Touches You

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This film won the 2010 Cannes Palme d'Or (best film award). Its incredible cinematography and excellent use of color combine to create an eerily beautiful atmosphere that is supremely transformative, but in terms of storytelling won't suit the palate of mainstream tastes.Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has a wonderful eye for human tragedy and a brilliant way of weaving Thai spirituality throughout the mundanity and at times absurdity of every day life. This film focuses on Uncle Boonmee. While he is dying he is beset by the ghosts of dead relatives; A terminally familiar Thai plot. With the scary appearance of Boonmee's dead son in the form of a red-eyed monkey spirit, its a movie that explores the scattered connection between the living and the dead, and the emotional resonance that bolsters it.Given only days to live, he demands that he be allowed to die at home where he becomes saturated by images of his past lives and their respective humor, tragedy and totality. If you liked this, I suggest you also like watching Tropical Malady another great film from my native country Thailand.

People who rate films as 'one star' annoy me. Few films are seldom entirely without merit and there is a scale of one to ten to reflect differing degrees of success and failure. But in this case no other rating will do. As cinema this film is a failure on every conceivable level: concept, plot, script, performances, direction, photography, lighting, editing, everything. There is just nothing to appreciate, and the viewer comes away with absolutely nothing. It is not enjoyable at any level.But then this is not really cinema: it is conceptual art. An installation. One for the chin-strokers then. If that is your thing, knock yourself out, but I would rather watch a Jim Carrey marathon than sit through this again (and I hate Jim Carrey with a passion).

I finished watching "Uncle Boonmee" a little less than an hour ago, and I'm still not really sure how to describe it. It certainly is a strange film, and I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I'm not sure if I should recommend it.Many people seem to really hate the film, and I kind of understand why. It is a really, really unconventional and slow film that many people who aren't used to this type of film will instantly call pretentious garbage. Is it pretentious garbage? Not through my eyes (although it does feel a little pretentious at times). To me, this is a very fascinating film, full of magic, mystery, and wonder.It doesn't have much of an actual story, it is kind of just about the last days of a man named Boonmee, and how he sort of prepares for his death. Add on top of that spirits, creatures known as the "monkey ghosts", an erotic scene with a catfish, an absurd and deadpan sense of humor, among much more bizarreness, and you have this film.Many people are upset that the film has gotten so much acclaim, and you can't really blame them since this film has a style that will not attract most audiences. Not even mainstream audiences, just audiences in general.If you know what you're getting into and like slower, weirder movies, then I think you should check it out, but be warned, it is very unconventional.

I read some bad reviews on that absolutely didn't hold any sense so I simply had to write one myself to clear up some things: THIS IS A METAFILM. Yes, it's a movie about movies. You can see it in the different style of cinema the scenes were shot, the multiple kinds of lighting, acting, etc. The dead son is an obvious reference to film which is losing its grounds to digital with the monkey suit as a symbol that refers to another movie, you probably know which one if you look closely to Boonmee's wife. They both stand for the change in technology used by film makers to render special effects, which is ALL compensated nowadays with CGI. The aunt is cripple, she comes from modern civilization which can be argued to cripple the human mind as well. Boonmee has a failing kidney and gets a stoma, even when the doctor said he'll be better he won't because technology simply cannot make man immortal. Man must learn to accept its fate but technology showers us with an illusion of immortality, as cleverly showed throughout the film. Nature will always remind us that we are animals and nothing more.The film hypnotizes you in its slow paced story, just like the cow it takes patience to tame the beast and bring it back home. If you're simply complaining about how slow a film goes, go to the bathroom and start checking your emails and phone calls I think you're not the right kind of person to watch these sorta films because you're obviously too busy with the material world and cannot comprehend the patience it takes to deepen your well of consciousness. Namaste and please enjoy this movie.