Ah Joe ON for Thai Film! (Hom Rong)

For the very first time, I am going for Thai film! It is a Thai film namely Hom Rong also known as The Overture in English. The Overture is a film based on the traditional musical involving a main character named, Sorm Silapabanleng who is talented in music. The movie is directed by Ittisoontorn Vichailak. Sorm is a Thai, who picked up the ra-nad ek, also known as the Thai Xylophone since he was a child and he played it throughout his whole life. At the begining, his father did not allow him to play ra-nad ek because he was thinking there is no future playing ra-nad ek.






One night, he stole his father's ra-nad ed while his father was sleeping. Somehow, his dad also noticed it. His dad did approach to his friend, who is a monk, instead of Sorm. This is because he wanted to know the opinion from his friend about his son playing music. The monk told him not to hide his talent. In the end, Sorm's father agreed to allow him to play ra-nad ed as he could see Sorm's talent. As he grew older, he started being more arrogant. One fine day, he met his master, Tian.  He was asked to play in a palace to compete with his main competitor, Khun In.

The picture above is called ra-nad ek.

 It has 22 wooden bars suspended by chords over a boat-shaped through resonator and is played with 2 mallets.

To me, I think this is very much of a motivational video. It shows how much Sorm has gone through no matter how much his dad did not allow him to play, no matter how much he failed to his competitor from the beginning. He practiced to play like his competitor, then he challenged himself to create new style of playing. He impressed everyone in the palace, not only everyone in the palace, but his competitor. His competitor was so challenged to play even harder until he fainted.

However, I find this script of this film is a little so typical Asian show. I personally think that most of the Asian show are very traditional. Unlike Hollywood's are very futuristic or very current generation kind of show. It is interesting how they put in an interesting way to motivate people by challenging people who are more senior than him, going through his dad who was highly disagreeing with him playing ra-nad ek.

Props and lighting are very decent. Not bad, not too good also. I would say above average. I would rate this movie as 7/10 as compared to all the Asian's film. As I mentioned before, we cannot compare local/Asian's film to Hollywood's.