Directed by: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Here's the deal, you really wanted to like this movie but you just can't. Even though it has won Golden Palm at last year's Cannes Film Festival and it could bring you some dim hope that this will be some spark of thought provoking piece from a new movie but after seeing this disjointed vignettes of nonsense and too simple magical realism you will come into one cruel conclusion, that the film with the real title; Lung Bunmi Raluek Chat is nothing more than just some pretentious pseudo intellectual trash trying so hard to be artsy. Some incoherent mess people will call as as art in order to make them look important and sophisticated in front of people they wanted to impress since they just follow what the critics said instead of having their own opinion.
I am not going to praise this film just because everybody else is praising it, in my opinion, this one is a boring film and fail to impress people and don't give me the bullshit that it is my mistake since I have some hope for this film because it has won main prize at Cannes since what would life be without hope. Besides it's not like I hope that this film will appear in 3-D.
Uncle Boonme is an absolute bore. Make no mistake I do like weird and surreal films, like Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 which in my opinion is superb, but this film about an uncle called Boonme (Thanapat Saisaymar) who can recall his past lives and has serious kidney problem, coupled with apparition of his long deceased wife and spirit of his long lost son in a form of a scary monkey with eyes glaring red in a dinner table.
The rest is an incoherent mess filled with a catfish having sex with a princess and some kid soldiers in pictures.
This film seem try so hard to grasp the metaphysical and dreamy substance with hints of Thailand's folklore but fails to impress common people like me. I don't know why the critics like it, I even think that this film doesn't deserve to win Golden Palm at all and be in the same league with Das Weisse Band or Un Prophete.
In one interview the director said that this film is a symbol for the death of cinema. Well he got it right there, more boring and pretentious movies like this will sure bring people to sleep at the cinema.
Here's the deal, you really wanted to like this movie but you just can't. Even though it has won Golden Palm at last year's Cannes Film Festival and it could bring you some dim hope that this will be some spark of thought provoking piece from a new movie but after seeing this disjointed vignettes of nonsense and too simple magical realism you will come into one cruel conclusion, that the film with the real title; Lung Bunmi Raluek Chat is nothing more than just some pretentious pseudo intellectual trash trying so hard to be artsy. Some incoherent mess people will call as as art in order to make them look important and sophisticated in front of people they wanted to impress since they just follow what the critics said instead of having their own opinion.
I am not going to praise this film just because everybody else is praising it, in my opinion, this one is a boring film and fail to impress people and don't give me the bullshit that it is my mistake since I have some hope for this film because it has won main prize at Cannes since what would life be without hope. Besides it's not like I hope that this film will appear in 3-D.
Uncle Boonme is an absolute bore. Make no mistake I do like weird and surreal films, like Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 which in my opinion is superb, but this film about an uncle called Boonme (Thanapat Saisaymar) who can recall his past lives and has serious kidney problem, coupled with apparition of his long deceased wife and spirit of his long lost son in a form of a scary monkey with eyes glaring red in a dinner table.
The rest is an incoherent mess filled with a catfish having sex with a princess and some kid soldiers in pictures.
This film seem try so hard to grasp the metaphysical and dreamy substance with hints of Thailand's folklore but fails to impress common people like me. I don't know why the critics like it, I even think that this film doesn't deserve to win Golden Palm at all and be in the same league with Das Weisse Band or Un Prophete.
In one interview the director said that this film is a symbol for the death of cinema. Well he got it right there, more boring and pretentious movies like this will sure bring people to sleep at the cinema.
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