Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
This is an masterpiece of cinema. One of the
greatest foreign films of all time, up there with Herzehog's Even Dwarfs Started
Small, Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour, and Haneke's Funny Games. A film so
incredible and so mesmerising, you'll want to talk about it and discuss it over
and over again. The plot? Boonmee is dying of kidney failure and goes to his
isolated farm, where he thinks his past souls and lives thrives. Along with him
he takes his sister-in-law Jen, and his nephew, Tong. During supper one night,
things get weird. His dead wife appears as a ghost and his son, Boonsong arrives
in form as a Monkey Ghost, with marvellously iconic glowing red eyes (He is
already a hipster icon). As his final days drift on, we get one of his past
lives as an ugly princess, who has sex with a catfish, shown to us in almost
comical form. Why is this film a masterpiece, you ask? As soon as the film
starts, I am completely and utterly hooked. The delicate nature of the film
makes you buy how strange many of the scenes are, and all the conversations are
utterly believable. Litterally every line is perfect, and every shot could be
hung up on a wall with great pride. Not hard to follow and strangely beautiful,
this is a film everyone, everywhere should see.10/10
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