Contributed by:Â Kamolwan Sriposil
There is beauty in youth and memories. The long forgotten days when everything was exciting, bright and hopeful. Starring the immensely popular Thai heartthrob, James Tangsrisuk, the movie, “Timeline: Letter and Memories”, delivers a poignant story of love and heart break and life altering experiences that bring about changes in life’s choices.
Tan, the main protagonist, a 19-year old boy, lives with his mother Mut, whose own love story began in the movie “The Letter” (2004, Dir. Pa-oon Chantornsiri, Thailand), in the picturesque strawberry farm in Northern Thailand. Growing up reading the letters that his father, who passed away before he was born, wrote to his mother, Tan, feeling smothered and pressured by his loving mother to study agriculture at local university escapes to study journalism in Bangkok.
Away from his mother, who never really moved on from her love with his father, Tan begins a new life at university campus, meeting and becoming a good friend with “June”, a happy vibrant girl who experiences life to the fullest. It is his relationship with June and his relationship with his mother that are portrayed in the movie, a tale of unrequited love and unforeseen circumstances that make up the timeline of Tan’s life that eventually, at the end, shapes Tan and the person he will become.
Beautiful and heartfelt, funny and reminiscent, watching “Timeline” will leave that ache in one’s chest long after the end of the movie as one reminisces one’s own bygone youth and the choices one has made in life.
Watch the trailer here:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHrjtsZ3wdk?rel=0]
