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Bring your daughter to the slaughter
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 23/03/2012
» A big part of Jennifer Lawrence's appeal is how the actress, 21, crosses between that slippery threshold that borders a girl and a woman. Not in the coquettish way Audrey Hepburn sometimes did, but with an earthly, gutsy attitude of an autodidactic prize fighter _ without the dragon tattoo though. In a tracksuit, a bow and arrows slung back, as she often appears in The Hunger Games, Lawrence is an underaged hunter now on the run from a pack of bloodhound predators, and we feel the nervousness of a girl thrust into the centre of an adult game. And yet, there are moments when she glows with ripe womanhood. Not just in her figure, but her conviction and grit. Sorry to the droves of Twilight fans, but Lawrence's character, Katniss Everdeen, makes the vampire-lusting Bella look like a case of arrested development.
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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.
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Triumph and the Trojan Horse
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/05/2012
» Snap-happy revellers never learn the lesson. Photographic records of sin aren't supposed to be worse than sin itself, but sometimes they are close. The latest incident, quickly dubbed the army scandal, involved a photo showing a group of soldiers in an act that looks like an orgy with a woman. A gang rape, some charged. Mutual consent, others defended. Punishment, however, has been rightly promised by the Army Chief against the participants. To observers, the moral and philosophical debates entail: is such punishment is meted out against the orgy, or against taking pictures of the orgy and posting them online?
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Don't go looking for Yourgods
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/06/2012
» As usual, no one refers to aliens as aliens in alien movies. In Ridley Scott's Prometheus, aliens are "engineers", "makers", "it", "God" (the Christian one), "foreign bodies" and aptly, "weapon of mass destruction".
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Encouraging bibliophilia, by any device
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/07/2012
» The jokes, mostly mean, have already been rampant. Bangkok is designated by Unesco as the World Book Capital for next year. The chorus has already sung: REALLY? But as professional purveyors of text, we're gladdened, emboldened, optimistic, dancing half-naked, the dream of selling more copies of this glorious newspaper and perhaps a bigger bonus already swimming in our head. The smell of success is sweetest when it's mixed with ink, or maybe, e-ink.
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Time capsule unlocked
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/07/2012
» Before photographs of people outnumbered the entire population of the world, having one's image captured on film was a privilege, a real cause for pride.
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Knight of the living dead
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/07/2012
» It's a fate that can't be helped, but it must be said that we all seem to miss the Joker. Or to be precise, we miss Heath Ledger and his wormy nihilism.
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Sex by the book
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/08/2012
» Juliette Binoche is fashionably frazzled, her hair unkempt, her fingers tapping the keyboard and her eyes tired by journalistic dedication.
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Night hasn't yet fallen
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/08/2012
» Ying Liang first heard he couldn't go home when he called his mother in China. He was then in South Korea, and soon the news was confirmed by the police: should he set foot back in Shanghai, where his family lives, the film-maker will face arrest.
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Unabashed mayhem
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/08/2012
» As hype about the Asean economic link-up grows frenetic _ even though nobody is quite sure what that pipe dream might entail _ let's savour the coughed-up blood, the fevered sweat and the rabid, slaughterhouse smell of a film from a fellow Asean member state.
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