The Terrorists (2011)★ 5.1/10
- Documentary
Directed by: Thunska Pansittivorakul
Written by: Thunska Pansittivorakul, Panu Trivej
A black cloak of forgetting, suppressing and covering has descended on the events that took place in Bangkok in spring 2010.
- Original title
- The Terrorists
- Storyline
- Two men are in a fishing boat talking. One feels more than one sees that the seawater around them is warm and smooth, teeming with brightly-colored fish. By night, the rubber plantation also comes across as enticing and full of secrets, until lurid reminders of the bloody massacre flash up. This film arose from of a state of shock - about the news, about the subsequent repression in the authoritarian kingdom but also about the debilitating passivity that followed the pro-democracy Red Shirt uprising. It is a radical personal assessment in 17 episodes. An angry protest in the form of a diary, where sexual resistance and erotic fantasies are juxtaposed with thoughtful rummaging through the director's family album, creating a confusing pamphlet. As a young boy in the 1970s, Thunska was already forced to flee Bangkok for the south with his mother.
- Rating
- 5.1 / 10 · 145
- Companies
- For... Shiw Ping Production, Jürgen Brüning Filmproduktion, GMfilms
- Release dates
- DE February 12, 2011
- PL July 24, 2011
- FR October 9, 2011
- IT November 25, 2011