Raven and Her Random Stories 2.0

I wasn't really interested in Thai movies at first, probably because I found the language was too difficult to understand. I did hear some positive comments toward some of their movies such as ATM, A Little Thing Called Love, Bad Genius, etc. But the first Thai movie that captivated my interest was Brother of The Year when I saw its trailer at CGV (and not going to lie, but the appearance Nichkhun that made me interested, lol) and then watched it a few months after that. Well... probably I'll write the review about it on the next post if I had a time. 

Back to Friend Zone... this movie trailer suddenly showed up on my YouTube homepage earlier this year and this movie looked pretty promising when I saw the trailer. The theme is simple and very romantic-comedy like: a couple of friends who trapped in friend zone. Some people might find this topic too 'eh' and 'boring' but after I watched this movie, apparently it's not that kind of generic. 

So this movie was told about Gink (Pimchanok Leuwisetpaiboon a.k.a Baifern) and Palm (Naphat Siangsomboon a.k,a Nine) who had been friends since high school. When Gink found out her father had an affair (after she ditched school to spy on him with Palm until they flew to... Chiang Mai), Palm comforted her and said he loved her as a friend. That's actually how the "friend zone" happened. Although later, Palm realized that he really loved her but it was too late because 1) Gink also saw him as a best friend and 2) She already dated someeone at that time. Good thing they're still becoming best friends (and trapped in friend zone) for 10 years. To get over his feelings toward her best friend, Palm had been dating several women and it made him being called playboy by Gink while she's in a relationship with Ted, the singer whom she worked with. 

Gink and Ted had a project together that caused him traveled around so much and it made her suspicious with his attitude. When she followed him to Malaysia, she called Palm, who's currently in Myanmar with his date, to come meet her. Palm decided to fly to Malaysia and then Gink told him all about her worries whether her boyfriend was having an affair or not. Eventually she did accompany Ted to some countries and see by herself if her speculation was true or not until Ted flew to Hongkong by himself and at this time, Gink dragged Palm again to spy on him. So was Ted actually cheating on her? What happened with Gink and Palm relationship? Would Palm have a gut to cross the Friendship zone? 

I actually enjoyed this movie even though it's such an ordinary rom-com (romantic comedy movies is one of my guilty pleasure lol). It's not that boring and there are some scenes and dialogues that make this movie become enjoyable. The plot itself is quite interesting since there are some future scenes where Palm told some guys about his 10-year Friend Zone chronicles. Reading some reviews online, it was mentioned how they got annoyed with the product placement. Well... In my opinion, the product placements were quite subtle and not as forced as some Indonesian movies did (ahem). I got that some said it's like watching Thai Airways commercial but hey, traveling around the Asia was part of this movie's plot and for someone who had never been to Thailand, I think this movie could make me want to visit this country so badly and not only explore Bangkok but also Krabi, Chiang Mai, etc. Oh, and the soundtrack (a.k.a the song project that Gink and Ted worked on) was pretty damn catchy and I love how they involved every singer in ASEAN countries (except Singapore) and Hongkong to sing some part of the song in their native languages.