CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Leonardo Carlesso This movie is unbelievable. It is just amazing how the story goes, you go deep with it. It is a simple movie, but a real movie with a great story who makes you feel happy, sad, hopefully and show the human essentials. It is perfect! It is a long movie, but it could go longer, the story is so intense that when reaches its ends you turn into a desire for more.

consult2 One of the posters here stated that this was a great break through in Thai movies for showing a male-male kissing scene. This may be true, but I found it lacked artistic integrity--it relied on a number of deliberate deceits reminiscent of a black French melodrama.The producers led us through many scenes of both Mew and Tong pining away for love of each other--from Tong chasing Mew after Mew started avoiding Tong after a conversation with Tong's mother, to Tong finding another boy to have a relationship with, to Tong trying to find get a missing part of a gift he had given to Mew. ..and others like this. All deceits leading us to the conclusion of acceptance of love...and then dumped it all down the drain.And after all this building up to Tong's accepting his sexual identity and a loving relationship, at the end he inexplicably tells Mew he cannot be his boyfriend--WHY NOT? Frankly I felt manipulated by the producers.As for the other storyline of the missing sister, another leading down an inconclusive path.We have been to Thailand many times, have "almost family" there, and a great love of the country and it's fantastic people, but this falls short of my expectations of Thais cinema. More definition and coherence would have made this movie better and less tedious.

skymount37 To me at least, The Love of Siam is simply NOT a gay film. The gay theme between the young Mew & Tong is just part of their growing up & pains in exploring their sexual identities through friendship; it's a focal point from which other many aspects of love branch out and develop; the love of Tong's mother for each of her family member, the love, loss & grief of Tang's Dad after Tang's missing, June's love for her own family members( at the expense of her work & job) & Tong's family, The friendship among the August Band members, Mew's love for his Gramdma, Mew's Grandma love for her husband, Ying's love for Mew & Tong..... it's a movie about accepting the fact that love can hurt & it's worthwhile to make mistakes out of love rather than choosing not loving/ not doing anything out of love for fear of getting hurt .... as for the outcome between Mew & Tong, it's quite immaterial to me after sometime... Love is the greatest Christmas gift of all....

DICK STEEL Much have been raved about Matthew Chukiat Sakveerakul's The Love of Siam, and thankfully I had managed to catch this on screen after it's been playing for some time over here on only one screen. Sakveerakul is perhaps more famous here for his thriller 13 Beloved (renamed 13: Game of Death here), but through this film had demonstrated he's equally adept at telling a romance and family drama.The prologue for the film is somewhat extended, setting the stage for the lead characters. We have Mew (Witwisit Hiranyawongjul) who spends his childhood with his grandmother (Pimpan Buranapim), whose neighbours are a tight knit Catholic family headed by dad Korn (Songsit Roongniphakunsri), domineering mother Sunee (Sinraj Plengpanit), and children Tong (Mario Maurer) and Tang (Laila Boonyasak). A hiking trip resulted in the disappearance of Tang, and the grieving family moves away, temporarily grinding the friendship of the two boys Mew and Tong, to a halt.Fast forward to today, Mew is now the brains and lead singer behind his huge boy band August, and is being courted by neighbour Ying (Kanya Rattapetch). Tong too faces girlfriend woes, where the school flower and spoilt brat Donut (Aticha Pongsilpipat, in a rather needless role here compared to Rattapetch's) faces a nonchalant Tong and draws an ultimatum of sorts. Sparks fly when the two boys reunite by chance on the streets, sparking into motion a series of events that would inevitably lead to a homosexual romance.While it's easy to fall into a gimmicky promotional angle using the love between Tong and Mew, this film offered a lot more, especially that between Tong's family members. The missing Tang had caused Korn to become an insufferable alcoholic, while the mother stoically holds the family together, and the last thing she expects is for Tong to develop a liking for Mew. This segment of the story kicked into melodramatic overdrive when mom Sunee, with the help of the boys, convinces their friend June (also played by Laila Boonyasak), a dead ringer for her child, to pose as Tang and to snap Korn out of his depression.Sakveerakul managed to weave into the narrative the different kinds of love all into one film - the unrequited, first crushes, first love, unconditional ones as given by parents to child, even stand-by-mes encouragement, support as seen by the members of August, and of course, bromance. With the family angle, there's the theme of coming to terms, and learning to let go, which I felt was the richer of the two main threads running through the narrative.It's a beautiful film, not only because having a bevy of pretty looking cast members helped, but also because it had a wonderful looking set of production sets and values, and while I have to rely on the subtitles to understand the song lyrics, the melodies here are simply marvelous. Korea and Japan had to watch out, because Sakveerakul has shown that Thailand is fast catching up in making heartfelt, coming of age romances that would tug at your heartstrings. What's more interesting here is that the film is rated M18, without a cut detected, and even more so, the kissing scenes between Mew and Tong were left intact. Many years ago, there would be a straight out censorship snip at the scene to the cutting room floor, and in more recent times, a scene like this would be shortened and slapped with an R21 rating. An M18 rating for this seemed to point to a relaxation of the rules, though A Frozen Flower had demonstrated that sex between men are still snipped and slapped with an R21 rating.