Boonsong: I couldn't have experienced this if I hadn't mated with a monkey ghost.
Boonmee: I know this man Dang who was paralysed. He drank this tea. Now he can walk fine and his piss is clear as water.
Boonmee: Jaai! Tell Buapan she's not needed tonight.

Jaai: Okay, but shall I come back?

Boonmee: Yes, of course. My kidney still needs you.
Tong: He said he can't eat egg yolk but I put in two yolks.

Jen: It's alright. Your kidney will be drained tonight.
Jen: Boonsong, your hair has grown so long.
Huay: Heaven is over-rated. There's nothing there.
Boonmee: I thought you said Laotians were smelly.

Jen: They are smelly. What are you thinking?
Tong: Auntie Jen, you're deliberately stepping on these poor insects.
Boonmee: You know, this is a result of my karma.

Jen: What is?

Boonmee: This illness. I've killed too many communists.

Jen: But you killed with good intentions.

Boonmee: And I've killed a lot of bugs on my farm.
Princess: Are you some kind of ghost?

Catfish: I'm not a ghost. I'm a catfish.

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives short comments

Douglas 2022-04-23 07:03:58

Desire manifests. Apichatpong's obsession with and exploration of national mythology has made him always look at history and life with a sympathetic gaze; while the installation artist's high sensitivity to media gives his images a valuable sense of modernity and reflexivity. Apichatpong built a confession room for Uncle Boonmee in the jungle, recalling the lost love and alienated blood, leading him back to the cave of his mother's body, connecting the "umbilical cord" again, and returning his sins and desires. The secret language and scars about the national history are encoded by photography, and the pursuit of the real son can only be copulated with ghosts and apes; the TV screen has become a mission field and spiritualism in the industrial age, and people are disciplined and extracted but cannot escape.
Edmond 2022-03-24 09:03:22

It is said that Bi Gan Apichatpong is very similar, but I feel that Cai Mingliang also has similarities. For difficult plots and ideas, the camera is pulled very far, very close and very long, or left blank. When the night falls, you can see the starry sky in the cave, the fish bathing under the waterfall, all these mystical semiotic images, flowing through the past life and the future. Some people figured it out and lay down in the photo, while some people couldn't figure it out and put on buddha clothes.