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The cheers for justice we haven’t heard
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/04/2015
» On Tuesday, the country watched Thai heartthrob Mario Maurer taking the greatest risk of his young life.
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Going missing a fate darker than death
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 18/04/2015
» To disappear is worse than to die, because death is at least a form of closure, or at least an answer. To disappear is to be suspended in limbo, to enter the void, to become non-existent. With death, you could become a ghost. By disappearing, you become nothing.
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Don't blame Americans for bad acting
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 31/01/2015
» Fifty-two years after The Ugly American was released in cinemas, with Marlon Brando presiding over the US follies in Southeast Asia, some Thais are savouring the odd chance of relishing that phrase in real life.
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The fifty shades of censorship
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 14/02/2015
» So, in the past week, what has got through the censors? What, in art and in academia, has slipped past the iron curtain of our saintly, this-is-not-dictatorship authorities?
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‘Citizenfour’ rings eerily close to home
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/02/2015
» Come Oscar night tomorrow, Edward Snowden, still holed up in Moscow, won’t be joining the glitterati in Los Angeles though the film in which he is appears likely to snatch a golden doll. Unless there’s a major upset, Citizenfour should win Best Documentary, and the spectre of massive national surveillance, indiscriminate spying and the thorny scuffle to find balance between national security and the sanctity of human rights will, hopefully, steal some of the vacuous limelight that characterises the Oscars.
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When writing is a crime, we all risk exile
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/02/2015
» The risks of writing are many, especially when what you write pricks the hot-air balloon of sanctimony: You risk hatred, invective, threats, anonymous phone calls at midnight, mysterious motorcyclists outside your doors and bullets sprayed into your living room. You risk jail terms. But the worst, I imagine, is the risk of banishment, of voluntary exile that’s not actually voluntary. Maybe the worst risk of all hits you once you’ve left on a one-way ticket: the risk of nostalgia.
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We're in the news, and it's not all okay
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2015
» ‘So what’s happening in your country?”
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A lesson from Oscars democracy
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2015
» The United States is a model of modern democracy. Just look at the Oscars. After the tearful speeches and crumpled handkerchiefs, the pizzas, the history-making selfie, the crisp tuxes and plunging necklines, the self-congratulatory parties, the Slave who defies gravity, the umpteenth heartbreak of Leonardo DiCaprio and the star-making moment of Lupita Nyong’o — after the drum roll, it’s worth looking back to see how the model of modern democracy decides its "best" movies. Of course, by voting.
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Cannes report: 'A Touch of Sin' an early favourite
Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/01/2015
» Good year? Bad year? Average year? The question is common, extraneous, and yet on everyone’s lips after three days into the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
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The iron grip will tighten, so the stars say
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 27/12/2014
» Dear Leader, born March 21, 1954. A Pisces, our Dear Leader was born in the Year of the Snake, and zodiacally destined for valour, patriotism, decisiveness, songwriting talent, unconstitutional dignity, offbeat humour, banana-throwing antics (to the cheers of reporters) and occasional outbursts of temper when those same reporters don't ask him glorifying questions.
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