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This movie is being shown now at Cathay cinemas (subtitle).
Caught this movie with some of the bros as part of our pre-xmas celebrations, although the party was soured by the Toffees loss at Old Trafford, but I will leave that for another day.
Citizen Dog is essentially a love comedy but the movie did touched on something deeper. I believe the director is trying to bring across the fact that city dewellers r losing sight of the simple things in love and r losing themselves to material/ostentatious pursuits - hence the apt title (Citizen Dog). The movie also make a subtle dig at foreign worship and environmentalists.
Overall, a refreshing movie with usual Thai humour. However, the already thin plot was wearing really thin towards the end and a shorter version may just help to sustain more viewer interest right to the end.
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..essentially a love comedy but the movie did touched on something deeper. I believe the director is trying to bring across the fact that city dewellers r losing sight of the simple things in love and r losing themselves to material/ostentatious pursuits - hence the apt title (Citizen Dog). The movie also make a subtle dig at foreign worship and environmentalists.
Good critique, which about says it all.
Refreshing movie outing (from usual commercial offerings). For me, it was the microcosm of city life in krung thep - daily grind, odd ball characters, loneliness and relationships. How apt, on chasing illusions (aka misguided dreams) as compass for mundane lives. Love angle was incidental and probably necessary.
And we can all relate to the environmental dig, so relevant and topical today with global warming etc. Loved that glorious tinted and slo-mo view of Issan country.
My fave character must be the smoking teddy bear, speaks volumes on social commentary.
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Caught this movie with some of the bros as part of our pre-xmas celebrations, although the party was soured by the Toffees loss at Old Trafford, but I will leave that for another day.
Citizen Dog is essentially a love comedy but the movie did touched on something deeper. I believe the director is trying to bring across the fact that city dewellers r losing sight of the simple things in love and r losing themselves to material/ostentatious pursuits - hence the apt title (Citizen Dog). The movie also make a subtle dig at foreign worship and environmentalists.
Overall, a refreshing movie with usual Thai humour. However, the already thin plot was wearing really thin towards the end and a shorter version may just help to sustain more viewer interest right to the end.
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Originally Posted by yinyang
Good critique, which about says it all.
Refreshing movie outing (from usual commercial offerings). For me, it was the microcosm of city life in krung thep - daily grind, odd ball characters, loneliness and relationships. How apt, on chasing illusions (aka misguided dreams) as compass for mundane lives. Love angle was incidental and probably necessary.
And we can all relate to the environmental dig, so relevant and topical today with global warming etc. Loved that glorious tinted and slo-mo view of Issan country.
My fave character must be the smoking teddy bear, speaks volumes on social commentary.
I watched the movie with my 2 pals above and really enjoyed it, at least before towards the end
Clearly this is not your typical love story. Indeed, Citizen Dog is filled with so many unusual & different ideas, images and characters that you are never quite sure what is going to hit you. The director has certainly a vivid imagination and an off-beat sense of humour. However, halfway through the film it looses its momentum...and fails to recapture the audience's attention, when it simply runs out of story.
And we can all relate to the environmental dig, so relevant and topical today with global warming etc. Loved that glorious tinted and slo-mo view of Issan country.
My fave character must be the smoking teddy bear, speaks volumes on social commentary.
The environmental dig was quite apt given the current focus on climate change and global warming. The smoking teddy was a stand-alone dark comedy. Kawaii Ne!!
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saw in the wikipedia bangkok dangerous will have a remake...
At the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, the Pang Brothers announced they would remake Bangkok Dangerous with Nicolas Cage in the lead role, though Cage's character would not be a deaf. With the working titles Big Hit in Bangkok and Time to Kill, shooting took place in Bangkok in August 2006 with the release set for February 2008.
Slight correcton bro......in the original the male lead was also not deaf......he was a mute.... being deaf I think it will be a wee bit hard to carry out his duties as an assasin dun you think?
This film was nominated for the 2005 Golden Kinnaree Award for best film at the Bangkok International Film Festival and has won various awards at smaller festivals around the world. Watch with your tiraks at night!
JWNY
Shutter - ชัตเตอร์ กดติดวิญญาณ
Directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun / Parkpoom Wongpoom
While driving home one night after a gathering with friends, Tun (Everingham) and Jane (Thongmee) accidentally hit a woman who is crossing the street. Shocked, Jane wants to see if the woman is alright, but Tun insists they flee the scene.
Sometime later, while taking pictures of a graduating class, Tun notices a horrible-looking face standing between the graduates. When he has the pictures developed, he notices the faint profile of a face in one picture. While looking closer, the face turns in a flash, revealing a haunted face with a fierce gaze.
Tun continues to have strange experiences and eerie encounters with the entity from the pictures. He has a persistent neck-ache since the accident, but a doctor finds no physical cause. Tun also has a bizarre encounter with his friend Tonn, who sneaks into Tun's apartment and claims that he needs the photos Tun has hidden away or else "she" will kill him.
Jane, who's been sensing strange things as well, decides to investigate the school where the ghostly images were taken. She soon discovers a photo of the girl in Tun's pictures, and looking in a yearbook, discovers a picture of her with Tun.
