Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Tropical Malady

Thailand

Typical fare from this guy...the man with the unpronounceable name.

It took quite a while for him to identify a protagonist. It turned out to be a soldier...possibly gay...infatuated with a man who repels his overtures. After an hour of noodling he goes into the forest at night, stays there, has a fight with a naked ghost and eventually a confrontation with a tiger.

As the film developed it became more abstract/opaque. There may have been cultural/folkloric meanings that I missed. The "resolution" didn't, for me at least. This was one of his less interesting films in spite of some startling imagery.

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