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'Boss' strides atop pyramid of injustice
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/04/2017
» The boss walks free. The boss is the boss. The boss dines in France and snowboards in Japan. The boss rules the road and tramples the law. In the pyramid of privilege, the boss stays on top. In the food chain of injustice, the boss reminds us again, and again and again, who the boss is.
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Getting our drama kicks, vicariously
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/12/2016
» We're hooked on every detail and development, like a prime-time series that teases with clues and cliffhangers. I mean the Chiang Mai pub brawl case, which is really getting on my nerves.
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Losing faith in the laws of the land
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 18/06/2016
» Lawlessness is the new law. What's that term they're now using? "The new normal" -- right, say it even when there's nothing new and everything abnormal. But it's something more primitive that's making a screaming comeback.
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Punishment that doesn't fit the crime
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 07/05/2016
» There's crime and there's punishment. In Dostoevsky's novel, crime is punishment. In Thailand, halted at the crossroads of history, the relationship between the two is confusing, sometimes absurd, and mostly impenetrable.
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If Somsak's crazy, why get so mad?
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 15/02/2014
» From heckling to death threats, from trolling to live bullets. From malignant distribution of the enemy’s home address and licence plate number, to good old calls for his head, both real and metaphorical. Burn the witch at the stake: the “punishment” for thoughtcrime in the land of crooked smiles is severe.
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Road deaths are classless, the law is not
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/09/2012
» Rich kids and fast cars, put together, often inspire amazement, jealousy and maybe fear. One night last week, I was in Bang Lamphu when a convertible BMW swerved round and snuggled into a no-parking spot (the car looked even more expensive when it was in the no-parking spot). Two boys came out, looking pleased, and we looked at them looking pleased.
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Cars, crazy cars
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/05/2012
» He's called Monsieur Oscar, and the name is a cinematic prophecy. He's played by Denis Lavant, the French actor, that compact ball of intense energy who reincarnates from the back of a gigantic limo into a bum, a cybermonster, an assassin, a dying uncle, and other roles in the shades borrowed from other movies and our collective memory of them. In a jaded Cannes Competition this year, Leos Carax's Holy Motors arrived on Wednesday like a humming spaceship, bizarre and irreverent, cheeky and disturbing. Come the awards night on Sunday, pundits are now betting that Carax's first feature film in 13 years will emerge with some wins.
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A portrait of Myanmar
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/02/2012
» Last month at the British Council in Yangon, Robert H. Lieberman showed his 88-minute documentary to a packed auditorium of over 100 viewers. The film is called They Call It Myanmar, and the premiere was a public screening with artists, film-makers, NGO workers and ordinary citizens attending to watch their own country from the viewfinder of a foreign film-maker. Lieberman had invited Aung San Suu Kyi, who also appeared in the film as one of the interviewees, but she couldn't make it.
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Deserving of top honours
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/01/2012
» On screen and in headlines, Iran the provocateur du jour, is causing a stir. As Israel fumes, as Bibi Netanyahu ponders a pre-emptive strike, as the US watches with hawk-eyed severity over Teheran's nuclear ambition, and as an alleged Iran-backed Hezbollah rabble-rouser was arrested in Bangkok and a spectacular arsenal of bomb materials uncovered - as the quivers in Hormuz Strait are felt throughout Earth, an Iranian film cruised past contenders to win the Golden Globe. Worldwide punters now believe A Separation will become the first Iranian title to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Never mind the sanctions, an Iran-scripted drama has had Hollywood (and Washington) in thrall. So catch it now: A Separation is showing on one screen in Bangkok, at House RCA (I hope it'll stay there for a few more weeks.) It won't give you a crash course on the latest nuclear grumble; the politics of the film is smaller in scope yet larger in humanity, for it concerns class, marriage, religiosity, and the heart-aching struggle to uphold justice in the court of God and by the rule of law. At the centre, the film is about a separation of a couple, called Nader and Simin, but at heart this is a complex drama of moral quandaries that inflict bourgeoise Teheranians and speak of other kinds of seperation, physical and spiritual, visible and clandestine, in a society heaving with pride, prejudice and doubt. In short, it's closer to home than the belligerent rhetoric of the nuclear war.
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