Timeline (2013)

What goes around, comes around!

This movie was made in 2013 and it shows: the Thai BL industry was only starting to explore the market and the budgets were limited but creativity was there.

There are three seemingly independent stories: the first one about a high school couple exploring their burgeoning feelings for each other, the second is a story of a gay influencer couple who are being stalked and the third one is about a small hotel owner falling for one of his guests. The ending surprisingly connects all three stories together. And therefore explains the title because I must admit I could not figure out why the movie had this title while I was watching it! All comes to those who wait!

They were directed by three different directors and you can tell. The first story looks like a high school project, badly filmed and acted, all over the place. The story about discovering one's own sexuality and acting upon it, is told well and though it looks messy, there are no red flags!
The second story is somewhere between a comedy and a horror, not really knowing what it wants to be. It also briefly touches upon the ugly side of intensive social media presence. What goes around....The filming is ugly though smoother than the first film.
The third story was the best in terms of storytelling as well as filming. It was polished, flowed naturally and there were more feeling involved. It is a story of a hotel owner looking after his bedridden boyfriend who suffers from an unknown sickness and is feeling miserable. One day a guest comes to stay in his hotel bringing back the laughter, joy and happiness in his life. He is so sorely tempted.

The quality of the movie grows as it progresses: if you manage to watch the first story without dropping it, you will end up loving this movie in spite of all its flaws. Keep in mind it is a low budget movie made 10 years ago and you should forgive them for some amateurish looking scenes!

I wanted to add cast and crew but they are not known to MDL so you can find them here:
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/362535-timeline?language=en-US

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STORY/PLOT:
I thought there were 3 separate stories but I think I was wrong. The transition from the first story to the second story was quite quick as well. The screen just turn into black and tadaaa a new story was set in place. I somehow watched this film before but I can't really remember if I really did saw it before. After watching the second story it came to my realization that I indeed watched it before. The big twist was in the end when it turned out that the characters in the story was the adult version of the two main characters in the first film. I was just not able to comprehend if the second story were connected to the first and third or was is independent from both stories. But it was quite a good film.\

CAST/ACTING:
The actors on the first story were quite mediocre in terms of acting but they did well. Among three stories I guess no one would question me if I would say that the second story bears the most emotional plot but I think the actors were not suitable to each other. Among the three stories what I like most was the third one because of the story. The acting skill was good as well.

MUSIC:
Honestly speaking my copy for this movie was not that good and the music was greatly affected because of it. So I don't have much to say in this part. :-(

REWATCH VALUE:
I think watching it once was enough but as what I have said I accidentally watched it again but I guessed it would never happen again. :-)

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