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21 Dec 2024 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elisheva_mThis evening i finished watching something perhaps best described as a fairytale told as a lakorn (Thai melodrama). It was set in a fictional state in India named after a four star Pattaya (coastal city east of Bangkok known for its night life) resort. Everyone, including rural village children, spoke fluent Thai regularly, but everything written was in English, including the embroidered codes in Ye Olde Booke of Saree Codes, and 3/4ths of the gene pool was Chinese. Except for the king's first son, who wasn't the crown prince on account of his mum being American. Though the king has changed the rules now so it will all be cool when the crown prince marries one of the Thai sisters who have to save the kingdom (see - totally fairytale) except there are bad guys led by the evil polluting capitalist and the evil capitalist's psychopathic daughter who's been preparing to become queen for so long she's lost touch with reality and gone a bit mad. She's young though and her sneer needs a lot of work before she can truly be a lakorn villainess.
There's a really cool queen mother ghost and magic spiders and a map hidden in a saree and lots of Big Adventures except they ride motorbikes instead of horses. Oh, and some strange conceptions about hypothermia, which isn't exactly something most Thais have much experience with, except that was really just the writers coming up with a reason for the male lead to take off his shirt and apologise most sincerely but still snuggle the female lead because she was working so hard on reconstructing the design on the deep freeze sari she didn't bleed when she jammed a needle in her finger. I know she was sleep-deprived and a bit delirious but that last bit wasn't great acting.
Anyway, all of this makes COMPLETE and TOTAL sense in the world of the fairytale lakorn. And it all works because underneath this rollicking ignore every plot hole you can't explain away by inventing an old royal protocol which Must Be Observed ride, the whys and emotions, especially the male lead's, really did make sense.
There's a really cool queen mother ghost and magic spiders and a map hidden in a saree and lots of Big Adventures except they ride motorbikes instead of horses. Oh, and some strange conceptions about hypothermia, which isn't exactly something most Thais have much experience with, except that was really just the writers coming up with a reason for the male lead to take off his shirt and apologise most sincerely but still snuggle the female lead because she was working so hard on reconstructing the design on the deep freeze sari she didn't bleed when she jammed a needle in her finger. I know she was sleep-deprived and a bit delirious but that last bit wasn't great acting.
Anyway, all of this makes COMPLETE and TOTAL sense in the world of the fairytale lakorn. And it all works because underneath this rollicking ignore every plot hole you can't explain away by inventing an old royal protocol which Must Be Observed ride, the whys and emotions, especially the male lead's, really did make sense.
