas cinco episódios, a história consegue contar a história, que aliás, conta com uma atuação e trilha sonora impecáveis, e o plow twist do final, onde finalmente entendemos o que realmente está acontecendo com os três personagens principais.
É uma história de amor verdadeiro, de provas de amor e sacrifícios pelo ser amado.
A fotografia da série é linda e o final realmente emocionante, vale a pena assistir.
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