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Good thing I’m used to being alone. Eating alone never makes me lonely anyway.
PEACEFUL PROPERTY (2024) dir. Dome Jarupat Kannula
Peaceful Property - Wild Ass Theories
First and foremost, is nobody questioning the cage that was on the stage when Home was a kid? Because that is a cage, right? Right?
Theory #1 - Grandpa is the last ghost
Home inherited twelve properties, and we have twelve episodes, so we get a property an episode. His grandfather wanted a traditional 100-day grieving period before his ashes would be scattered at the little house, so the Scooby Doo Gang has 100 days to wrap this up since I think the grandpa will be the last ghost.
Theory # 2 - Home and Kan are related
I can't win prizes if I don't play games, and I think these two are related because 1) it would be funny that Home was trying to hit on Kan to begin with but also because 2) the grandpa's first wife had a three-year old daughter when he married her, then when his first wife passed away, he remarried and had two kids, one who is Home's parent, and the other is Home's uncle. There are a lot of gaps here because where is Home's other parent?
Plus the colors are coloring, especially for Kan, who is neutral color-coded up until now.
I've stated it every week, but Kan is not who she appears to be, because, Thai folks, correct me if I'm wrong, but all the names tie into the person. Home needs to find a home. Peach (food) needs to start cooking again. Ride needed to finish his last ride. Rak (beautiful) wanted to feel beautiful again. Pangpang (amazing) needs to be awesome. Even Best, if going off Pangpang's comments, needs to be the best. Which is why I don't think Kan is who she is because what does her name gotta do with anything? She is after something, and is it finding her parents? Her sibling? WHAT?!
She is always off doing something else when the ghost starts ghosting, so she has other plans, and I want to know what they are!
Theory #3 - Kan's ghost is from her childhood
Everyone has a ghost. Home's is his grandpa and Peach's is whoever is in this picture with him and Best.
And Kan is being haunted by . . . a parent? A sibling? Someone from her childhood? Which is why she doesn't believe in ghosts because if if they existed, she thinks her ghost would have already visited her, but they didn't. Not yet at least.
We know Kan has a sweet tooth because she eats sugar at the table during dinner and pours more into her meal.
She sits in the car with her sucker in episode three.
In episode two, she couldn't decide which sucker to get in the store.
And in the trailer, a ghost seems to be handing her a sucker, but she seems younger here. If Kan had seen a ghost when she was younger, she wouldn't be skeptical now, so this is Kan seeing her ghost and reliving her childhood.
Which would make my Kan and Home are related theory better if Kan believed her parent went missing due to Home's family which is why she is investigating them, but both of them actually lost a parent in childhood because they had the same parent!
Girl also knows how to lay a wig, so I think she had to work from an early age since she didn't have a parent.
Don't ask too many questions or the theory falls apart. Just go with it!
Theory #4 - This is a BL without being a BL for a reason
Heteronormativity was the issue this week. The Scooby Doo Gang almost missed Thansai being the recipient of Ride's gift because she is trans, and they were overlooking that. And what Ride was gifting her was a home.
Then, Peach popped this banger out of his mouth without hesitation that even if Ride and Thansai weren't able to be together romantically, they were still each other's family.
And of course Pangpang gave us this golden nugget of saying Peach and Home were the mom and dad of the family.
But also, Rak had a husband that the gang didn't even consider, and when the husband shared his story, he said he had done what he could to help her move on, but their love wasn't the focus.
So what happens when red + blue combine?
They make purple.
I'm giving the show too much credit only three episodes in, but is the love less meaningful because it isn't explicitly stated? Is the relationship overlooked because it doesn't fit the standard of what we expect? The story doesn't need to state it's a BL for us to know they are in love, which is why the show isn't a BL.
This show is giving us VISUALS! Like Rak with the wig.
The uncle and the past that is haunting him.
And Ride's head cut off in the mirror, but also being told his face is too serious, so he finally smiles in the end when he delivers his gift.
Kan doesn't believe in ghosts because she hasn't seen one, but she is ignoring everything in front of her. We are being told every episode to believe what we see by the visuals.
