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Citizen Dog
Ma Nakorn [CITIZ] Thailand, 2004, 99 min, Color , 35mm Directed By: Wisit Sasanatieng PRODS: Rewat Vorarat, Aphiradee Iamphungporn, Kiatkamon Iamphungporn SCR: Wisit Sasanatieng CAM: Rewat Prelert EDS: Dusanee Puinongpho, Polarat Kitikunpairoj MUS: Amornbhong Methakunavudh CAST: Mahasmut Bunyaraksh, Sanftong Ket-u-tong, Sawatwong Palakawong na Ayuthaya, Nattha Wattanapaiboon, Pattareeya Sanittwate, Chuck Stephens |
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Was it the shock of winning our Dragons & Tigers Award for his debut feature Tears of the Black Tiger that caused Wisit Sasanatieng to take so long over his follow-up? Citizen Dog is based on a novel by his wife (it was published with his illustrations) and it’s as distinctive and original as Tears was. Village boy Pod, who has a certain naive charm but generally lives up to his name, moves to Bangkok and works in a variety of menial jobs. Maybe it’s the effect of the uniform, but when he’s working as an office security guard he gets the feeling that he could win the heart of Jin, a career woman too focused on her allergies and her obsession with a book in a strange language to even notice him. Undeterred, Pod starts driving a taxi so that he can chauffeur her around until the day she becomes an eco-warrior and quits her job to concentrate on ridding the world of plastic... Wisit uses CGI to transform present-day Thailand into a Brothers Grimm realm, complete with a highly developed dark side: this Bangkok is a city in which every man except Pod grows a tail, simply because it’s the fashion. A sardonic narration (voiced by Pen-ek Ratanaruang, director of Monrak Transistor and Last Life in the Universe) clinches the tone, somewhere between J.M. Barrie and Antonin Artaud. The spectacular visuals are beyond prodigious. Tears of the Black Tiger (00) |
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