The third Abang I watched, he gradually got better, at least he won't be sleepy anymore... Fantasy Cemetery is really sleepy and I'm speechless. My favorite one is Tropical Diseases, and this one is not bad either.
Some personal guesses, combined with the history of Thailand and the plot in the film, the ghost monkey seems to be the Thai Communist Party that was active in the mountains and forests around the 1970s, while Jia Ai from Laos speaks Isha dialect, and Isha is also a place where the Thai Communist Party has a lot of activities. Pechabang (better than Uncle Bomi’s tamarind) is another place with a lot of activity close to Laos, where they also have a base…
Is the son's disappearance because he participated in the Thai Communist Party and was finally killed by a "powerful ruler", and Bomi himself had a lot of bed bugs and moths in his mourning hall after his death. Is it the retribution for killing too many pests as he himself said...I think Bed bugs refer to farm pests, two moths (meaning moths to flames) refer to the Thai Communist Party. Does Dad go into the forest and communicate with animals without killing the enemy also means he belongs to the Thai Communist Party, or is he just really communicating with animals... But I don't think Abang has deliberately approached these political metaphors and implicit criticisms. He still feels mysterious and detached to me. The camera shift does not rely on logic and timelines, but on a mysterious consciousness, meditation, psychics, dialogues between people and animals and plants, and the random transformation of past lives, futures and dreams. Many plots are really hard to capture if you don't look carefully, and his script is so good, I don't feel like there is anything superfluous.
(Adds after checking the material: “In the past, Apichatpong has used subtle tactics to question his country’s growing human rights abuses. While visual metaphors have been a powerful weapon in the past, he has recently felt limited by them.) "You end up with self-censorship or you rely too much on metaphors. When you feel comfortable with metaphors, which I don't think is right, it becomes like a formula and you don't have to think anymore. So in order to Change, I want to make a few years of feature films outside of Thailand." by Guide
It seems that Abang does have "deliberate" political metaphors and criticisms, but I don't know if my guess is correct...)
Also, I observed that he used the same set of filming locations and actors. Azhen is the lame heroine in the fantasy cemetery, Xiaohui should be a nurse who used to work in the hospital, and Bomi is a tropical disease with keng and them. The aunt who went to the canyon mentioned that she can recall her past life and clearly remember her two-hundred-year-old uncle, so these films should be a series that can be connected? It should have something to do with Abang's belief in reincarnation.
There are also some things that I haven't figured out, such as the episode of feeding the dog and then feeding Bomi, and finally Xiao Dong and Aunt Azhen go out to eat but the other Xiao Dong and Azhen still stay there to watch TV, and the princess's A paragraph, I didn't figure it out, I guess the princess should be the past life of Bomi's ex-wife Ahui. She took off her gold and silver jewelry in the water, gave up everything she had as a princess, and got "love", she should still be with a servant made love. What the servant saw was her reflected by the reflection in the water, so she said, "You don't love me, what you see is just an illusion, just because I'm a princess." There is also a shot of a small puddle in the cave, and the ghost monkey said " This is like the womb, where I was born."
Xiao Dong and Auntie watched TV together before Bomi went to the jungle, and the last scene was also watching TV together. I don't understand the connection between the two at the moment... Oh and the scene of Xiao Dong taking a bath, it refers to returning to vulgarity Is it... A rather shaky guess is that Ah Zhen didn't say something in the cave, "I can't see clearly because I closed my eyes, or because I was just dreaming." Dong was really dreaming, dreaming that Hui's ghost took away his uncle, and the last scene of watching TV while eating, might suggest a dream? Abang is really amazing... This is the first time I saw him making a movie like this. The rhythm of two hours is actually quite tight. There are quite a lot of things that really need to be carefully considered and understood, so I think the rhythm is quite fast after watching it Don't be slow... Wait and see and you may experience more, and then add more.
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