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Janice 2022-01-08 08:03:22
"Anna and the King", "The Last Emperor", "The Last Samurai"
This is a movie about Thailand (Siam) and its history that is rarely seen in English movies. Abandoning the minutiae added for plot rendering, the background is that the story takes place in Thailand at the beginning of the 19th century. At that time, Thailand survived between the British and...
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Jade 2022-03-20 09:02:17
dull
I don’t know if it took me a few days to read it, or why I didn’t finish it all at once. I feel like it’s pretty dull from beginning to end, just like listening to a story or a historical event without any turbulence in my heart. The only thing that felt a little bit was that the king invited Anna...

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Meggie 2022-04-21 09:02:56
The film was nominated for Best Art Direction and Costume Design at the 72nd Academy Awards. It has always been strange, why a king who is very good in English should invite a teacher who was born in India and only set foot in the United Kingdom once in his life to teach his prince who is already very good in English to speak English...even the highest prince in this kingdom, The Prime Minister, down to the servants, the handmaiden are more English than English.
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Keegan 2022-03-24 09:02:53
I watched this film to understand the history of Thailand. After watching part of it, I felt that it was far from the real Thailand, so I didn’t watch it further. Maybe it's good as a drama?
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