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Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) [ReUp]

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Date: 18 Mar 2015 17:09:00
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) [ReUp]

Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
DVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:24:09 | 4,10 Gb
Audio: Thai AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps | Subs: English hardcoded
Genre: Art-house, Drama, Mystery

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Stars: Djuangjai Hirunsri, Kongkiat Khomsiri, Saisiri Xoomsai

This film is an experimental mix of documentary and fiction. The film crew travels from the Thai countryside to Bangkok, asking the people they encounter along the way to continue a story about a handicapped boy and his teacher.

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One of those oddball films that's neither fish nor fowl. It's an experimental grainy black-and-white low-budget Thai film, shot in 16-millimeter and then blown up to 35-millimeter, that's part roadside nonfiction documentary and part fiction, that exploits form over matter. By using interviews of various disenfranchised lower-class nonprofessional actors of all ages in the hinterlands, the filmmaker tries to keep a story going through one's impromptu imagination. Its appeal might mainly be to those who have sickened of the usual formulaic mainstream fare and are willing to reach out for any port in a storm.

Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) [ReUp]

It opens inside a car going south of Bangkok; the radio is airing a sappy commercial for its soap opera program, that has the announcer state: "The more he tries to get her back, the more complicated the story becomes." The driver eventually stops in the Bangkok outskirts to chat with a middle-aged lady vegetable vendor hawking her stuff from the back of her pick-up truck. She tells the driver a story about her father that is primed to be a real tearjerker. Her dad and mom visited their uncle and aunt in the country when she was an infant, and because dad didn't like the way they cooked their rice here he wanted to split but was short of bus fare to get home. His uncle suggested if he sold him his infant daughter, he would cough up the money. To her surprise, her father accepted and she never saw her folks again. After finishing her tale of woe, the off-camera director asks: ''Now, do you have any other stories to tell us? It can be real or fiction.'' She then lays on him a story that might be of folklore origin about a caring tutor named Dogfahr whose sole student is a crippled boy who leads a sheltered life.

Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) [ReUp]

With this promising start of a story, the director travels the countryside building on it through random interviews with the local villagers. It gets its title when a passerby gives the story a sci-fi twist by adding an alien into the mix. From thereon it spins out of control with tales from among others a community theatrical ensemble, kickboxers and two female teenage deaf-mutes telling their story in sign language; it ends in the hands of some giddy and boisterous schoolchildren, who add on that Dogfahr was eaten by a witch-tiger and that the bad alien child battled the good alien child who possessed a magic sword; in the end the good alien wins and the witch-tiger retreats into the woods. The story might have ended here but the camera keeps rolling for another ten minutes, as it shows some kids messing around in the schoolyard and by a river bank.

Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) [ReUp]

Though entertaining, unusual and intriguing, it becomes hard pressed to come up with any significant meaning except that it's possibly autobiographical or mired in symbolic traditional folklore. Indie Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul ("Tropical Malady") tells us in the liner notes he used the "Surrealist storytelling technique known as Exquisite Corpse, wherein a variety of writers would contribute to an ongoing story one sentence at a time, largely oblivious to what came before." In any case, it's wonderfully different from any American film and might appeal to those who like mysteries–even ones where it only seems a dog is trying to outrun a tin can (its mysterious object).
Dennis Schwartz: "Ozus' World Movie Reviews"
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) [ReUp]

Mysterious object at Noon is a fascinating film that negotiates the thin line between documentary and fiction. As filmmaker Apitchatpong employs the surrealist technique of storytelling in the moving image, he follows the stories told from the mouths and hands of school children, rural villagers, performance troupes, deaf students, etc. As the story pieces together bit by bit, what emerged was a rather nonsensical and absurd story of a crippled boy fighting with aliens born out of a mysterious object that fell out of his teacher. Yet as weird as it may be, it reveals underlying archetypes that comes through to be what is inherently true and real about the Thai culture – through the fascinating imagination of these random storytellers.

Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) [ReUp]

As a someone who had seen and liked the later works of Apitchatpong, such as “Blissfully yours”, “Tropical Malady” and “Syndromes and a Century” which were all masterpieces in contemporary cinema, I can truly see how certain thematics and stylistic qualities are being developed and carried through, stemming from this first feature film. The highly grainy film (which I suspect to be 16mm reversal film stock), also gave the movie a characteristic feel and look to it, which as rustic as it may be, only sought to gave a timeless, nostalgic pre-digital quality that reminds me of the century gone by.
Lakeij
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) [ReUp]

This masterpiece from new Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul blends fiction and non-fiction into a new form of cinema previously forged by Hou Hsiao-hsien and Abbas Kiarostami. For his low-budget, 85-minute, black-and-white film, Weerasethakul traveled all over Thailand, inviting people to continue the storyline he has begun about a teacher, her student, and a mysterious boy who has suddenly appeared and has magic powers. Whenever eager storytellers are not crowded in the frame tossing out ideas faster than any Hollywood pitch meeting, Weerasethakul's camera simply follows the day-to-day events of the region – from fishmongers selling their wares to children playing with a dog. It's one of the first releases by Plexifilm, a company to watch, and one of the first must-have DVDs of 2003.
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Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) [ReUp]

Special Features:
- Interview with Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (08:18) (in English)

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