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Given the prevalence of high-stakes summative exams in Asian countries and the easy appeal of heist narratives, it’s no wonder audiences in the region gobbled this movie up. Its protagonists are a group of Thai students who devise an ingenious scheme to cheat on an international university admissions test and earn millions of bhat along the way. In short, Bad Genius is an exam cheating heist thriller. What’s so appealing about Bad Genius? Besides high production quality and excellent acting, the film harnesses themes familiar to global-especially Asian-audiences.
In fact, it broke records for the highest-grossing Thai movie ever in multiple Asian markets like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and China (it earned $30 million USD in China alone). We top off our list of Thailand’s best movies from 2017 with Bad Genius-which should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Thai cinema.īad Genius was the highest-grossing Thai movie of 2017-not just domestically, but all around Asia. Thai title: ฉลาดเกมส์โกง | Starring: Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Chanon Santinatornkul, Teeradon Supapunpinyo, Eisaya Hosuwan This 47-story tower’s construction came to a standstill because of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis it’s a haunting reminder of economic collapse that still looms over Bangkok’s skyline. 20 years later, Ib comes back to haunt Boum, who now also has a 15 year-old daughter.Īnother interesting tidbit: The Promise also features the abandoned Sathorn Unique Tower, perhaps Bangkok’s most famous urban exploration destination. As their families’ finances imploded, the two vowed to kill themselves together, but only Ib followed through. The Promise centers around a suicide pact that two girls named Ib and Boum made during this crisis. Hundreds of thousands of Thais lost their jobs, and formerly robust GDP growth screeched to a halt. In 1997, Thailand befell the Asian Financial Crisis when its currency (the Thai bhat) collapsed amidst massive speculative attacks. If mixing students with horror isn’t your thing, then how about mixing economics with horror? That’s one way to describe The Promise, a riveting 2017 Thai horror movie whose plot piggybacks on a pivotal moment in Thailand’s recent economic history. In 2020, the stars aligned to bring new takes (and comforting old ones) on the happily ever after.Thai title: สยามสแควร์ | Starring: Numthip Jongrachatawiboon, Apichaya Thongkham, Thunyaphat Pattarateerachaicharoen And don’t get us started on the screen talent- Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, to name a few. In this year, we saw a sequel, threequel, and even a film adaptation of a Broadway musical, not to mention the most elite of the crowded holiday movie landscape. Here are the best romantic comedies that came out in 2020. Luckily, movies like the genre-bending Palm Springs, the catchy The High Note, and the teen dream P.S. Clearly, the rom-com had a lot live up to in 2020. In 2019, rom-coms like Isn’t It Romantic cleverly played with tropes 2017's The Big Sick adapted a real-life love story and Always Be My Maybeinspired even more Keanu Reeves adoration. The films have experienced a necessary rebirth (even the ones that are still soothingly formulaic). Over the last few years, the rom-com genre has seen a reawakening, as the film industry flooded our screens with delightful stories that mix love with humor.
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