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Friday, August 7th, 2015

Right By Me

Tat and Nat are best friends. They go to the same high school together in Bangkok where they live, and also to the new LGBT Rainbow Club as they are both gay and want to find out how to ‘come out’ to their parents. Then Ek another class mate turns up at the Club’s meeting which confuses the boys as he has a girlfriend. It also quite delights Tat as he has always carried a torch for him. Just to complicate things Nat also carries an unrequited torch for Tat.

Fast forward through bullying at school, mothers finding porn magazines, fathers getting drunk calling his son a faggot, and Ek dumping his girl, and then suddenly all three boys have been forced out of the closet. Two of them will live happily- ever after together …… oh wait for it, just as the final credits roll, a boyfriend suddenly appears for Nat too.

 
This is a something of rare item as it is the first gay ‘coming out movie’ made in Thailand. Made in 2005 it is ridiculously dated, which is not such an issue as the fact that it contains such painful hammy acting that it takes a great deal of sheer determination (or stupidity?) to sit through it to the very end. It was only the fact that the Distributor has chosen to release it now in the US and Amazon selected as part of their Prime Selection that my curiosity was aroused. I so wish it hadn’t. This is 100 minutes of my life that I will never get back, but I saw this so you wouldn’t have too.

Posted by queerguru  at  20:19


Genres:  coming out, international

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