Friday, April 25, 2008

Syndromes and a Century

This Thai film is so god am bad it makes "I Know Who Killed Me" seem like a two-star Woody Allen film. It was well reviewed, but then, so was "Juno," so that doesn't mean much. Thai censors wanted a few scenes cut from the film -- images of a monk strumming a guitar and a doctor kissing his girlfriend. What's amazing is that the Thai government paid someone enough money to sit through this film to see if anything should be cut.

The filmmaker described the movie as being about change and how people transform themselves. And watching it got me thinking about change. How if this was on TV, I could change the channel. But since it's a movie, all I can do is stop watching it, or just scream at the TV, "Turn the pange!"

1 comment:

michaelgellis said...

jed, still waiting for your reveiw of "teeth"...you know, the man-eating vagina horror flick?