The Paradise of Thorns (2024) Plot Summary
Boss Naruebet Kuno’s The Paradise of Thorns marks his feature film debut after working on the acclaimed series, I Told Sunset About You. The movie centered around family politics along with marriage inequality, mind games and betrayal, features Jeff Satur and Engfa Waraha in starring roles.
The film’s storyline starts with a gay couple, Thongkam and Sek, who are in a relationship. They decide to pool their savings together to run a durian orchard, so they can pay off Sek’s father’s land and register it under Sek’s name. Sadly, an accident makes Sek lose his life. Enter Saeng, his treacherous mother, and Mo, her caretaker, who looks like a daughter to Saeng.
While Thongkam has good faith in accommodating them, he realizes that they are out to take over his durian orchard. This is bothersome considering gay marriage is illegal in Thailand, and Sek’s mother is in line to claim an inheritance, which would seize control over everything Thongkam owns.
Considering the emotional plot twist and the equally unanticipated bittersweet ending, here is an explanation of the ending in The Paradise of Thorns.
Do Jingna and Thongkam have feelings for one another?
Mo’s brother, Jingna, is brought to learn the ropes of durian farming so that Saeng can later kick out Thongkam. Immediately, Jingna takes Thongkam’s “side” because he makes a move when they share. He subsequently gets irritated when Thongkam mentions Sek over and over again. It later turns out that it is because he disliked Sek for being an idiot who was leading on both Thongkam and Mo.
As for Thongkam, he sleeps with Jingna out of spite after learning Sek and Mo were a thing. But it seems like he does take a liking to him when Jingna helps him get ordained.
While a monk, Thongkam is forced to emotionally blackmail Jingna into orchard sabotage and in the end, he regrets it when Thongkam discovers. In the rain, Thongkam helps Sek strengthen the sutures on the durians. He promises to leave with Sek after Thongkam regains control of the orchard. Thongkam graciously allows Jingna to stay, despite his intentions being touched.
They start dating and Thongkam spoils Jingna when they visit a temple, and the former hopes they can all live happily ever after. After Mo kills Saeng and takes over the orchard, Thongkam begins to leave and proposes to Jingna. Jingna agrees, even going as far as revealing his sister’s darkest secret – Mo murdered Sek. After Thongkam learns about Sek’s betrayal, he decides to be done with Jingna.
What was Lieuthong angry with Sek for?
When Mo and Saeng arrive and the struggle for the orchard starts, Thongkam discovers Sek had not only slept with Mo, but was her partner. It looks like Sek had been using Mo as a caretaker for his mother and Thongkam to manage the land.
As the childish arguments between Mo and Thongkam escalate, Mo proves her point further, claiming Sek used him as a cash cow. She insists that Sek intended to toss Thongkam out after their durian venture succeeded, and then he would go on to marry her.
At the end of the film, while Mo and Thongkam are fighting, she concedes and explains everything. A flashback shows that Mo was right. She and Sek intended to use Thongkam to acquire the orchard and then dispose of him. She waited ten years for Sek, but he loved Thongkam. He spends all his savings on her, gets her a job, and then departs for Thongkam. Discovering that Sek intended to use him utterly shatters Thongkam’s heart.
Does Saeng trust Mo and Thongkam?
Mo always looks after Saeng in the anticipation that the old lady will give her the land. At first, Thongkam does the same and takes a page out of her book. When Saeng does not allow him to nurse her, he tries a different approach. He gets himself ordained as a tribute to her and promises that he will make a million in profit for her with the durians. She agrees to adopt him legally and will leave the land in her name if he succeeds.
When Mo realizes that she is with Thongkam and Jingna, she is annoyed and tries a different approach to regain Saeng’s favor. She takes her to an air-conditioned supermarket. But while inquiries about getting rid of Thongkam, Saeng has other ideas. She prefers that nothing changes because it is only Thongkam who knows how to negotiate and sell the durians for them.
She doesn’t want to adopt Mo or transfer the land to her. Mo is done and breaks Saeng’s wheelchair, throws her in a basket by a cliff, and walks away. Reluctantly, Saeng signs the title deed to grant Mo control, pleading for her to return. Unfortunately, when Saeng falls, Mo allows her to die, having now attained the land in her name.
Who ends up with the durian orchard?
After Mo gets the land and marries Officer Tang, Thongkam and Jingna plot to steal some durians and make their escape. Mo intercepts them and begins cutting the durians they had taken.” Angered, Jingna tells Mo, “Sek didn’t die immediately after his fall. He needed his mother’s signature for an operation, but while he was waiting for Saeng to arrive, he died.”
It’s revealed that Mo faked an injury so that Saeng would be unable to get to the hospital on time. Thongkham’s rage leads him to start tearing apart the orchard. And when he tries to kill her, in the fight that ensues, she tells him that even in death, he will never possess the orchard. In a fit of rage, he decides that if steps are taken, then at least his child will inherit the orchard, and claim Mo’s rapist intentions out of anger. He changes his mind when he discovers from Mo what Sek’s true motives are.
It wasn’t just the money. Besides claiming to fight for the orchard which was jointly owned by him and Sek, “My Sek”, had divorced, broken hearted, he tells. Releasing the restraining order, he tells Mo to take it even though. But her husband tries to pay Thongkam back. In the interim, Jingna arrives, and Tang mistakenly shoots him dead. With the proceeds from the second batch of durians, he sprints off.
In unanswerable shock, Thongkam estimates the sums, which he is underwhelmed with, while mechanically giving evidence explaining how he remains related to Mo and Jinang. Rosalind anywhere spins, because if in her sleep she gets up walking seeing that chin, dully shudders, gets thrown over, without inhabiting. Afterward, the slack jawed exclaims dives down the orchard, which relinquished her stacks for her to rule over for all eternity.
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