Now before anyone critiques me posting a movie review I must beg you to remain patient for this does tie in with cornerstones of the incel philosophy.
I come from a migrant background so having seen its trailer I was intrigued, that and the only other movies were about ''muh pure illegal lesbian love'' or some other tripe.
This seemed like a genuinely romantic story set in modern times with geopolitical commentary intertwined.
It was not what I was expecting.
If anything this movie is the antithesis to Old Boy. That movie was fast paced and the lovey dovey chemistry won in the end.
This movie however is realistic. There's almost no background music and the scenes are rarely moving, but instead still.
You get a feeling of hopelessness as our protagonist has very little control over what she does. Her name is Lingching.
There is a male counterpart to this, Guo, is obsessed with her and his realistic down to earth plan of settling down, saving money up and finally getting a retailstore in Myanmar, their homeland.
She wants papers so she can eventually trek to Taiwan (they're in Bangkok atm). She will do anything to achieve that and doesn't really care about Guo's very apparent plan to marry her. Her first interaction with Guo is by insisting her friend will help her look for a job even when he proposes his nephew can fix her a nice spot. This attitude is maintained through the movie.
Eventually she gets employed at a dishwasher, which gets shut down by the cops, Guo bails her out and she works at his nephews company. Her friends partner gets injured and is deported. Her and Guo get scammed trying to get illegal papers.
Time passes on and eventually she learns Guo has been hiding information about her attaining papers for two weeks. She gets pissed and all the romance that's been building between them gets undone as trust is broken.
He knows she wants papers to become a sex worker and calls her out for it after which she slaps him despite her wanting to be an escort since the arrival in Thailand.
She loses her virginity in prostitution.
*ENDING SPOILERS*
She gets a new identity and works permanently as a prostitute presumably in a brothel.
He trains to vent frustration and burns wood.
Then closing near the end he's outside this house with a cigarette on his scooter so I was thinking (with my naive Hollywood conditioned mind) that he's got a new gf.
He scales the wall and climbs inside and I'm still oblivious, I still thought the two protagonists were going to make up and get together again.
Then he stabs her dead and kills himself with blood streaked over a picture of Bhudda.
That ending took me by surprise because throughout the movie they're talking about their future plans that are so secure to them but keep getting fucked over.
This ending basically tells you that they have no future and their ambitions are empty even if he didn't kill her.
Conclusion:
I could really relate to Guo, he looks and behaves similar to me. I was rooting for him only to be wrecked by the ending.
Even though he had the best in mind for her she still crashed herself into dumb trouble that left her more miserable and in the end... dead.
She also has zero control over anything in her life up to the prostitution after which she winds up dead.
Normies will interpret it as him being an angry incel who is controlling.
You will probably say he was just coping and you'd be true.
In the end he commit the final cope.
Real sad movie, I recommend you guys watch it, it may give you new perspectives or solidify your previous beliefs. Real suicidefuel.
It's also realistic since my mom had a similar suitor with realistic plans and was considering marriage for a while but then left for immigration and married someone abusive instead while Lingching got into prostitution which is also abusive in a way as its portrayed by a very big carnivorous lizard.
I come from a migrant background so having seen its trailer I was intrigued, that and the only other movies were about ''muh pure illegal lesbian love'' or some other tripe.
This seemed like a genuinely romantic story set in modern times with geopolitical commentary intertwined.
It was not what I was expecting.
If anything this movie is the antithesis to Old Boy. That movie was fast paced and the lovey dovey chemistry won in the end.
This movie however is realistic. There's almost no background music and the scenes are rarely moving, but instead still.
You get a feeling of hopelessness as our protagonist has very little control over what she does. Her name is Lingching.
There is a male counterpart to this, Guo, is obsessed with her and his realistic down to earth plan of settling down, saving money up and finally getting a retailstore in Myanmar, their homeland.
She wants papers so she can eventually trek to Taiwan (they're in Bangkok atm). She will do anything to achieve that and doesn't really care about Guo's very apparent plan to marry her. Her first interaction with Guo is by insisting her friend will help her look for a job even when he proposes his nephew can fix her a nice spot. This attitude is maintained through the movie.
Eventually she gets employed at a dishwasher, which gets shut down by the cops, Guo bails her out and she works at his nephews company. Her friends partner gets injured and is deported. Her and Guo get scammed trying to get illegal papers.
Time passes on and eventually she learns Guo has been hiding information about her attaining papers for two weeks. She gets pissed and all the romance that's been building between them gets undone as trust is broken.
He knows she wants papers to become a sex worker and calls her out for it after which she slaps him despite her wanting to be an escort since the arrival in Thailand.
She loses her virginity in prostitution.
*ENDING SPOILERS*
She gets a new identity and works permanently as a prostitute presumably in a brothel.
He trains to vent frustration and burns wood.
Then closing near the end he's outside this house with a cigarette on his scooter so I was thinking (with my naive Hollywood conditioned mind) that he's got a new gf.
He scales the wall and climbs inside and I'm still oblivious, I still thought the two protagonists were going to make up and get together again.
Then he stabs her dead and kills himself with blood streaked over a picture of Bhudda.
That ending took me by surprise because throughout the movie they're talking about their future plans that are so secure to them but keep getting fucked over.
This ending basically tells you that they have no future and their ambitions are empty even if he didn't kill her.
Conclusion:
I could really relate to Guo, he looks and behaves similar to me. I was rooting for him only to be wrecked by the ending.
Even though he had the best in mind for her she still crashed herself into dumb trouble that left her more miserable and in the end... dead.
She also has zero control over anything in her life up to the prostitution after which she winds up dead.
Normies will interpret it as him being an angry incel who is controlling.
You will probably say he was just coping and you'd be true.
In the end he commit the final cope.
Real sad movie, I recommend you guys watch it, it may give you new perspectives or solidify your previous beliefs. Real suicidefuel.
It's also realistic since my mom had a similar suitor with realistic plans and was considering marriage for a while but then left for immigration and married someone abusive instead while Lingching got into prostitution which is also abusive in a way as its portrayed by a very big carnivorous lizard.
