Unknown filmmaker | Phak Dee (Good Mouth [People Who Sound Arrogant]) / 2017

preferring her brother

by Douglas Messerli

 

Director unknown Phak Dee (Good Mouth [People Who Sound Arrogant]) / 2017 [2 minutes] [commercial advertisement]

 

A young boy enters a class room where another cute boy sits, the first boy clearly angry. He wants to know whether or not the other made his sister cry.

   The second boy wants to know, in turn, if the other boy is the kind of guy who thinks of women as a toy. The first boy grabs him and pulls him up, telling him he sounds “arrogant.”

     The second comments that even if he’s arrogant, he’s serious about everything, slowly and gracefully moving forward into the other’s territory as they stare, almost lovingly at one another, eye to eye.

      He tells the other boy that he told his sister to forget about him, that he doesn’t think of her like that. “That I prefer her elder brother,” he finishes, all the time moving closer and closer almost into a gentle kiss.

 

     Suddenly, he backs off a little from other’s face, noticing his lips and asking, “What’s this?”

     Immediately, he gets out his lip balm and gently applies it on the other boy’s lips, when he finishes, dropping it into the boy’s school-uniform front pocket.

      A second later, school bag on back, he begins to stroll out of the room, turning back to say, “Be sure to use it regularly so you’ll be sure to know what my lips feel like.” He walks out of the room.

      The narrator continues: “Even if you’re arrogant. No matter how rough they are, they’ll turn soft.”

     At the same moment, the first boy, left in startlement, puts his hand to his mouth in memory of the soft kiss-like touch.

    As the camera pans over, we see a clutch of five girls who have just witnessed the entire scene, almost moaning in envy and desire.

      A note tells us that the word Phak dee literally means “good mouth” (“people who sound arrogant.”)

      The cute remaining boy gives the camera a kiss.

      Surely only a Thai commercial production company could imagine making a sexy advertisement for Lip Care balm centered around boylove.

 

Los Angeles, September 6, 2024

Reprinted from My Queer Cinema blog (September 2024).