About Young Love: Having a Crush On Your Senior

This was the most popular scene from the movie -- when Nam confessed to Shone. At this part Shone asked her if she was okay, and she shows him the 'ok' sign, even when she feels the other way round.

    A Crazy Little Thing Called Love is a romantic-comedy film from Thailand that was released in 2010. It was directed by Puttipong Pormsaka Na-Sakonnakorn Wasin Pokpong and produced by Somsak Tejcharattanaprasert Panya Nirankol. Puttipong’s films are either comedy or RomCom films. He has directed four movies, and the movie I am introducing is his most popular movie. 

    This film used a story line that is about young love and the cheery life of students in high school, which will surely grab the attention of young adults and teens. Nam, a 7th grade student, has a crush on Shone, a 10th grade student. She did everything to make Shone notice her, from following the instructions on the book, 9 recipes of love (for students), which her friends bought, to trying to improve how she looks and how she behaves. The concept of young love was well-portrayed in the movie, hence all the butterflies created in our stomach, and tears shed out of the pain we felt when Nam confessed to Shone, but found out that he was together with his best friend (even when the truth is that he secretly liked Nam back). The producers also put popular celebrities in their film (Mario Maurer and Baifern Pimchanok are two of the said celebrities), so that their fans will be encouraged to watch the film. They wrote a good plot and used effective lines for comedy. The songs that were used in scenes are also appealing and catchy for the audience.

    The movie tackles about true friendship, that a group of friends may have a misunderstanding, but in the end, they will forgive each other and will still be by each other’s side as life goes by. It inspires students who have a low rank in school to strive harder, as it was shown in the film that from the 30th place, Nam slowly got to the top of her batch by studying hard and achieving high grades. She also became popular when she started to look more ladylike. What was being omitted is the fact that people will only notice and appreciate you when you look pretty. That our society today values the ones who look pretty more than those who do not.

    The audience may be inspired by the concept of the movie, of young love and the thrills of it. They may be motivated to improve and enhance their selves to be more attractive, fashionable, and studious until they achieve high grades. The girls may have set their standards about a boy higher than before. As for me? Well... I was given hope that someday, someone I like would secretly like me back, if not the same intensity then with higher intensity! Haha, kiddin’. 

    I think that the message of this movie was designed to relate to the people who secretly like someone, which will most likely be popular among the young age group. It also aims to give hope to those said people. The movie will also like to show us a peek of the life of a family that is still holding the bond together, even when one member of the family (in this case, Nam’s father) is away from them. Most of all, it tells the audience that no matter how long you are apart from someone, if you two are destined to be together, then you two will find your way into each other’s side in the right time.

     Do you want to check the movie out for yourself? Then here's where you can watch the movie with English subtitles.