"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" while watching and talking

Lavonne 2022-04-19 09:02:43

The reason for watching this film is that it was a film that won the Palme d'Or at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. Second, this is a film made in Thailand, and I have always been concerned about the development of the Thai film industry. In recent years, good Thai movies include "Ghost Shadow", "Ghosts", "Love of Siam", "The Little Thing of First Love" and so on. It is not difficult to find that Thai films are not very commendable in some professional aspects such as visual specials and film narratives, but Thai films have always paid attention to steady progress and fine workmanship, integrating a meaningful theme into a more exciting story. Coupled with the more delicate portrayal of characters and the arrangement of the story, it is indeed often able to impress the audience and present me with many classic films that are worthy of recognition in art.
Thailand is a Buddhist country, and when shooting horror films, it is natural to warn people to do good deeds and not to do evil, and they will be punished for doing evil. In this more intuitive way, tell people what they should do and what they can't do. Coupled with some ancient cultures in Thailand, it provides a good material and cultural background for the shooting of horror films, so the horror films in Thailand are very meaningful. These are some of the factors that make Thai horror popular, and this movie is also of this type.


In the first five minutes of this film, there are just a lot of empty scenes. Its function is actually nothing more than laying the tone of the film and giving some simple explanations for the background of the whole story. In the first ten minutes, I felt that the rhythm was a little slow. When a large number of characters and dialogues officially appeared, this feeling of procrastination disappeared. It was then discovered that this was an illusion, and the narrative drag was palpable.


So for that reason, that's it.

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives quotes

  • 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.