Dew (film)
The film tells the story of Pob and Dew, teenage boys who develop feelings for each other amid the prevailing homophobic attitudes of 1990s Thai society, but then become parted.Their parents are brought in, and they both face tensions at home, Pob being verbally abused by his Chinese father and Dew's mother unable to say that she still loves him.When she confronts Pob for secretly handing in an assignment she missed, he replies that he wants to make amends to someone who might represent a friend he once knew, to which Liu asks him to stop, as she wants to be like everyone else.It is revealed that a year after running away, Pob returned home to find out that Dew had been hit by a car and died the night he left.He visits her at the flat where she lives alone, and finds her room plastered with Dew's interests, including the Magic Eye 3D illusions he used to show Pob.As the video goes out, Orn leaves Pob, and he loses his job, though Ms Ratchanee expresses her understanding and, recognizing he was talking to Dew, tells him not to let past wounds keep him from growing up.In contrast to the South Korean original, in which the protagonists begin as a young heterosexual couple and the girl dies and is reincarnated as a male student, Chookiat decided to significantly alter the story and placed the homosexual relationship in the past, when the relevant social issues could be strongly presented."[8] Mano Vanawearusit, writing for IT/lifestyle website Beartai, noted that the film was held back by the creative choices taken in adapting the source material.By placing the gay relationship in the first half, the story lost steam in the second as it was reduced to repeating the forbidden love theme in a less sympathetic context.