A young Thai man, 18, has left an uplifting story about the positive effect which Love of Siam had on his broken family when they went to see it. Mumbles, as he calls himself, has just finished secondary school, putting him at the same age as most of the teenagers in the film.
His parents split up a couple of years ago, over financial problems. At the time, Mumbles was arguing often with his mother.
Their relationship improved after he entered the last year of school, when, one Mother's Day, they talked about his being gay. 'Mum said she could not accept it - but she would not object, because I had never made her upset over anything else,' he says. Since then, they had talked more, and drawn closer.
Mumbles said that after reading the webboard chatter about Love of Siam, he talked his mother into going to see it - without mentioning that a gay relationship lay at its heart. By happy coincidence, his father called, inviting them for dinner. Mumbles took the opportunity to persuade both his parents to go with him to watch the film.
As the film opened, he felt nervous, as he had told neither of his parents about the gay relationship between Tong and Music.
Mumbles also recalls the scene when Sunee and Tong are decorating the Christmas tree together, and Tong asks his Mum, 'Are you tired, Mum?'
Mumbles says his mother looked directly at him, because Mumbles often asks her the same thing.
Back at home, Mumbles says he went to play computer games, while his parents talked. When his mother took his father out to the gate to say goodbye, he spied them hugging each other.
When his mother returned, she gave Mumbles a hug, too, and thanked him for taking them. 'I know why you wanted us to see it,' she said.
Mumbles said the film had helped draw his family closer together. He liked it not so much because of its gay theme, but for the drama concerning Tong's family. He also appreciated the fact that the film explored the themes of teen drinking and smoking, which few Thai movies have dared to touch.
His parents split up a couple of years ago, over financial problems. At the time, Mumbles was arguing often with his mother.
Their relationship improved after he entered the last year of school, when, one Mother's Day, they talked about his being gay. 'Mum said she could not accept it - but she would not object, because I had never made her upset over anything else,' he says. Since then, they had talked more, and drawn closer.
Mumbles said that after reading the webboard chatter about Love of Siam, he talked his mother into going to see it - without mentioning that a gay relationship lay at its heart. By happy coincidence, his father called, inviting them for dinner. Mumbles took the opportunity to persuade both his parents to go with him to watch the film.
As the film opened, he felt nervous, as he had told neither of his parents about the gay relationship between Tong and Music.
Mumbles says his mother cried in many scenes involving Tong's mother, Sunee, who is struggling to keep together a family with an alcoholic husband, and a son who is gay.
He says his father seemed to be fighting back tears of his own. In the scene where Sunee is shown eating food which her husband has left - after bringing him home hot food to eat, as she does every day - Mumbles' father took his wife's hand.
Mumbles also recalls the scene when Sunee and Tong are decorating the Christmas tree together, and Tong asks his Mum, 'Are you tired, Mum?'
Mumbles says his mother looked directly at him, because Mumbles often asks her the same thing.
Back at home, Mumbles says he went to play computer games, while his parents talked. When his mother took his father out to the gate to say goodbye, he spied them hugging each other.
When his mother returned, she gave Mumbles a hug, too, and thanked him for taking them. 'I know why you wanted us to see it,' she said.
Mumbles said the film had helped draw his family closer together. He liked it not so much because of its gay theme, but for the drama concerning Tong's family. He also appreciated the fact that the film explored the themes of teen drinking and smoking, which few Thai movies have dared to touch.
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