Movie advert I didn’t understand
It’s been on at the movies for months at least.
The guy goes to his girlfriend and shows her two tickets and says (what sounds to me like):
“May Mangann” (not the same?)?
The girl then takes off running madly. At one stage, while crossing a bridge, she loses her will to keep running, but upon remembering the guy’s voice “May Mangann” she gets strength and powers on. At one stage, she races faster than a train, then she runs through people’s houses and yard, before finally crashing through the wall of her own place.
Then she picks up a phone and (I think) happily receives a text message.
Then the screen goes white, and three long-haired Thai trendy types say
“kap khun khrap something something something” while waiiing and I don’t know why.
I recently had Brek and Godez visit and we went to the movies and they thought it was hilarious, but didn’t understand it any better than I did. Then a Thai speaker came to my rescue:
Those adverts are always admonitions to turn off phones, and the idea is to do them in funny and entertaining ways. When the guy says: ไปดูหนังกัน - “Let’s go to the cinema together,” she remembers that the proper thing to do in such cases is to always turn off her phone first, and so she rushes off to do just that - and his words give her the strength to carry on so that she can go to the cinema with him. In the end, she doesn’t receive a text message, but actually shuts off her phone - and then the 3 university students say something like ขอบคุณที่ปิดมือถือ, giving the message of gratitude to all considered, for turning off their phones.