Underplayed Gems

Bangkok Traffic Love Story (2009)

Bangkok Traffic Love Story poster
Original title
รถไฟฟ้า มาหานะเธอ
Directed by
Adisorn Trisirikasem
Genre
comedy film
Country
Thailand
Runtime
2h 06m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 31 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A thirty-year-old woman feels pressured because all her friends have married before her. She meets an engineer who works on the city's skytrain system and they start a relationship.

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What happens

Bangkok Traffic (Love) Story (Thai: รถไฟฟ้า มาหานะเธอ, RTGS: Rot Fai Fa Ma Ha Na Thoe), is a Thai romantic comedy film released by GTH on 15 October 2009. It was directed by Adisorn Tresirikasem and written by Navapol Thamrongruttanarit. The film tells the story of Mei Li (Cris Horwang), a thirty-year-old woman feeling desperate about being last among her friends to marry, and her relationship with Loong (Theeradej Wongpuapan), an engineer working on the BTS Skytrain system. The skytrain, which celebrated its tenth anniversary the same year and lends its name to the film's Thai and English titles, is prominently featured throughout the story. The film was criticized for its loose plot, but critics felt that young middle-class female Bangkokians could identify with the contemporary setting. The film was financially successful, earning 57 million baht on its opening weekend and over 140 million baht after four weeks. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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