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By Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
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Quirky comedy about a cup-stacking champion; language.
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Fast & Feel Love
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What's the Story?
In FAST & FEEL LOVE, Kao (Nat Kitcharit) has triumphed over the high school guidance counselor who tried to dash his hopes for a career as a speed cup-stacker, and he has worked his way around the distractions that disturb his concentration and interrupt practice. He's avoided all this because his protective longtime girlfriend Jay (Urassaya Sperbund) has for years been shielding him from real life to support his cup-stacking. Now 30, her biological clock is ticking, and it seems clear she can't depend on Kao to be an equal partner or father. When she leaves him and threatens to sell the peaceful and sheltering house they own together, he has to either learn to handle adversity, wash dishes, make the bed, pay the bills, cook for himself, and juggle his finances or never become a self-sufficient adult. Can he do all those things and still beat the speed record set by a small boy halfway around the world?
Is It Any Good?
Fast & Feel Love ironically puts camerawork and editing more commonly employed in action movies in the service of learning to love and understand ourselves and others. There's lots of great advice for anyone trying to step from adolescence into adulthood, something it's suggested that millennials may struggle with. With a refreshingly original voice and vision, writer-director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit beautifully uses multiple narrators, a character who knows he's in a movie, sound effects, overdramatic music, and close-ups to insert wry, comic wisdom into this quirky tale about a quirky man competing in a quirky sport while trying to learn how to live life like a responsible adult.
The story will resonate with anyone who is obsessed with work, sports, or hobbies to the exclusion of everything and everyone else. That Kao might be somewhere on the Asperger's spectrum is an unspoken possibility; there are hints that he struggles with ordinary life in a way others may not. He doesn't look people in the eye. He has trouble bonding with others. His great breakthrough comes when he realizes that those pesky others have been helping him succeed all along, even if he never recognized or acknowledged the fact.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the lessons Kao is forced to learn about how to take care of himself. What are some of these lessons?
What did you know about speed cup-stacking before you watched this movie? How could you learn more about this sport?
What does the movie say about what happens when you try to avoid the normal drama and distractions in life?
Movie Details
- On DVD or streaming : September 1, 2022
- Cast : Nat Kitcharit , Urassaya Sperbund , Anusara Korsamphan
- Director : Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
- Studio : Netflix
- Genre : Comedy
- Run time : 132 minutes
- MPAA rating :
- Last updated : September 18, 2022
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