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Searching for deeper meaning
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/03/2015
» In the Indian comedy PK, an alien lands in Rajasthan, makes his way to New Delhi, and begins looking for god (gods? God, Gods?). Upon his arrival on our planet, the alien's teleport locket is stolen, and he's deprived of the means to contact his mother ship — like E.T., he can't phone home. So he wanders the vast stretch of India, and everywhere he goes people tell him to pin his hope on god ("only god can help you", or "pray to god and you'll be saved"). Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Sikhs, Jains — they tell him the same, so the inquisitive extraterrestrial sets out to find that unknown, invisible god-thing upon whom all of us entrust our hopes.
Slum dogs to the rescue
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/04/2012
» There are a few living things film-makers approach with unease: animals and kids. This week, Pantham Thongsang revels in both. The director, whose best known film was an adaptation of a gritty social realist novel Ai-Fuk (The Judgement, 2004), found himself in the spotlight when he made the whimsical yet winsome dog flick Ma-Mar Si Kha Krub in 2007, complete with a real pack of slum dogs facing eviction and children who help them find a new home. This week, Pantham will open the sequel of his hit film, in which the talking canines and their friends return with the hope of entertaining families during this school break.