Khun Chai (To Sir, With Love)
14 Mar 2024 09:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elisheva_mThis was so much fun. My first full-on proper lakorn and I don't know if I just got lucky in seeing a rec for an especially good one or if lakorns are my kind of drama after all :) Two hours after finishing it and I'm still buzzing and want to tell everyone to watch it. To set aside their prejudices and settle into its way of telling its story. It has a different flavour in delivering its tension than dramas from other countries and it's very much to my liking.
Either way, I am really loving Thai telly and how they tell their stories.
Maybe tomorrow I'll find reviews somewhere other than MDL where it's all seen through the lens of the romance between men. That part was great, but it was so much more. The found family within the Family, the bond between the brothers, the plucky adorable het romance, so many complicated, interesting, determined older women - all the women and their different ways of manifesting strength and negotiating the cultural sexism of their circumstances. This was their story. For all that our own cultural sexism means it was framed in terms of men and gay romance, this is a story about women.
On one31 with English subs.
Either way, I am really loving Thai telly and how they tell their stories.
Maybe tomorrow I'll find reviews somewhere other than MDL where it's all seen through the lens of the romance between men. That part was great, but it was so much more. The found family within the Family, the bond between the brothers, the plucky adorable het romance, so many complicated, interesting, determined older women - all the women and their different ways of manifesting strength and negotiating the cultural sexism of their circumstances. This was their story. For all that our own cultural sexism means it was framed in terms of men and gay romance, this is a story about women.
On one31 with English subs.
