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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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The Sound of Silence
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/06/2012
» Prince Gautama silently weeps, and the violin sighs. Gently, like a tiptoeing deer, the koto's murmuring melody comes in beneath the rhythmic carpet of the tabla drums.
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Never mind nipples, the law is an ass
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/09/2012
» The debate on free speech is heating up around the world, from the tumult of the anti-Islam video to the US boycott of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's UN speech and the tyranny of extremism laid bare in Salman Rushdie's newly published memoir.
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Nature versus nurture
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/12/2013
» Always gentle, always composed, the films of Hirokazu Kore-eda also register quiet devastation, often within the family. The stirring _ the earthquake, even _ usually happens beneath the surface of calm. Two years ago he gave us I Wish, a story about children of divorced parents, and before that, the sublime Still Walking, about a family wound that members prefer not to discuss. And, of course, Kore-eda's biggest hit in Bangkok was in 2003 with Nobody Knows, a painfully moving story of children left to fend for themselves after their mother walked out on them. That film packed Scala for more than a month.
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Novel ideas to feed a hungry dissenter
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 07/06/2014
» If nothing else, please permit metaphors. Please allow room for symbols, gestures, analogies, allusions, literature, metonymy, for one-, two-, three-, four and five-fingered salutes, because they’re defiant yet desperate, hopeful yet powerless. They ruffle, but they can’t and won’t change anything, not in the short run at least.
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Wings of desire
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/07/2014
» Hayao Miyazaki’s swansong animation The Wind Rises is a tale of heartbreak, aircraft and hijacked dreams. It’s a story of a young artist who watches in horror as his art, or what he believes to be nothing else but art, is exploited by a machine of terror that scorches the Earth and terrorises the world.
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Spare Nepal our black arts, crass barbs
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 02/05/2015
» The Kathmandu earthquakes shocked us all. Once again, we are reminded that while some disasters are unnatural, it's natural disasters that wake us from our slumber with such frightening impact. After every quake, after every aftershock, after watching television feeds and looking at pictures on Facebook, we're nudged to reflect on the insecurity of life, even the fragility of civilisation.
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Sensational silent cinema
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/06/2015
» Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks and Dr Caligari are among the highlights at the 2nd Silent Film Festival in Thailand. They will be joined by Alfred Hitchcock, Anna May Wong and an early Russian masterpiece at the movie event that runs from Wednesday to June 17 at Lido and Scala.
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Noble quest to ease misery is not IS support
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 26/11/2016
» In 2011 Naiem Wongkasorn crossed the border from Turkey into Syria. The civil war had already plunged the country into chaos and it was just before the Islamic State (IS) swept across the land on their evil rampage. Travelling with two Thai friends and some Turkish NGO workers, Naiem found himself in the town of Idlib in northeastern Syria. They were there to donate money raised from Thai donors to the refugee camps.
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Hoping to take the top prize East
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/05/2018
» Asian filmmakers have so far fielded a strong force at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, and when the Palme d'Or is decided on Saturday by the Cate Blanchett-led jury there's a real chance that the top prize might go to one of the Asian titles -- after a Turkish film in 2014 (Winter Sleep) and a Thai film back in 2010 (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives).
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