The Voice of Everything in the Foreground

Alysson 2022-03-23 09:03:06

"Uncle Bomi" is a film with a mix of realism and supernatural feeling, and has a mysterious visual and auditory metaphor. The sound artist Akritchalerm Kalayanmitr, who has collaborated with the director on many works, is the sound designer, and the Japanese sound artist Koichi Shimizu (Koichi Shimizu), who lives in Thailand. ) and others composed the music for the film. The complex natural sounds that make people sleepy or anxious have always played an important role in the construction of the film's "realism-supernatural" atmosphere, forming a whole in a foreground rather than background way, while echoing a certain The mystical atmosphere of "everything has a soul". The atmosphere reached its peak in the scene where a few people were walking in the cave. The rumbling low-frequency sounds seemed to provide a meditative atmosphere, and the next morning, the cicadas and birds chirped to nirvana. .


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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.