Tropical Malady Reviews

Garret 2022-04-19 09:02:59

There is only one word difference between mystery and magic stick

When a film uses unpredictable words such as occultism as a banner, my heart is often very frightened. I am afraid that the director's intense stream of consciousness cannot resonate with me, and it will only make me feel drowsy and...

Sarina 2022-04-19 09:02:59

As soon as I saw the title of the Chinese translation, I was reminded of the scene of tropical diseases described in Zweig's novel "Malay Madman", but after watching the movie, I found that it was actually not the same thing. The most impressive thing is the jungle scene that occupies almost half...

Ervin 2022-04-19 09:02:59

The director is more like a childlike writer. The whole work is like a literary work with delicate description, lacking the rhythm and tension that a movie should have.     A two-stage structure, with contrasting figures in each structure, finally reflects the big theme: the duality of human...

Malvina 2022-04-19 09:02:59

Beautiful picture, good sound. I feel that the first half is a part of the life, communication, and experience of the brighter and lighter person; the second half is something that cannot be detected in the depths of the spiritual desire of the more subdued, darker person. Although I was at a loss...

Ernestina 2022-03-19 09:01:10

One note: I just finished reading the memoir "Life Outside the Coconut Shell" by Benedict Anderson, a well-known scholar of Southeast Asian studies, and accidentally discovered that he had written a film review for "Tropical Diseases" and had a personal relationship with director Apichatpong. The...

Darrion 2022-03-18 09:01:09

1. The affinity between Apichatpong and Abbas (here refers specifically to the comparison with Abbas’s documentary)

a) Reuse of information

Apichatpong's short film "Letter to Uncle Boonmee" begins with two very similar narratives. These two passages are spoken by different voices. In the logic of...

Donna 2022-03-18 09:01:09

Apichatpong Weerasethakul has mentioned in interviews that he is a rebel and is also very obsessed with contrasts. Religion says not to compare, but to understand yourself. He believes that if you want to understand yourself, then you need to compare. "Tropical Diseases" is a good...

Terry 2022-03-17 09:01:09

Try to understand Apichatpong's Tropical Diseases with two stories.

One with a fatalistic color, the soldier encountered a tiger with the ability to transform into a human form, and his soul was swallowed like that magnificent myth. Wake up and forget everything in this life, concentrate on loving...

Lambert 2022-03-16 09:01:08

The film as a whole is unique in breaking the traditional narrative structure—two seemingly unrelated chapters that are fused together in imagery. Not only that, but the director, intentionally or unintentionally, continues to weaken the plot links within specific chapters. The whole film is like a...

Chloe 2022-03-14 14:12:30

According to the subjective idealistic dichotomy, the first half of the film is the appearance (phenomenon), and the second half is the noumenon (will). To be precise, the second half is a concrete person from the phenomenal world, stripped of social relations, and in this uninhabited tropical...