There are some people who think love is sex and marriage and six o’clock-kisses and children, and perhaps, it is, Miss Lester. I think love is a touch and yet not touch.--”The heart of a Broken Story

Sometimes, love is a state of limbo, especially when you are being stuck in the friend zone.

If you trapped the same situation, friend zone, it is a great time to you to across the board. Be a one-call away friend or be brave? This movie will show you a possibility. For the bulk of audiences, keep the movie for the Weekend nights, grab your favorite snacks and sink into a sofa for refreshing yourself from exhausting work.

From ‘’Can wejust befriends?” to “Are we justfriends?”

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It is a romantic comedy likes a personal diary, which records a play boy Palm ((Naphat Siangsomboon))tries to find a way to demonstrate his love to Gink (Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul) who is his best friend since high school days. Palm loved Gink deeply and he was afraid of his feelings would end their friendship. During 10 years, he starred an always-there kind of friend in Gink’s life until Gink was betrayed by her present boyfriend…He finally knew the real score in his mind, looking for a chance to bare his heart.

Just have fun

This movie absolutely deserves you to pay 30 yuan for perfectinga fantastic imagination of love even though it just happens in theaters. It integrates all must elements for consisting a romantic movie: main protagonists with good-looking, picturesque landscape, quite surprising plot twists and a light and interesting tone. Moreover, it simply shows an intact storyline which I admired. It displays the process of chasing love. At beginning, there are 2 plots foreshadowing for the later story directly so that you are able to follow the narrative smoothly.In other words, audiences can easily get values of the film from the director.

A healing journey

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If the director said, a romantic comedy movie sets someaction scenes, what do you think of it?It may indicate women slapeach other fiercely, accompanied with shouting and their friends try to stop people from fighting, whereas the lead plotted that of roles is the slender girl, Gink, herself. According to the preview，Gink is hanging on an advertising board, like Jackie Chan, and burst into tears. I have to say, compared with the sametype movies, Friend Zone is out of my expectations a lot. Two characters frequent physical knack which sustain the traditional style of Thai comedy to perfect the relaxing phenomenon.

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According to the character background setting, Gink is a travel enthusiast and Palm worked as a flight attendant.By the way, as witnessing the progress of their relationship, you are gifted a free chance to travel around the southeastern Asia area with the couple, not only Thailand, but also Myanmar, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Under covid-19, an outbreak you never know when it will be controlled, it is seemed that everyone depressed by the panic and anxiety for that of impacts. People struggled, for the future life: saving money, unemployment, closed resorts… But these sceneries do help you recall your “good old days”, perhaps with your families, friends or lovers, releasing your intrinsic pressure meanwhile making a hopeful expectation.

Even though I love the chemistry between Gink and Palm, for example their eye contacts, which actually offers animmerse experience, the movie endures too long to follow. Admittedly, due to it does not bring anything new into the pool of similar comedy, audiences almost up to speed on the plot developments and basic information at first so that they are eager to see the climax and conflicts. What’s more, to attract more attentions, producer mantitled the movie as created by the team of Bad Genius, whichhas already racking up high scores with critics.

Love is blind

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Friend Zone is released on September 22, 2019, in mainland China. Although this film has taken $9,894,885ingross worldwide box office, it only got ¥52.225 million in Chinese with low degree of market acceptance, according to Maoyan Movie. A user comments,” The definition of the friend zone is unethical.” However, love is blind. We can find angry, sweet, frustrated, and so on emotions without logical and a restrict standard. When people discussing reason, they are philosophers rather than lovers.

Overall,

Storytelling : 5.5

Cast: 8

Recommendation rate： 7.5