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On his deathbed, Uncle Boonmee, recalls his many past lives.
Film Review
In a spirit haunted primordial jungle a joyful man is quietly, harmlessly dying, though there is never less than a smile on his face.The phases of his life play out before him. He is a farmer, a soldier, teller of myths, a husband, a father, an uncle. All these things quietly take their place in the narrative until the time when he must enter the underworld and pass on, guided by those who love him, both living and dead.As Boonmee reflects on his life the arc of Thailand plays out as well. From contemplative agrarian past, through the time of fables, to the war with the communist and on into the disaffected, modernist future where we see ourselves seeing ourselves seeing ourselves.All told with a minimal amount of fuss and effects, sewn together with threads of human intimacy, small gestures, a little sly humor and an over all meditative, knowing, measured rhythm.There was another movie out last year that claimed it was about dreams… an American film. It made a lot of money but felt…
As a newcomer to the phantasmal world of the highly acclaimed Thailand auteur (chiefly by the West world though) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, I feel repelled to indulge myself into his semi-spontaneously fabricated mythological world, notwithstanding that this film won Palme d'Or last year in the Cannes. His camera is never prying, plainly sticking there as an outsider, gazing the occurrence of the narrative. Ape-man, death, ghost, age declining, hallucination and a split-personal incarnation aka. the punchline in the end, all preserved in a boldly without-explanation mode, evokes the early works of South Korean auteur Ki-duk Kim (SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER…AND SPRING 2003 particularly), and furthermore it contains less storytelling, and drastically test the stoicism of its viewers, shamefully I slumbered for several minutes during the process. An interlude of the fornication between an aging princess and a catfish bewilders me and tantalizes me at the same time, the night-crui…
After reading some (bad) reviews about this movie, I decided to watch it regardless, after all I'm quite used to boring movies, if I were to believe the reviews.The problem is, I didn't find Uncle Boonmee to be boring (well, at least not too much boring), or even too pretentious, it's just the case that it was not what I thought – not at all.Where I had hoped to see a deep movie guided by a spiritual tone, I found a rather political piece (with nothing to do with past lives by the way), and I'm one of those who can't find a connection between politics and spirituality. On the other hand, as I was watching it, I was thinking if IMDb had classified this movie as a comedy – and bingo! Then there was the problem with all the relatives – I still cannot understand who Uncle Boonmee is uncle of. Sometimes the woman (not the ghost) is pointed as being Boonmmee's sister-in-law, sometimes like his sister. Sometimes the gorilla ghost is pointed as the son of that wo…
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