We need to believe what is right in front of us and quit overlooking it simply because it doesn't fit the norm or isn't the sole focus.
They are in love.
I wonder if Home changed after that night. He doesn't drive anymore and he keeps the car hidden away so it does affect him in some way. But I wonder if before he was even louder, more outrageous, or if that part of his personality became more pronounced as a weird coping mechanism. How often, if at all, did it come back to haunt him in the states, knowing that living there was his own weird, not at all appropriate or comparable, punishment. How much did it change his relationship with his grandfather? With his uncle?
Did he think about the accident at all when he came back, even if only out of fear that the consequences of his actions would finally come back to haunt him? Did he even know that the person survived after all?
What is he going to do now?
Thanks @almayver for this beatdown
Damn. This show really tied these dots together.
A good chef doesn’t throw in the towel so easily. I’m looking forward to seeing you as a full-fledged chef.
PEACEFUL PROPERTY (2024) dir. Dome Jarupat Kannula
NEW THITIPOOM as HOME & TAY TAWAN as PEACH
EP. 1 - 5 of Peaceful Property (2024)
Home is the reason Peach is haunted and now Peach is going to be haunting Home but hadn't he been this whole time. Home doesn't drive, Home isolates himself rather than looking for connections, Home assumes everything must be done alone.
Peach might see literal ghosts but he's been haunting Home's narrative for three years just as literally.
Peach was always jumpy. Peach was always the kind to jump at shadows and sounds. And then he almost died and now he can see ghosts and that hasn't helped a single thing, has only made it worse. And the one person who believed in him despite his jumpiness died and he was at fault, he used the wrong oil, he was so scared and so distracted by his own fear that he lost the one person who believed in him and now he is haunted by ghosts but even more haunted by his own past, by his own history, by his own loss, by what he did and what he lost and what he saw.
But this moment was what destroyed me because it was about Home telling Peach he had to face this alone and then still coming in to comfort before stepping out again, being the one to come through the door and hold him despite his own stance that this had to be done alone. Because being alone doesn't make you stronger. It's being together that does. It's being with the people you love that lets you grow stronger, it's being supported that gives you strength.
Thank you, though, for making my dream come true. Speaking of which, what is your dream?
PEACEFUL PROPERTY (2024) dir. Dome Jarupat Kannula
How would you know what is best for me? How? How would you? Let go of me! Let go! How could you do that to my friends? Let me go! How could you?
PEACEFUL PROPERTY (2024) dir. Dome Jarupat Kannula
The pancakes and the hope on his face and knowing that there's nothing he can do right now and that he can't ask for forgiveness because he waited too long to be able to say what needed to be said and now instead he's bringing all the work he put into his to them for pain and that's all that's left for him for a while. The hope. The way he ran. The taxi! Everything! And then showing up to them gone, to the home he'd given them empty, to the one place that was his and the people that were his, his family, evicted and gone and leaving him alone again, all alone again.
And the hope just draining from him. Everything leaving him and the loss of everything that had become important to him and knowing that he was losing it and that he would never get that back. The pancakes still in his hand. The hope he desperately wanted gone, the family he wishes for, gone. Everything gone because of people who think they're protecting him and have always been protecting him and assuming they know what's best.
They've been protecting him and isolating him for so long and now the consequences have arrived.
His family, trying to protect him, has taken away the only people who could see the him past who they had shaped and protected and now he lost that. He lost the safe place his grandfather left him, the people who'd turned it into a home, the place that let him feel like he was more than a lonely man with no dream to work towards and no goal besides amassing more money.
He made the pancakes with his own two hands. He refused all help. He worked as hard as he could and he did everything he thought was right and he begged Peach to wait and he told him he was his family but the truth caught up when he thought he still had time.
Peaceful Property went hard with dreams this week. You know, 'dream' like the American Dream? You know, 'dream' like Peach's dream of cooking in a palace for a bunch of rich people and refusing to make peace with a 'hypothetical' rival? You know, 'dream' like Home's nightmare of his poorer friend overtaking him for the harm Home caused him? You know, 'dream' like Home's fake dream of moving to America and having ten wives? You know, 'dream' like Home's real dream of having a normal family.
