Yuthlert’s Fatherland (2013) was self-censored from release as the filmmaker saw the film’s sensitive political and religious contents to be detrimental to the situation in the South. Samanrat’s Shakespeare Must Die (2012) and Nontawat’s Boundary (2013) were banned because of the strong political messages the films covey (Boundary’s ban was later changed to “18+” after some re-editing). Tayawarin’s Insect in the Backyard (2010) was banned due to the presence of sexual organs and acts that would make Buddhism look bad. On the first day at the school, Kru Nipon, the school’s discipline administrator, checks the male students’ haircuts. Since the first episode, Hormones made Thai audiences uneasy by showing Win rebelling against the school’s authority in front of other students and teachers. These issues include, for example: sexual desire among students (especially through Sprite, a female character who is portrayed as sexually open-minded) the discovery of homosexual desire (through a character called Phoo) and the challenge to the school’s authority of Win, a male character who is depicted as having a critical mind, and to whom I would like to put most of the focus on in the following discussion. Hormones became the ‘talk of the town’ not only due to its western-styled series convention, but also through its explicit portrayals of social issues that can be found in actual Thai high school life. Some of the conflicts include the intimate relationships among the characters, the violence between rival student groups, and the gender identity of the male characters. The classic and long-running Nong Mai Rai Borisud (“the innocent troublemaker fresher”), aired on Channel 3, changes its situation and conflict every week, allowing the producer to continue making the show endlessly. In the past, television shows about teenagers were usually presented as situation comedy. Hormones has become a new phenomenon for Thai television. These students are ‘Win’ (Patchara Jiratiwat), ‘Tar’ (Kan Chunhawat), ‘Moak’ (Sirachat Jiaratawon), ‘Phai’ (Tanapop Leeratanakajon), ‘Phoo’ (Jutawut Patarakumpol), ‘Sprite’ (Supassara Tanachat) ‘Kwan’ (Angsumalin Sirapatanasakmetha), ‘Dao’ (Sanatachat Tanapatpisan), and ‘Toey’ (Sutata Udomsilp), all of whom possess different personalities and face different conflicts in their lives. Set in Bangkok, Hormones follows the lives of year 10 ( mattayom 5) students from a fictional school called Nadao Bangkok. Directed by Songyod Sukmakanan, Hormones could be seen as targeting the young generation, who are already the fans of GTH films, as well as their parents.
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