From Thailand, the Cannes-winning, "Uncle Boonme," by serious auteur,

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Like Malick's, "The Tree of Life," Weerasethakul's film attempts to answer the "big questions" about life, but all similarities end there. Where Malick goes for pseudo-intellectual discourse a la Metaphysics 101, drunk graduate student variety, Weerasethakul offers no logical explanations or conjecture, preferring vague Buddhist thoughts and acceptance. Both films attempt to convey the experience of existence itself, of its meaning, through visual means, but Weerasethakul prefers natural wonders, i.e. a waterfall or a cave, to complex, extended light shows of trippy effects.
Don't approach the film expecting a logical story, a progression of tightly connected scenes. What you will get, if you have the patience to experience a novel vision, is a narrative of a man with a serious illness, living on an isolated farm where, as his condition worsens, he appears to be visited by the ghosts of his most beloved and departed family.
If you find Tarkovsky, Tarr, and other "slow" art house directors boring, save yourself the time and give this one a pass. We have found that, days later, we still discuss this film, what it meant, what each character may have meant.

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Topic - From Thailand, the Cannes-winning, "Uncle Boonme," by serious auteur, - tinear 07:33:32 04/14/12 (0)

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