Love me long time

This is a very short film, a shade over 30 minutes, and even then you get the idea that the director may have run out of material. After a promising start, with tourists and bar girls giving their take on life in Koh Samui, the scene switches to the monthly Full Moon parties on Koh Phangan. Some good shots of the young, the beautiful and the not so beautiful getting wasted on the beach, but there is no real connection to the main story. One assumes that the production team decided that if the film was less than half an hour no-one would take it seriously. After that brief interlude, its back to the plot and some of the stories set up in the first half are brought to at least a partial conclusion.

If that intro makes it sound like I didn't like it, nothing could be further from the truth. This may just be investigative journalism at its best. Because there was no presenter. The interviews were played without introduction or editorial and they spoke more eloquently than a front man reading his autocue ever could.

Barry, Tony and Justin all fell for Thailand and its women and explain exactly why that is just so easy to do. Justin's is the cautionary tale, as he discovers that things may not always be as they seem in the Land of Smiles. Nit demonstrates that you don't have to beautiful to snare a western man and explains that a monthly cash transfer will not secure a loved ones fidelity. 

They used to say that everyone going to Thailand should read Private Dancer by Stephen Leather. A quick look at this won't do you any harm either - find it here: Love me long time

This is a completely non-judgemental film and the producers should be congratulated for that. It shows that men can make idiots of themselves in Thailand if they are not careful but lets the viewer make up their own mind.

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