http://www.bioscopemagazine.com/smf/index.php?topic=586.0
--ขอบคุณคุณ ar มากๆค่ะสำหรับคำตอบ
--DVDs I hope will be available in Bangkok soon:
RICA (1972, Ko Nakahira)
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From amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/Rica-2-Lonely-Wanderer-2-Lonely/dp/B000TZJC6Y/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/002-2147436-9278405?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1190819618&sr=1-2
“Half-breed Rica was born under a very bad sign. Her mother was raped by American GIs and Rica was the result. Rica herself was raped by one of her mother's johns at an early age. Scarred for life from Day One, Rica was practically raised with a knife in her hand and hate in her heart for all men! Soon Rica is mixed up in a world of trouble, running with gangs, scrapping with hoodlums and excelling in the ways of the underworld. But no matter how many times she ends up in jail or gets manhandled by thugs, nothing can stand in the way of her ultimate goal: Revenge!”
You can read more about this film from
--Cinebeats
http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2007/08/15/rica-is-coming-pinky-violence-is-here/
--Scifijapan.com
http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2007/05/09/media-blasters-to-release-toho’s-rica-film-series/
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--I just learned from Zach Campbell’s blog about another film of Philippe Grandrieux (SOMBRE, LA VIE NOUVELLE). Grandrieux and Thierry Kuntzel directed a film called LA PEINTRE CUBISTE in early 1980’s. You can read more about it from
Zach Campbell’s blog
http://elusivelucidity.blogspot.com/2007/09/la-peinture-cubiste.html
Electronic Arts Intermix
http://eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=2851
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--I just learned from Peter Nellhaus’ blog that THE VICTIM (2006, Monthon Arayangkoon) has been released as a DVD in USA.
You can read Peter Nellhaus’ review of THE VICTIM in the link below:
http://www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com/archives/2007/09/the_victim.html#more
THE VICTIM
http://www.amazon.com/Victim-Monthon-Arayangkoon/dp/B000R7HY32/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2147436-9278405?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1190820374&sr=1-1
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--Personally, THE VICTIM is one of my most favorite Thai horror films of all time, and one of my most favorite feature Thai films of 2006. The reason why I love this film so much is just because a scene in this film—the scene when the ghost dances with the amateur actress--keeps on haunting my memory until this day. I mean this scene has so much seductive power over me that I enjoy thinking about it from time to time, replaying it in my head, and feeling great when I think about it.
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SPOILERS ALERT
DON’T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN “THE VICTIM” AND “THE HOUSE” (2007, Monthon Arayangkoon, A+++++)
--But don’t ask me to explain anything in THE VICTIM. I have seen this film only once and still feel confused about the second half of the film. If I don’t remember it wrongly, I guess THE VICTIM is about an obsessed fan (whom I’m not sure is a girl or a gay boy), who wants to become a famous actress, but that famous actress is playing in a film in the character of an ambitious amateur actress, who has to play murdered victims, one of which was a traditional Thai dancer, who might be a lesbian and obsessed with plastic surgery (which means she is also trying to “become another person” or not satisfied with herself). To put it another way, THE VICTIM is about the first person who strongly wants to become the second person, who plays the third person, who tries to imitate the fourth person, who is also obsessed with changing herself.
The first person, the third person, and the fourth person seem to be obsessed with “being another”. The second person gets possessed by the ghost of the first person, and the third person gets possessed by the ghost of the fourth person. The second person “performs” the third person, and the third person “performs” the fourth person. Hahaha. I don’t understand what I wrote. For those who can read Thai, you can read Filmsick’s review of THE VICTIM here.
http://www.onopen.com/2006/02/1087
Personally, I think THE VICTIM is also overly ambitious like the first and the third person. I guess it tries to convey the messages about celebrity obsession, obsession with being famous, obsession with improving one looks, or something like that. But what I love about this film is not its messages, but some scenes which are very haunting.
THE HOUSE, which is also directed by Monthon Arayangkoon, shares many things with THE VICTIM. In THE HOUSE, a female journalist is so obsessed with the murder of three women and the ghosts of them that she might be psychologically and mentally changed and “performs” as one of the ghosts. I’m not sure about the messages of THE HOUSE, but what I love the most about this film is not its messages, but some scenes in it which are very haunting.
Images from THE VICTIM
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1 comment:
I just want to add that “the second person” in THE VICTIM isn’t obsessed with being another person because she is a celebrity already. The second person is what the first person and the third person want to be.
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