The dreams themselves had an air of love and hope about them, and they were nurtured with kindness and support by members of the ghost hunting team, but the show kept subtly drawing our attention to the hollowness, violence, and repression of the 'dreams' in this episode. These were capitalistic and patriarchal styles of dreaming.
Notice, they exorcised no ghosts this episode. We saw instead our influencer Chai-Un (Pompam, doing THE MOST with this Old Queen stock character) ignoring Peach's offerings to his family's ghosts and going full glutton all by his lonesome. The upper crust might offer invitation to one or two from the lower class entering into their echelons, but what has that spiritually alleviated?
If the mutual heartbreak at the end of the episode wasn't enough to clue you in, these themes are the biggest indicator that Home and Peach will end up together as family. The show has framed the inherent harm and distrust between the aristocracy and the lower classes as foundational in making the patriarchal family primary. I had previously thought there was a possibility we'd get a little weird found family ending. Home, though, faked drinking to let us know he's faking other things--heterosexuality. BUT ACTUALLY, we got so many references to full-on gayness this episode, but in ways that let us know the show has a queer Marxist vision even for that. Chai-Un referring to his partner as his "wife" and playing the stereotype of Rich Gay: these aren't arbitrary.
This gay baiting question is actually thematically important. I've been enjoying the revisit to some old-school homoerotic subtext, because old-school homoerotic subtext was often tied into the same problems of patriarchal capitalism. They forged intense bonds that they then had to sever to form family units as they economically competed against each other and maintained the honor of their patriarchal position. The participated in societal dick measuring contests to see whose estates were grander and whose cok was long, as the neon sign says.
With Peach's adjustment to the contract, we are now left with the possibility for Home's queerness and desire for Peach to possibly disrupt his family's fortune in a major way. If Home really wants to exorcise the specter of Peach's pain and suffering from his waking dreams, Home can't be one of the 12 gay billionaires in the world. He's not going to be his investor or his savior. He'll have to let go of his patriarch's will to find something that won't sooth his wallet but will sooth his soul, something decidedly 'not normal.'
Side note: Who gave this show the right to let New and Tay and Jan show the true force of their full RANGE????
Ugh! Peaceful Property! You wanted a cross-class romance!? How about we actually dive into the full-on physical and spiritual oppression that produces those classes?? How about we actually depict capitalist systems as literally horrific?? But let's not stop there!! How about we show the wealthy protagonist as directly complicit in those horrors?? Not enough?? How about we make him literally kill the poorer romantic lead?? How about we actually explore what it would mean for someone whose wealth is built on nepotism and a history of exploited labor to recognize what that means about their relationships to other people in the world?? What kinds of compassion do the wealthy need to ask for and what practices and mindsets do they need to change before those they've hurt can even begin to live life unafraid of financial ruin, let alone actually caring for the wealthy love-interest?? What ghosts haunt a cross-class romance and how can we truly exorcise them????
all the shots of Peach clutching Home's arm because he's scared and looking like he's about to snuggle into his shoulder
[Peaceful Property, ep 3, 2024]
It’s not even the fact that Peach and Home looked at each other while signing “love” that gets me. It’s that Phoom saw them looking at each other and immediately associated it with his feelings for Vicha. He had been watching them fight like an old married couple all day and reached the only logical conclusion that they were in love. I can’t.
Peach saying that he wants Home to beg him for forgiveness while cutting off contact, wanting him to come on his knees and plead with him but also refusing to speak to him in any capacity.
Home is so sad and tiny and desperate. He wants this so badly but he's never known exactly what to do or how to do it, how to ask forgiveness because he's never cared like this before. He's never had that family, that connection, no one but his grandfather.
And Peach still cares in his own way. Peach is just more hesitant to trust and much more willing to keep pushing. He has always had a loving family in Pang, even when things were rough. Home chose to be part of his family but Home is not all of his family.
WHAT.
But also, the preview told me two things:
One, either uncle is way shadier than even I suspected or someone is mucking with Home's hospital records for reasons of their own.
Two, Home was like this:
about the thing with Peach without one drop of alcohol in his blood.
I love that the second he realized probably very shady uncle was listening he just started blubbering. Excellent.