Picture: Ah Jing (right) and Ah Bai have a good relationship when they have known each other for a long time

Hong Kong people are familiar with the concept of soldiers in the so-called "corps". They are the "Guanyin soldiers" who can't become lovers with girls and can't hang around.

《Go! The goddess (Guanyin) in "Goddess Corps" is A Jing played by Ping Caina, and the soldier is A Bai played by NINE. The two have been close friends since middle school. After Abo accompanied Ah Jing to track down and witness her father's affair, the two have remained friends and dare not take another step forward. In the past ten years, the two people's love lives have been exciting in their own way, until A Jing's relationship with her current lover and marriage partner, Atai, was in crisis, and Abo was dragged around again to track her lover down, looking for clues about her lover's infidelity. At this time, Abo felt the need to express his true feelings and jump out of the Friend Zone...

Willing to be a "soldier"

In fact, this kind of story in which a man and a woman have known each other for many years, have a good impression of each other but are worried about damaging the relationship, and there has been no further development, can be said to be commonplace. In other words, the situation of being rejected/used by the woman and becoming a "soldier" is a little different. When the director dealt with the relationship between Abo and Jing, it was rare that one of them was not portrayed as a twisted single-minded person. Instead, the two kept a distance and each had a different love affair, which was no different from the world of ordinary people. There is no too much "herbivore", fairy tale or bloody treatment, which makes this love drama enjoyable to watch.

《Go! "Goddess Corps" reminds the author of an old Cathay Pacific movie, "Stewardess" directed by Yi Wen. In the movie, Abai's occupation is a flight attendant. Although his career is only scratched in the movie, he flies from Bangkok to various parts of Asia: Phnom Penh, Kuala Lumpur, Yangon, Hanoi, Manila, Hong Kong... The male and female protagonists keep flying back and forth. But like "The Stewardess" sixty years ago, "Go!" "Goddess Corps" also systematically displays various routes of airlines, but today's air travel is just a matter of time. Even when they were in middle school, they followed Ah Jing's father to Chiang Mai and bought tickets on the spot and boarded the plane. The on-film prompts used to separate the time and space of each scene in the movie also start with international airport codes such as BKK and HKG. If you say this is an advertising film for Thai Airways, I will believe it.

Hong Kong filming

Looking at it as a travel film, these overseas destinations are many, but the scenes that appear are mainly hotels, restaurants, recording studios and other places. There are not many tourist attractions, and these attractions are mostly seen in scenes where the male protagonist perfunctory his substitute lovers... Only in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong section is the most eye-catching. It is not only the climax of the drama - Ah Jing finally confirms that her lover has cheated on her, but also the "movie wonders" such as the night tour of Nathan Road's sightseeing bus, neon tube signs, and Jackie Chan action movies. Perhaps in the eyes of Thai filmmakers, the most attractive location for local audiences is Hong Kong?

《Go! "Goddess Corps" is a very typical middle-class interest. In addition to beautiful people and beautiful scenery, the two people's careers are also out of this world. One is a young master who flies around in the sky all day long and keeps falling in love to forget his love (but he has time to fly to other places to accompany his goddess at any time), while the other is a manager of musicians who combines work with his hobby. This can be a movie produced in any country or region, because there is almost no local life at all... This is the price to pay for falling in love, but audiences everywhere will suffer.

In the movie, Ah Jing and her boyfriend Artai want to create an advertising song that brings together singers from all over Southeast Asia to sing in various languages, so they have to fly back and forth to record. This somewhat reflects the ambition of Thai filmmakers and even their entire entertainment industry to expand their territory.