HOMESTAY (2018)
100 DAYS TO BECOME A NEW HUMAN…
This is a good movie of Thai cinema. When I watched this film, I feel a little sadness, because the Thai cinema had gone far beyond Vietnamese cinema, now it is far from over. Not only about the techniques, images, camera angles but also especially the story and the content are very real, despite the fantasy dimension.
At first, when I watched the trailer and read through the film summary I thought it was a fantasy genre mixed with horror and combined with investigation… But no, I was tricked by this first twist, this film’s genre is coming-of-age. The topic is suicide problem and the causes that can lead to suicide among at puberty age.
The film allows us to follow a “soul” who struggles to “stay” for 100 days in the body of a 16-year-old, Min. The task is finding out the cause of the direct impact caused Min to commit suicide. The reward is that the soul will remain in this body forever if it finds the right cause. That soul completely didn’t remember anything about who he was before, so everything is just a blank page. Then he lived Min’s life, he also fell in love with Pi, the older sister of Min’s excellent student team and former tutor. Sometimes when Min forgot his mission, “the guardian” reappeared and reminded him of the mission and the time limit was shorter. Then slowly he also revealed the truth about all the relatives around Min:
- Being hated by his brother, who just trying to let Min die so he could take it easy to study abroad …
- Being careless by the father, taking something in the house to sell and not loving his wife …
- Being betrayed by his mother, the one he saw is everything in his life, and she had another man and take care of his children…
- In the end, there is nothing worse than discovering that the person he loves is “sexually abused”, but in fact she let it be “exploited” by her own teacher in exchange for a position in the team of excellent students…
Therefore, living with people around like that does not commit suicide?!
In general, this is a movie easy to watch, easy to feel and easy to empathize with most characters. It helps us to love and cherish our lives because everyone can only live once, and we can not have another 100 days to start again as the story of the movie. The cause of suicide was not due to anyone, but it came from yourself, we did not realize how the people around us loved and cared for us. Suicide basically is that killed yourself, decided to come for yourself and no one decided for. That is why, “suicide” is the only sin that cannot be forgiven in Catholicism, it is a sin of not loving and cherishing yourself. If you still do not love and respect yourself, so you could not ask anyone to do it for you?!
RATE: 9/10
