Mysterious Object at Noon
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- Movie: Mysterious Object at Noon
- Thai: อกฟ้าในมือมาร (Dokfa nai meuman)
- Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Writer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Producer: Gridthiya Gaweewong, Mingmongkol Sonakul
- Cinematography: Prasong Klinborrom
- Release Date: 2000
- Runtime: 85 min.
- Language: Thai
- Country: Thailand
Plot
Apichatpong Weerasethakul shakes up the boundaries between documentary and fiction in this hypnotic and deeply affecting film. Following the idea of the surrealist “exquisite corpse,” Weerasethakul journeys all over Thailand asking ordinary people (a fishmonger, a boxer, a posse of schoolchildren, and so on) to contribute episodes to a chain story that begins with a mysterious object rolling from underneath a teacher’s skirt, and unfolds into an increasingly bizarre tale of aliens, impostors, demons and plane crashes. In a striking demonstration of cinema as waking dream, the unfinished story is brought immediately to life in a surprisingly delicate fictional enactment of the rapidly morphing events. The exquisite pleasure of this film derives from the subtlety and wit with which it fragments and reassembles the narrative threads, as well as the gritty b&w photography that turns the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Cast
- Duangjai Hiransri
- Kongkeirt Komsiri
- Saisiri Xoomsai
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