Meanwhile, Tun checks on Tonn at his apartment, but finds the place a wreck, and the table is covered with pictures which show ghostly blurs like those in many of Tun's pictures. At that point he turns to see Tonn jumping off the balconey to his death. He then learns from Tonn's wife that his other two close friends have also committed suicide.
Jane finds out that the girl on the photos was Tun's ex-girlfriend, Natre (Sikamana). Tun says that his friends used to think Natre was strange, so he kept his relationship with her a secret. When Tun broke-up with Natre, he says that she threatened to kill herself, so his friends said they would take care of the situation for him, after which time he never heard from her again. They decide to pay a visit to Natre's hometown to see what became of her.
On the trip Tun sees Natre standing behind them on the road in the rear-view mirror, so he speeds away from the intersection at 120 km/h, but Natre appears outside the passenger window, then on the trunk of the car, which causes Tun to swerve off the road. When they arrive at Natre's mother's house, they notice a foul stench, and they soon find Natre's decaying body in a bedroom upstairs. Tun and Jane persuade Natre's mother to have her remains cremated so her spirit can finally rest. They discover that she committed suicide by jumping off a hospital roof after a failed attempt to overdose on pills.
That night in their hotel room, Tun is haunted by Natre, who chases him down the staircase and then out onto the fire escape. She causes him to fall off and he wakes up in hospital the next day. Jane tells him that Natre is to be cremated that day and that their troubles are over.
However, when Jane has her vacation photos developed, an extra roll of film (which shot itself prior to their leaving to go to Natre's house) has also been developed, and in the photos she sees a visage crawling across their living room floor. Jane orders the pictures sequentially and sees that the visage is slowy crawling towards the bookshelf.
In the bookshelf she finds negatives which she develops, and discovers that Natre was raped by Tun's friends, while Tun himself took pictures and refused to help her. In disgust, Jane leaves Tun, who then begins burning all of the pictures in which Natre's ghost has appeared.
Tun calls upon Natre and asks if she really loves him and if her love is really everlasting. He begins taking pictures of the apartment to find out where she is, but can't find any trace of her so he throws the camera down in anger. However, the Polaroid takes a snapshot automatically while pointed at him and Tun looks at the image as it develops. To his horror, he sees that Natre was actually with him all the time: on his shoulders. This explains his neck pain, his sudden weight gain on a scale and other events in the movie.
Natre covers his eyes, blinding him, and Tun backs up and falls out the window of his apartment, but luckily he survives. Jane visits him at the hospital where a reflection on the glass on the door to his room reveals Natre still sitting on Tun's shoulders, showing that so long as he lives, Natre will never leave him alone.
Merry Xmas my bros...actually uploaded this morning at 0500hrs but fell asleep...your Xmas blockbuster in MP4 format
...SBF Thai movies critics Siskel & Ebert
TWO THUMBS UP!
Bro reddy, I'm only the retiree behind the counter serving you the popcorn. Occassionally, I get to sneak in for some celluloid escapism.. comes with the perks of the job. This 1's happened to be thai in arty farty picturehouse
As far as critics go, used to like our very own Kelvin Tong's reviews before he upped to make his own movies (eg Maid etc).
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Clearly this is not your typical love story. Indeed, Citizen Dog is filled with so many unusual & different ideas, images and characters that you are never quite sure what is going to hit you. The director has certainly a vivid imagination and an off-beat sense of humour. However, halfway through the film it looses its momentum...and fails to recapture the audience's attention, when it simply runs out of story.
JWNY
well, i'd give the movie a lil credit, a 7 outta 10. i feel to some extent the message was brought across in a lighter node, heavily sprinkled comedy at moments least expected. i kinda like how the punch line was presented; that we musnt forget about having objectives in our lives, that the objectives be reasons and, not becoming the cause for our strife.
i'd concur with bros yinyang & tom on their thoughts; that the idea was somehow a re-awakening, reminding us city dwellers to not be sucked into society's drift. that we should at times, stop to smell the roses amidst the hustle & bustle...
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爱一生中不多不少，会有一次不得了，其实没人比我知道 你就是我的不能不要。如果黑夜太难熬，我陪你日夜颠倒，爱一场该付出多少-因为你我不计较。 a beauty; a blessing... a pauper; a curse... a beautiful impecunious; not sure if its a blessing or a curse
that couple no shame wor cant belive HTD cannot 'c' them in action lor!!!!
come to think of it, it the both of u had actually filmed it with your trusty camera-phones... then there'd be something even more interesting to post for sharing here liao hehehehehe.
naughty action with thai dialogue in the back ground, who knows... may also pass of as thai (hand-held/ home-made) movie... LOL
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爱一生中不多不少，会有一次不得了，其实没人比我知道 你就是我的不能不要。如果黑夜太难熬，我陪你日夜颠倒，爱一场该付出多少-因为你我不计较。 a beauty; a blessing... a pauper; a curse... a beautiful impecunious; not sure if its a blessing or a curse
24-12-2007, 03:30 AM
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