Parents' Guide to Love Destiny: The Movie

Set in 19th century Siam (later called Thailand), LOVE DESTINY: THE MOVIE is both a romantic comedy and a historical drama rolled into one, almost like an Indiana Jones story but without engaging adventures. Bhop (Thanawat Wattanaputi), a young and highly-placed engineer, is obsessed with dreams about an ideal woman, causing him to avoid meeting Gaysorn (Ranee Campen), the woman his parents have betrothed him to. He claims he's been too busy to meet his fiancée and, as years pass, the obsession for the fictional woman only grows. Without meeting Gaysorn, he breaks the engagement and numerous social norms. Anger and bad blood result between the families, which doesn't help when he spies a beautiful woman, who looks exactly like his dream girl, and it turns out to be Gaysorn. She plays hard to get and he doggedly pursues. The subplot accompanying his endless attempts to win her over involves Mathus (Paris Intarakomaly), a young time traveler from 2021 who is dropped into the plot complete with his cell phone, Ray Bans, and social media-based romantic advice. He works for a rapacious colonial British company that is trying sell Siam a steel coal-burning ship and also subvert its prince's rule. A journal kept by a time traveler from 2018 (Gaysorn's previous incarnation, we later learn) plays a role as everyone tries to figure out what will happen next.