“Since we’re here, we should eat like the locals.”
NEVER LET ME GO (2022)
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I love Never Let Me Go so fucking much that I'm overlooking Palm's arm healing in a day.
It is giving me every single thing I have ever wanted from the bodyguard/rich kid narrative, and it's GAY! It's a queer The Bodyguard and Bodyguard (Netflix), and that's all I've ever wanted out of life.
Then, it's teenagers instead of adults which makes it more satisfying since they are trying to figure out their growing emotions under the oppression of their parents' expectations.
Part of me wants Chopper to be behind releasing the photo because that's the pain that teenagers cause when they don't think beyond that moment
And we saw that with Nueng's behavior towards Palm
But Nueng apologizes, and that apology is worth more than the shoes he tried to buy Palm as if he could throw money at his problem
Because even though his pain is valid since he believes that nobody truly wants to know or love him for who he really is, he can't lash out. So Palm offers a kiss, but instead of this kiss helping, it complicates everything.
Palm thinks Nueng wants this kiss to forget Ben, and Nueng thinks Palm is giving him this kiss because it's his job to make Nueng happy. Neither of them touch each other during the kiss because a touch would give away that this kiss is something more for both of them.
But Palm holds all the power. This prince/servant dynamic hurts Nueng the most because he can never be sure if Nueng likes him or is doing what he is being told.
And that is the best part of all of this. No matter how much money or power Nueng has, Palm could destroy Nueng with just one glance, and Nueng craves that. When Palm doesn't look at Nueng, it breaks Nueng. When Palm uses language to distance himself from Nueng, Nueng is devastated.
Nueng wants Palm's love, not his loyalty.
Nueng wants Palm to wreck his lonely oppressive life, not to save it.
Ruin his life, Palm.
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idk how to express all the feelings i have about nueng finally choosing to step towards what tanya has wanted for him - and the fact that it only happened to protect palm and mam.
palm doesn’t belong in this world. it’s so evident in everything he does. he’s so physically capable, but he doesn’t have any real inclination towards power or even survival in the same way that most of the other characters on this show do. everything he does is powered by love - he said it himself all the way back at the beginning, when he was helping nueng to use a gun at the shooting range. he’s motivated not by anger but from his love for everyone around him.
and he has so much love inside of him - for nueng, almost immediately after meeting him. for his father, who always seemed to treat him more like a tool than a child. for his mother, who chose to love herself over him.
nueng never wanted to belong in this world. the beginning of the show has him constantly rebelling against his own place in it, against the things that were and would be expected of him. he doesn’t seem the same now, though. palm told him to be motivated by love too, and i think nueng is very much motivated by love - it’s just that that looks different to palm. palm’s love is so soft and trusting and loyal to a fault. nueng’s love is fierce and sharp and wounding. nueng has seen both his parents shot in front of him, has seen palm and mam subjected to people more powerful than them.
nueng never wanted to belong to this world, but he does - and accepting his place in it gives him more power and opportunity to keep the people he loves safe. palm’s heart is too pure for that. nueng’s never has been. that doesn’t mean that nueng wants it now, or that it’s what will make nueng happy. nueng doesn’t believe in his own chance for happiness, he’s said that before. he’s still trapped in the role he was born into - only now, he understands how he can make that role work for him. it won’t make him happy, but it can help keep the people he loves safe.
palm doesn’t belong in this world, but he’s going to put himself in it over and over and over again anyway, just as nueng does. it’s not as neat a fit and honestly it’s a bit like chucking a mouse into a blender and hoping for the best, but honestly he’s scrappy and he’s got a potentially fairly lethal boyfriend, so maybe his chances could be worse.
idk, it’s the mutual “i’d die for you” energies for me, bro. pls @ boys don’t take that literally thank u xoxo
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If I think too long about the nlmg characters I will chew glass but anyway. the core story of nlmg is wanting and all the different ways that manifests - Uncle Kit wanting power, Non wanting to pay back his debt, Chopper wanting to love - and it's such an interesting contrast to our main characters, where Palm doesn't really want for anything throughout the series except for Nueng, and Nueng wants for so many things that he finds in Palm - how that wanting is what saves them both in the end.
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fuck her
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"love cannot solve everything" nueng says and palm, again and again, tries to show him that he's wrong. reassuring his doubts. forgiving his mistakes. telling jokes to make him smile. holding nueng in his arms rather than letting him push him and everyone else away. taking a gun and pulling the trigger without hesitation.
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Both Palm and Nueng downplay their own importance to each other, push the narrative that their lives would be better without the other person without understanding that their live wouldn't be without the other.
Palm doesn't have and didn't have dreams before Nueng. He was living his life day to day, never thinking about the future, never planning anything or thinking about anything that wasn't just living.
Nueng's dreams were his parents, his future was theirs, his future was what they wanted and his plan was to live up to their expectations and fulfill their dreams for him exactly as they wanted.
And from each other they have learned to look to the future and to let go, to plan ahead and to live in the moment. They have given each other dreams and they have given each other moments and they have shaped each other in ways they don't see because they're too focused on the sides of themselves that only they see, the failures that are personal to them.
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There is something about the show beginning in a restrained purple
And Nueng and Palm mainly existing in the purple...
You know what? Never mind! It's likely nothing! It's probably just the lighting for nighttime. Let's not be excessive.
but...
when Nueng thinks about Ben at night, he is lit by red.
Possibly because Ben brings more of the same normal red Nueng is usually surrounded by to Nueng's life
Well, at least until thoughts of Palm start to creep in
Because Palm gives blue
and takes red
And the purple appeared in the background during the daylight when Nueng was watching Palm while playing piano
Well, until he saw Maggie playing around with Palm. Then, Nueng blocked the purple
And he tried to cover it up with red by drinking into the night
While Palm remained highlighted by blue
The whole time Nueng was yelling at Palm, the purple was stifled, and the purple wouldn't appear again
Until Nueng called out for Palm
And it began to creep onto Nueng as he reached out to Palm
After the fight, Nueng woke up in the blue
And his mother showed him love in the purple
Something he has been missing from his mom since his father's death, and only gets from Palm
So he tried to apologize to Palm by buying Palm the shoes he wanted, but Palm was strictly in the muffled blue and not willing to take any red
But after Nueng was bullied at school, and Nueng verbally apologized to him, Palm was willing to give color love
But when they got home, the purple faded (pay attention to the color as they walk in)
As Nueng worried his mom would be disappointed in him as she sat strictly in the red
But, as before, she surrounded him with purple love
So maybe purple is love because we know blue boy + red rascal = pair purple and pink
Why else would the credits be in the spectrum of blues and reds making pink and purple?
Or it could all mean nothing.
Maybe cinematographer Rath Roongrueangtantisook who worked on 3 Will Be Free and A Tale of Thousand Stars just really likes purple. Maybe he likes it so much that hints of it were included in the OST. Maybe...
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