It gave me some Amélie (2001) vibes with a little of Spike Jonze's Her (2013) in the end.
Outstanding: Comedy, Directing, Acting, Soundtrack, Script... I could go on and on...
It's a movie about growing up, relationships, love, family, work, dreams and everything in between.
It gave me laughs and tears.
There's absolute nothing I'd change or I feel like it needs more work.
One of the best movies I've seen this year.
Cheers.
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Plot summary
Kao, a thirty-something-year-old man, is the world's fastest sport-stacking champion who is being challenged by kids around the world trying to break his world record. In the midst of this, Kao's long-time girlfriend, who has taken care of him and everything else in his life, decides to end their relationship. Like Batman without his Alfred, the king in the world of sport stacking becomes a complete loser in real life. While Kao must keep up with up-and-coming stacking challengers, this glorious champ also needs to learn basic daily life skills. Whether it be laundry, mopping, ironing, grocery shopping, fixing the water pump or other trivial daily tasks. These simple chores for general people become uphill struggles for this sport-stacking master. Yet, the most difficult task of all for him is to figuring how to win back his girlfriend's heart.
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A borrow scene from Parasite??
Weak plot and random insertions here and there that distracted the flow of the protagonist's goal ( stack sport champion). One of the cringed insertions was the imitation of the Parasite Oscar movie. I supposed it was intended to be a joke, but the length of the screen time and the degree of similarity became too embarrassingly obvious and felt disrespectful. It might get a pass as a comedy but this scene was cheap.
I think the trailer and the beginning of the movie were also misleading. At the beginning it focused on Gao's stack sport development, then abandoned this theme and focused on the drama around Jay's life. This was ok until it became imbalanced. The rest of the story strayed aside from the main plot+characters (Gao&Jay). The sudden show of Gao-his mother relationship felt irrelevant.
I gave the credit to Jay (played by Yaya) who did an impressive job at acting. It's a shame though that Jay's character wasn't developed to play more intellectual+helpful role to the Stack Sport than to be just a housewife. I'd love to see Jay's involvement with the game's analysis or competitor analysis (considered that she was a smart girl in the movie).
Unfortunately, I couldn't continue till the end of the movie. But by far it was disappointing.
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Challenges of becoming adults
A bit overstretched drama comedy in everyday-life exposure but Nawapol surely knew how to put yourself in his characters' shoes. Nat & Yaya defined challenges of becoming adults really well. Those movie references galore will draw laughs from film buffs.