It feels good to say goodbye ...

[Smiles]

When the day is boiling hot at mid-day and walking around under the vicious sun I must obey my Dermatologist who insists that I never go out without at least a light jacket. Young hi-so ladies down from Bangkok for a few days walk around here with kitschy umbrellas ~ parasols if you will ~ great flappy hats and attitude a-plenty , but that's not my kettle of fish so from 1-4 pm I'm essentially grounded, happy to wash the underwear or clean the floors whilst the old man hangs out with his customers on the wide and windy beaches at Prachuap Khiri Khan, or the steep cliffs of Pala-U waterfalls.

What better than to throw aside the Hoover for an hour or so and watch a movie. I have Netflix here, but although the quantity of films is prodigeous the pickings often leave me cold as I browse through the Ninja Warriors (1~8) or the eyeball-rolling concept of having to sit through one or the other of 23 editions of the god-awful Harry Potter saga. Just shoot me.

Anyway . . . today I chose a Thai movie on YouTube (with the usual iffy English subtitles). This choice may horrify you ~ it does for me a lot of the time ~ but I actually hit on a decent one: a Thai gay movie with the ubiquitous teenagers in school shorts (blue, brown, black take yer pick) and white shirts and fat girls in badly fitted skirts.
This genre is well known by most farangs as they skip forward looking desperately for the sex scenes, only to be somewhat disappointing in the quest where our horny desires bumps up against the woefully authoritarian Thailand censors.
But, all is not lost on this movie. The two main characters (Chai and Aek) are 18 years handsome and have a terrifically successful 'feel' for each other. The story line is 10 minutes tacked onto the beginning and the ending, and the 100 minutes in between being all flashback. Yes, it's a long movie which, after much attempting, pulls one in quite well, and I began to enjoy the length.
Although the sex scenes (only two) were typically restrained they were erotic/tender enough and the last one close to the end of the movie has a strangely sexy scene ~ which works ~ showing nothing at all but winding legs and feet.

Watch "Feel Good To Say Goodbye" and you might well find yourself being drawn in enjoying this film. Certainly no masterpiece, certainly somewhat cliche-ish and derivative of many another school-boy gay movie (there's a million of 'em), certainly a bit slow at times, and certainly it is not "Looking For Leonardo"
I enjoyed the two hours ... you may as well.

On YouTube hi def:

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