Enigma

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How many days did I skip posting a blog here? I am sorry for being inactive. I have been facing a problem here in our house, but never mind, I feel a little better now.

For today's blog, allow me to share with you what I watched last week. I started to watch this last August 29, and I finished it last Wednesday of this week.

I want to share with you a good drama series to watch. It’s not Korean-made, but this time it’s Thai. The last time I watched a Thai drama was during the Mario Maurer era. Can I be honest about why I don’t watch Thai movies and dramas nowadays? It’s because most of the dramas they air are BL and GL. I don’t hate the LGBTQ+ community, but I’m just not comfortable watching two boys and/or two girls doing the things that are usually done by a man and a woman.

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The Thai drama I’m talking about is Enigma. I know I’m two years late because this series aired back in 2023. I honestly didn’t know there was a non-BL/GL Thai series like this at that time.

The genre of this series is a supernatural thriller, but it’s also categorized as a drama, which is why I decided to watch it. That’s also the reason I was shocked and a bit confused while watching, because it actually has some horror vibes in it.

Anyway, the cast is familiar to me. The male lead is Metawin Opas-iamkajorn also known as Win Metawin , I know him because of my best friend, who is addicted to watching BL series. I also know the female lead, which is Chanikarn Tangkabodee also known as Prim. (Oh! Erase! Erase! I didn't know her; I mistook her for Baifern because she looks exactly like her here.) 🙏🏻😭

Now let me share with you some of my random thoughts while watching this series. Let's go!

The first thing I noticed was their phone. Usually, actors and actresses in dramas use well-known or very popular gadgets like iPhones or Samsungs. But this? I wasn’t sure if it was a Xiaomi Redmi Note 13, an Infinix, or a Vivo, since those are the only phone brands with similar colors and designs.

I was amazed by the props. I don’t know if they bought them from a shop or if the director and staff were just really creative. I also admire the director for the uniqueness. It actually reminded me of my high school days when we also had to be creative in making props for our multimedia activities. Aside from writing scripts and editing videos, we also had to make props using cardboard, stones, used CDs, and so on.

Of course, shanreyo! Since it’s a television series that can be aired worldwide, they really need those things for the drama they’re producing.

I actually love the plot—like, seriously! You know what I mean? Charought! To be honest, I didn’t like Win Metawin before. I never really got the hype around him because I thought he was actually gay. But after watching him act, I was really amazed at how well he portrays every character he’s given. Now I understand that he’s not actually gay in real life; he just plays those roles as part of his work. I admire him for that, because it’s not easy to portray such a character if you’re straight in reality. I don’t know him personally, of course, but I see him as manly *(After i saw his abs 😂🙏🏻)*.

In this part of the series, the mask really gave me trauma. Like, damn! I couldn’t handle it. It wasn’t at all what I expected, since I usually manage to guess what happens next and even figure out who the real villain is in this kind of genre. But this time, I really didn’t see it coming—there was something I totally didn’t expect. That scene behind the mask is still stuck in my mind. My God!

This drama series is not the first one made in Thailand that I have watched. I actually watched a lot of Thai horror movies, and one of them is The Death Whisperer, which is what I actually remember here on this bamboo tree.

I said that I am not a fan of the GL series. But now, I finally get it! Dang, she's pretty and hot here in this part. I jaw-dropped while watching her like that. I really see some girls wearing eyeglasses much prettier because they have beauty behind those glasses. That’s why I’m now a fan of Prim. Aside from Baifern, she’s the second female lead whose beauty and acting skills I truly admire.

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According to Google, ‘Enigma’ means a person who does mysterious things, or something puzzling and difficult to understand. That’s why I get why I couldn’t understand much at the beginning of this series—it was actually quite difficult to follow at first. But that doesn’t mean you’d want to stop watching it. In fact, it makes you even more curious about what will happen next, so you keep going. Besides, this series only has 4 main episodes, but each one is divided into 4 parts (a total of 16 episodes), with a runtime of about 9–15 minutes each.

This Thai series is really worth watching! I truly admire the director for producing such a show. The magic, the props, the storyline, and the cast they chose—all of them were superb in their acting! Compared to some past Thai drama series I’ve seen, I can say they’ve really improved in both directing and acting

I rate this 10/10! Even though I’m two years late, I think it’s truly a masterpiece—one of those shows you can rewatch no matter how many years pass. Plus, there’s an ongoing season this year, but I’m not sure if I’ll watch it yet, since some viewers have said that Season 2 might be a bit disappointing. Hmm... Let's see. 🤔

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(source: tmdb.org)

“You would be all speaking German if not for us Americans”, was a saying quite common among those Americans who took Hollywood’s treatment of Second World War seriously. American contribution to the victory in Hollywood films was inflated at the expense at the expense of countries that paid much bigger butcher’s bill or spent more time fighting. The latter included United Kingdom, where the way Jonathan Mostow’s treatment of Battle of the Atlantic and capture of Enigma in U-571 created outrage. A year after that came the Enigma, 2001 British spy thriller directed by Michael Apted that, in its own way, tried to set the record straight.

The film is based on 1995 novel by Robert Harris. The plot is set in Spring 1943, when Allied convoys are crossing Atlantic Ocean in an attempt to deliver vital supplies of food, arms and ammunition to Britain and Soviet Union, while being targetted by German submarines. Germans have equipped with Enigma machines that encrypt and decode messages in a way that make them incomprehensible. Or, that is what Germans like to believe, unaware that the British government has formed top secret cryptographic centre in Bletchley Park and manned it it with top mathematicians and other experts. Partially due to obtaining one of the Enigma machines from captured submarine two years earlier and partly due to having true geniuses among among the staff, Bletchley Park has managed to crack the code and convoys can cross Atlantic with little bit more safety. But, few days earlier Germans have suddenly changed the code and that happens just before a strategic convoy is to sail. Because of that mathematician Tom Jericho (played by Dougray Scott) is summoned back to Bletchley Park despite being removed one month earlier because of nervous breakdown. Apart from German code, Jericho has another mystery to solve – disappearance of his attractive girlfriend Claire Burrows (played by Saffron Burrows). Jericho gets help from Claire’s room mate Hester Wallace (played by Kate Winslett) and gradually becomes convinced that Claire was German spy. Mr. Wigram (played by Jeremy Northam), MI5 official in charge of protecting the project, shares the same opinion and has Jericho put under surveillance.

Despite being another work of fiction, Enigma is much closer to historical truth about deciphering famous German code than U-571. Produced by Mick Jaegger (who briefly appears in cameo role of RAF officer), it had less budget than American war spectacle, but this allowed that event to be depicted as mostly intellectual effort conducted in top secret facilities rather than action adventure at high seas. The cast is mostly decent, including Dougray Scott, a British actor specialised in playing villains who here uses opportunity to play protagonist relatively well. Kate Winslett, who was pregnant during the production, is decent but unremarkable. Jeremy Northam, on the othe hand, is having a ball playing the antagonistic and cynical counter-intelligence operative. Veteran director Michael Apted handles the material very well, but Tom Stoppard’s script near the end succumbs to spy thriller cliches. Music score by prolific and otherwise dependable John Barry is too monotonous and disappointing and Enigma actually became the last title in Barry’s filmography. Despite those flaws, those who watch this film are going to be not only entertained but educated about fascinating but relatively obscure episode of Second World War.

RATING: 5/10 (++)

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