In Thai BL dramas Last Twilight (ภาพนายไม่เคยลืม) and Us (รักของเรา), small but meaningful images of goldfish, sunflowers, and daisies quietly carry deep emotional weight. Though not native to Thai culture, these elements are powerfully used to represent love, healing, and coming-of-age moments.

🐠 The Goldfish – Fragile, Observed, and Longing

Across East Asian and Thai culture, goldfish symbolize luck, peace, and abundance. But in visual storytelling, a goldfish in a tank often reflects something more: a life that is protected, yet restricted. Characters watching goldfish through glass mirrors the slow bloom of affection—seen but not fully reached. It’s gentle, vulnerable, and distanced.

• In Last Twilight, the goldfish and play of light and shadow echo the male lead’s deteriorating eyesight and his shifting emotional vision.
• In Us, the goldfish appears in quiet, healing scenes—moments when trust is forming and connection is being gently rebuilt.
• These scenes are reminiscent of the iconic aquarium moment in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, where Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes first lock eyes across the water—a love both immediate and unreachable.

🌻🌼 Sunflowers and Daisies – Symbols of Hope and Soft Strength

Though not exclusive to Thai flora, sunflowers and daisies are powerful international symbols.

• Sunflowers, with their bright faces and skyward tilt, represent loyalty, hope, and unwavering love. In Last Twilight, the sunflower represents Day’s determination to find light, even as he loses his physical vision. And Mork, who supports him, becomes the “sun” in his fading world—warm, reliable, radiant.
• Daisies, simple and pure, symbolize innocence, friendship, and new beginnings. In Us, daisies appear during scenes of vulnerability and confession. They mark emotional growth—love budding into something brave and new.

✨ Visual Metaphors for Queer Love

These recurring natural motifs—delicate yet enduring—reflect the heart of queer storytelling: soft strength, transformation, and tenderness. The directors’ use of goldfish and flowers is not only aesthetic but deeply emotional. They remind viewers that even when love is quiet or constrained, it can still be luminous and alive.