Hi pals, i am back, this time with a review on thai romantic comedy "My Name is Love" released in 2012 starring Arak as Q and Pong pitch as his friend Joe. Have you ever had a friend in school whom you teased badly, who now turned out to be a beautiful girl and more worse you fell for her now. "My Name is love" is one such kind of story with unusually positive embarrassing and funny elements involved blissfully enough to make it no more 'yet another love story'.
The movie opens with Q narrating his high school days, enjoying
fame among young as a music band lead, filled with pride and stupidity.He with
Joe embarrasses a rather geeky 'Big' when he pleads him to take him
into the band and teases badly a fat girl 'Geur' when she proposes him
causing Geur to declare that she will never love him again even if he proposes
her naked. Next, the narration forwards to present day where it appears that Q
became a big rock star but apparently he is a salesman for a product
"Big sucker". Remember the name 'Big' from somewhere?
do you guess something!!! Yep! the company and the product belongs to 'Big'
whom Q embarrassed badly due to which 'Big' left school, started his
own business, invented 'Big Sucker' , employed Q, Joe and now back for
revenge. Q as said now falls for his neighborhood girl 'Geur' , the
same girl whom he teased but now a super gorgeous girl, the sweetheart of
a reputed university. Q foils every relationship Geur tries to be in using his
funny ideas which actually works.Till here the story
is just entertaining enough not to stop watching.
Here the director Wasin PokPong introduces a cute concept, well
wounded with love and drama which makes this movie quiet interesting.It is
Cupids! people who are responsible for making others fell in love with each
other Do you know that Mark of facebook is also a cupid ?!. One fine night when
Q is busy drooling over the facebook pics of Geur a popup comes on his
screen about a website named "My name is love". Unable to close it Q
registers which makes him a cupid now. Messed enough to mend his love story,
now he has to make other people fall in love, In this course of becoming a
cupid he meets Tom an elder cupid and Ood the top ranked cupid, who helps
him become a better cupid.Do you find the story boring! you want a twist, you
will have more than one from now and i am not going to reveal and spoil
them.Being cupid is a responsibility and
with responsibility comes sacrifice which Q has to decide on .The
remaining movie is about Q having to chose between his love and
responsibility which he starts kinda liking, become
a successful cupid and even more, become a better man and also
face the wrath of ‘Big’.
The funny situations, hilarious arguments and demeaning
conversations between Q,Geur and Joe makes this movie a quite amusing rom-com.
Arak and Pong played their characters absurdly as they should be, transforming
a rather grownup movie to an enjoyable teenage romance.Their appearances
and characters are weird enough to attract your attention from the story line
but compelling enough to be more than good. Thunasupang has portrayed her less
dialogue character 'Geur' interestingly with her good looks. The director
handled the script so well that the viewer can lean back and watch lazily
enough to enjoy it although appeared in slow pace sometimes with it’s 1.5 hours
length. Although in some scenes, the movie lagged sense they are replaced
with adverse satires of life. As a whole "My name is Love" is a
strange stylish love story which you can watch on a chilling night after an
exhaustive day, pulling your blanket over you, laughing till your cheeks hurt.
The movie can be watched on youtube, with very good subtitles which can make
you feel like you're watching a direct English movie.
Disclaimer: The movie contains content which some may find embarrassing and abusive, but the content is so little and is not so bad.
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