Carla Do
a beautifully poignant modern romcom
one of my favorite romcoms of 2022. it's a very classic boy meets girl, unrequited crushes, bad-timings, friends to lovers trope indie-esque romcom (ironic because gdh is one of thailand's biggest film production companies).
i like that there's a lot of subversion to romcom clichés. regarding characterization, ml was a morally grey character and simping throughout the whole movie but i'm a sucker for him. there's references to the problematic nice guy tropes through out this film and i love it. i like ml's self awareness to a certain degree that he's not that nice guy.
many stellar comedic moments where i laughed out loud. like the humor is poignant and there's great comedic timing from both leads. really incredible performance from sky and june (ml & fl), especially with the plot line on missed timings. i liked how they did the open-ish happy ending which didn't feel rushed.
sky has been my absolute favorite actor since his tv series my ambulance and i knew june from bad genius series so i was really looking forward to their chemistry and they did not disappoint at all. 🫶
the story was told through ml's perspective so i'm kinda bummed we didn't get a full fleshed carved out character of what fl was like other than she was clueless and not knowing what to do with her life (which now that i think about, may be an intentional point from the director)
there are a lot of heartfelt moments in the film. my favorite supporting characters are probably ml's sisters. they really lighten the film's mood and make you root for ml despite ml makes a lot of dumb decisions. the most warm hearted moment is when ml just broke up with his ex and the sisters comfort him, like the whole cinema went 🥺.
the film has gorgeous cinematography. the director utilized a lot of filming techniques to get the message across and i particularly am impressed with the zoom-in-from-afar shots for comedic effect. very wes anderson-y.
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i love that ml & fl made some "terrible" decisions but the story handled it so well that all decisions make sense & the call between ml/fl to wrap up/resolve the conflict is really beautiful (i almost cried T.T).
OMG! is from the same studio that made the super popular romcom Friendzone (2019) (which starred Baifern and Nine) and both romcoms share great similarities premise-wise (unrequited crush, simping ml, friends to lovers, missed timings) but i think love OMG! more. although OMG! has less couple moments between fl and ml, i felt OMG! has more heart and better cinematography for me than Friendzone so I left the cinema feeling more satisfied for OMG!
i like that there's a lot of subversion to romcom clichés. regarding characterization, ml was a morally grey character and simping throughout the whole movie but i'm a sucker for him. there's references to the problematic nice guy tropes through out this film and i love it. i like ml's self awareness to a certain degree that he's not that nice guy.
many stellar comedic moments where i laughed out loud. like the humor is poignant and there's great comedic timing from both leads. really incredible performance from sky and june (ml & fl), especially with the plot line on missed timings. i liked how they did the open-ish happy ending which didn't feel rushed.
sky has been my absolute favorite actor since his tv series my ambulance and i knew june from bad genius series so i was really looking forward to their chemistry and they did not disappoint at all. 🫶
the story was told through ml's perspective so i'm kinda bummed we didn't get a full fleshed carved out character of what fl was like other than she was clueless and not knowing what to do with her life (which now that i think about, may be an intentional point from the director)
there are a lot of heartfelt moments in the film. my favorite supporting characters are probably ml's sisters. they really lighten the film's mood and make you root for ml despite ml makes a lot of dumb decisions. the most warm hearted moment is when ml just broke up with his ex and the sisters comfort him, like the whole cinema went 🥺.
the film has gorgeous cinematography. the director utilized a lot of filming techniques to get the message across and i particularly am impressed with the zoom-in-from-afar shots for comedic effect. very wes anderson-y.
spoilers
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i love that ml & fl made some "terrible" decisions but the story handled it so well that all decisions make sense & the call between ml/fl to wrap up/resolve the conflict is really beautiful (i almost cried T.T).
OMG! is from the same studio that made the super popular romcom Friendzone (2019) (which starred Baifern and Nine) and both romcoms share great similarities premise-wise (unrequited crush, simping ml, friends to lovers, missed timings) but i think love OMG! more. although OMG! has less couple moments between fl and ml, i felt OMG! has more heart and better cinematography for me than Friendzone so I left the cinema feeling more satisfied for OMG!
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