A Little Thing Called Love (Sing lek lek tee reak wa rak) (2010)

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• Steven V

  
  This is a film that anyone can enjoy, provided they leave their own cultural bias' by the door. The story in itself is pretty unremarkable, it's a teen love story. What this particular film does, in its own sublime way, is reveal so much about the character and culture of… More
  This is a film that anyone can enjoy, provided they leave their own cultural bias' by the door. The story in itself is pretty unremarkable, it's a teen love story. What this particular film does, in its own sublime way, is reveal so much about the character and culture of the world's most lovable people. Thais are at once childlike and somber. The inhabit a world that is at once filled with mystical notions and aspirations, and also rife with the most petty and spiteful stereotypes and internal racism. Nam, the protagonist for this film, is characterized as "plain" and "awkward" in the film's beginning. What she's really subordinated by is her Thai features and dark complexion. The filmmaker is courageous in revealing this less-than-laudable aspect of Thai culture, with Nam's teacher calling her "dark skinned" in the film's opening moments. In spite of this honesty, the movie also manages to very lovingly portray the universal extremes of a girl's blooming feelings for her first boy crush, but again very Thai in it's portrayal. The beauty of first love, friendship and dreams, it was a refreshing movie.