Film Review: Citizen Dog
©2006 by Annabelle A. Udo
(published in "AsianWeek" - week of March 10-16, 2006)
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Thailand | 100 mins
Fri 3/17 | 7:00 PM | Castro Theatre
Sat 3/18 | 9:15 PM | Pacific Film Archive
If Taxi's Latka Gravas met Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie, "Citizen Dog" would be the love child of these two innocents. Directed by Thai filmmaker, Wisit Sasanatieng, the storyline of "Citizen Dog" is more than boy meets and chases girl, but rather a mushroom-like trip that turns Bangkok into a city of comical illusions. Hilarity and weirdness are the two ventricles of this colorful film and begins when a young man, Pod (Mahasamut Boonyarak), leaves the slow pace of the countryside to enter the hustle and bustle of Bangkok. In addition to taking on a variety of jobs including chopping off fish heads at a sardine factory he finds himself love-struck with Jin (Sangthong Ket-uthong), a maid with a compulsive disorder for order and an obsession with a book that contains a language she hopes to decipher one day just merely by staring into it. In his pursuit of Jin, Pod takes on a job as a taxi driver in order to drive her around but in the meantime must contend with the oddities of his passengers that go along with this chosen profession. An appropriate film for 2006, being the Year of the Dog, "Citizen Dog" offers vignettes of eccentric, light-hearted romance and digital technology that shows a lot of simple, yet, creative defiance as to how a world with a cup that runneth over with dreams can transcend reality.
(published in "AsianWeek" - week of March 10-16, 2006)
Chevron Gas Prices o' the Day (19th Avenue)
$2.45
$2.55
$2.65
Thailand | 100 mins
Fri 3/17 | 7:00 PM | Castro Theatre
Sat 3/18 | 9:15 PM | Pacific Film Archive
If Taxi's Latka Gravas met Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie, "Citizen Dog" would be the love child of these two innocents. Directed by Thai filmmaker, Wisit Sasanatieng, the storyline of "Citizen Dog" is more than boy meets and chases girl, but rather a mushroom-like trip that turns Bangkok into a city of comical illusions. Hilarity and weirdness are the two ventricles of this colorful film and begins when a young man, Pod (Mahasamut Boonyarak), leaves the slow pace of the countryside to enter the hustle and bustle of Bangkok. In addition to taking on a variety of jobs including chopping off fish heads at a sardine factory he finds himself love-struck with Jin (Sangthong Ket-uthong), a maid with a compulsive disorder for order and an obsession with a book that contains a language she hopes to decipher one day just merely by staring into it. In his pursuit of Jin, Pod takes on a job as a taxi driver in order to drive her around but in the meantime must contend with the oddities of his passengers that go along with this chosen profession. An appropriate film for 2006, being the Year of the Dog, "Citizen Dog" offers vignettes of eccentric, light-hearted romance and digital technology that shows a lot of simple, yet, creative defiance as to how a world with a cup that runneth over with dreams can transcend reality.
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