strawgal

I always think the directer has huge part in this, what are they asking the actor to do to work well to do the role. If they take them too far out of their range it becomes false, and becomes forced. I have never seen this actor before and most of the time he looked relaxed and not over acting. I think the production team where looking for a natural look, and certainly the FL was never going to be able to wrestle a pig, stun it and butcher it. Its a fantasy.
I live in the UK where actors have a chance to do small roles on tv and stage while learning their craft, on stage you get perhaps eight shows a week to change a performance, and work out how the line lands, and the opportunity to see how older actors work.
I actually feel sorry for these Chinese actors because the process of making a drama is so quick compared to international industry standard, where there is more time and takes. Look at something like the Gilded Age, 8 eps and its a year or more to produce.
Then you have the Clint Eastward style of direction who hires very experienced actors and does as little direction as possible, and perhaps only has two takes.

I think she has two things that are very are in actresses, good looks and the ability to give a truth to any performance, never showy but sincere, All drama is based on suspension of disbelief , add make up and a filter, lets face it non them act with out it, she will do a better job than most twenty somethings.

Two good actors, Peat doing an amazing job, being let down by a script that makes no logical sense. what so ever.
I wondered how they would get out of the hole the script had backed them in to, and like the classic Bobby Ewing shower scene, you have a certain age to appreciate this, you just pretend a whole lot of sh!t never happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdOpQE5miP4

I have, seen it, but Petruchio I thought was a pretty tough character, never know if he does it for the bet, the money or the challenge.
I thought parts of it were more like the classic film, It Happened One Night, the road trip part rom com part I thought worked the best. It could been leading to a bit of Withnail and I
https://www.facebook.com/venturecinemauk/videos/now-now-patience-withnail-only-6-days-to-go-visit-wwwventurecinemacouk-to-get-yo/1192196087520304/
only with two creepy uncles.

I would go for Much Ado About Nothing, there could be some laughs. Or the Taming of the Shrew, I saw that at the RSC a long time ago where a motor bike was driven through the stalls on to the stage.

I think they are just trying to make him look insecure and uncertain, which is funny as even his resting face his somehow ironic and competent.

I love this but at the same time I find it really immature. Some very entitled people spending too much time angsting about things that have little importance, and having personal relationships at the level of self absorbed teenagers.
What is fascinating is when you see the actors being seriously interviewed is they all have a lot higher level of serious commitment and self awareness, so I wonder what they must feel about playing such trivial d!ck heads. Perhaps they should try Shakespeare?

In away Boston is the only adult in this. He works out quickly what is going on and weighs up is it worth the trouble. I think now he gets more kicks from the chase but doesn't want the blow back, just let them screw it up themselves.

Sets and actors looking for a story. What little story there was, which could perhaps have been interesting, reduced to unrelated cliche scenes that added nothing to it.
A nose better than Tide of Love.

I have tried to watch some very expensive formula films recently and theses beats most of them by a mile. Good script, keeps moving, characters that if you live in a an area you will find, dry observational humour. A pretty good twist towards the and end and the bonus no romance or stupid second plot shoe horned in, complete with a bucket of pathos.
I can only think the low rating is there is no romance and most of the seasoned actors are over 50 and behave like normal people.

If this was a book I would have thrown it across the room in disgust, I quite like spoilers because I hate wasting my time.
What I fail to understand is why adult men were being so manipulated by the FL, because being older I know men move on, no matter how much they seem to care in a moment. She didn't appear to have any attractive qualities, just the ability to manipulate them. The ML attitude is perhaps realistic, because men are just like that sometimes, unfortunately.
The way the FL was played it was obvious that she was not telling the truth, and really most of the mess was caused by her, I wouldn't believe a word she said.
I think the girl friend had a lucky escape, because she knew he wasn't committed to her, and if he had stayed with her she would have been in limbo.
If he thinks the choice will lead to a happy ever after I think in real life he would get a rude awakening, teenagers are serious work at times. If it is him or her son she will chose her son.

I did not believe a word the female lead said, not sure if it was how the actress was told to play it.
The detective needs his head testing, there is a reason she is an ex, and the reason the whole mess happened, as an adult.
If he was so infatuated with the idea of her, he wasn't worth keeping, so at least she gets a reason opt out and run away, I would have binned him sooner.

This started out well, I liked the Stand By Me shooting style of youth, and the idea of how your past affects your attitude to life.
The but is, all the men were depicted as if they has no rational thoughts of their own, they seemed to accept everything the FL said and never questioned her motives. A policeman would have been really incompetent not to notice that at the least she was disingenuous. How the hell was he still involved with the case?
It did have some good twists but the last episode was just lame, and such a disappointment. The admission of guilt almost comic.

I had my reservations about the plot, knowing people who have been deceived by their partners and see the harm it causes it's not comedy its a tragedy. I am not sure how you could make that even remotely funny, but somehow Ohm and Poon managed to pull their bit off IMO. I have never seen Ohm look this human.
The time and calculation that Juniors character uses to scam multiple people never mind Pai, I am not sure having an abusive parent cuts it as an excuse.
I have just decided to suspend my disbelief as far as will go, the actors are doing their best with a flawed dubious script.

Ohm I have always found the parts he played that his whole role was to look good and not say much, in this he is allowed to be the befuddled comic straight man and he looks far more relaxed.

My husband enjoyed more than me, I found it a bit flat in the depiction of the story, but the fight sequences are very good.
Its a bit like a Jason Statham movie, you know exactly what you are getting.

You are going to need something to give you strength for TOL season 2, somehow it manages to be worse, but with less charm, not that it had much of that. Its like they set out to make something very bad just for clicks.

Once there was an idea, and it was lost in poor writing and direction. I find neither characters appealing in any way, and what ever connexion they have really is just a performance, they could be stripping wallpaper off wall and it would be more interesting and engaging. I would rather have some stupid hot mess, than something this cold and unappealing.
I flick through it, not as bad as Tide of Love, but close. Both seem to be made by people who do not have a clue what they are doing.

The director of this, Kla" Nathawat Piyanonpong has just managed to something that is very rare, make seduction not look like smut, and comes organically out of the script and not something that fills time.
In a lot of drama, it just so badly done, because its treated as just a plot point, a time filler and no gives sign of the emotions that lead to it, so it loses any dramatic weight.
In this it also manages to be subtly funny, and tells you even more about the characters,

Can someone put this out of its misery?