Barb Rak Ta Lay Fun (2017)

abuse is not romance.

Whether out of complicity, condoned, or ignored - Everyone associated with the male lead abused the female lead. Exactly like in the original; a matching revenge-marriage-plot, with ongoing kidnapping and imprisonment story-line the mainstay. But, unlike the original, there are no repercussions. Though there is a shift in blind loyalties in support characters, there is silence from our unrepentant male lead. Those drunken floor scenes are some of the best, albeit time waste, wallowing in self-pity moments I've ever seen come from an abusive male character. Add the cringe-worthy suffering second female lead's pity-fest in culpability, and this remake becomes the 'sniveling version'. "Barb Rak Ta Lay Fun" is a toxic and venomous cruel mess under the guise of revenge. A depressing remake of a bad drama. Not recommended.

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Abusive and Pyscho Male Lead

This was originally one that I was afraid to watch because I was afraid there was rape in it but since I saw the tags, and I saw no tags for rape I went through with this. Since there is no review why don't I just write one.

Despite there being no rape in it for a slap kiss lakorn it is a total waste.

Even Rak Rai being the draggiest and boring slap kiss lakorn is better than this one. The male lead in this one had no redeeming qualities, except that he did not rape the female lead despite multiple attempts I'm sure he would have if something did not come up though. The male lead was a psycho completely, and abusive. It was not romantic and the male lead did a great job in showing this, I would never want to be a such a twisted relationship, if this lakorn did not have a happy ending and instead was portraying a sad ending because it wanted to show that toxic slap kiss relationships like this are not supposed to work out, I'd probably raise this to a 9 no kidding but since this lakorn was made to show the assaults, and the psycho male lead as romantic I'd say please run away from this lakorn. The male lead was a a cheater, displayed emotional abuse, and tortured the female lead in a horrible manner, there was no rape but the emotional trauma he displayed was almost on the same level (I cannot speak as I am not a victim but there was a lot of emotional trauma in this please do not be offended, I just need something to compare it with). He gets about 30 minutes of screen time redeeming himself in the end because he loves her, and he cannot live without her, when one hour again he was trying to torture the female lead so I did not get the redeeming and also he might have gotten more redeeming than what some lakorn male lead's do but the screen time does not match up to what he did to her.
Ah our female lead I have nothing more to say than she started off strong, but as most lakorn slap kiss female lead's go through, she is a subject of abuse and weakness and loses her weakness once she falls in love. Although she couldn't do something, when she was being tortured she was still a bit stronger than her lakorn counterparts and at least she was just devoid of emotion at that point at least that is how she acted; only thing she cared about was her father which again he went through so much torture by the male lead that by the end both FL's father and FL were suicidal. After getting kidnapped by the male lead, and escaping her doormat female lead came through, and just because he loves her she forgives him, which I cannot see how she would ever but that is lakorn female lead's to her. I like the actress and she did a decent job in portraying herself as this female lead.

There was a secondary couple that I didn't care much about really but nothing you should try out just for them because it seemed like a toxic relationship too. Instead this time it was more of the second female lead being plain out rude to the second male lead, not much screen time, not much chemistry and not much worth of watching for.
They did a okay job at this, the secondary characters. The Nang rai did what she did, but I pitied her a bit since the male lead was cheating on her, but then again what kind of mental asylum patient would want the male lead, oh I forgot there's a human/banshee called Nang Rai (Second Evil Female Lead). She didn't stand out much compared to some Nang Rai's (Bee Namthip in Buang Hong, Mint N. in Raeng Pradtanaha, Nychaa in Piang Chai Khon Nee Mai Chai Poo Wised (This one is batshit crazy) ). Maybe it was the way her character was written but no nothing I would put in my top 10 Nang rai list. (Yes I have one, don't judge).

Male lead had no personality except for revenge, if I were to rate him in terms of revenge I would say 1 billion because usually revenge lakorns have Stockholm syndrome and less revenge, but this one was the unstomachable type of revenge. Now don't get me wrong because I love revenge dramas and lakorns but the way he took revenge was plain out right nasty, not rational, and the male lead was dumb. It is sad because this lakorn had a cute funny start to it, and both characters had a personality, surprisingly but it was ruined to become a typical horrible lakorn. I don't know why I decided to watch it thoroughly, maybe to write this heck of a long review just kidding, the revenge starts off pretty late in this one and that's when pyscho male lead comes out so since there was just a short time left, maybe I was just like let me finish this. Well it was a time waste and run away. For yourself, *your mind inside: Please do not watch this You: Okay your mind inside: oh my god your doing me a favor).
3.5 stars overall only because the actors did a great job, especially the male lead Satra, and I don't think music stood out to me so honestly I forgot so it get's a 5.0 nothing of the normal great Ch3 music.

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