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Pod is a man without a dream. He's a country bumpkin who comes to work at a tinned sardine factory in Bangkok. One day, Pod chops off his finger and packs it in the can, prompting him to go around loo...( read more 
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MCT:September 29, 2008Filme que agrada os fãs de Amelie Poulain e Tin Burton. Não é o meu caso. Mesmo assim, não é um filme de todo ruim. Apesar do excesso de fantasia e falta de sangue no dedo, tem uma bela fotografia e cenas fofinhas (que podem ser legais), como a cena da ninhada de cachorrinhos.
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MCT:September 10, 2008This movie is highly recommended!!! This movie is filled with laughter but at the same time kept people thinking and reflecting about their own lives. I am so glad that I have caught such a great inspiring movie!!!!
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MCT:June 29, 2008Citizen Dog is a Thai surreal romantic comedy with great visual style and use of sound and music. I really love this director's use of oddly bright pastel colors in both this movie and his previous film, Tears of the Black Tiger.
On the positive side movie is very visually creative and appealing. The music is also enjoyable and suits the movie's odd style wonderfully. The opening theme song has the whole city of Bangkok singing along and is simply great; I loved it and watched that part several times. There were so many unusual and interesting pieces of the movie that I enjoyed (like Thongchai the talking teddy bear and the mountain of bottles) that I ended up liking the film quite a bit even though the core story itself was rather cliché.
Still, the main theme of having dreams and finding happiness certainly isn't hard to empathize with, and if you're in the mood for something out of the ordinary it's not hard to recommend this film. -
MCT:May 10, 2008Having read the available synopsis for Citizen Dog (2004), I walked into the cinema expecting to see some pretty weird stuff like people walking around with tails. What was presented were scenes, grotesque or fantastical, reminiscent of Dali but with exuberant saturated colours.
"It's like an experimental art project," says the director (Wasit Sasanatieng) who graduated from the Faculty of Decorative Arts at Silpakorn University. [source: The Nation]
For a simple story of a boy seeking romance, the movie is over-embellished with quirky snapshots of Asian idiosyncracies taken to metaphorical extremes. It skims lightly over a cesspool of urban troubles and myths - reincarnation, pollution, environmentalism, idealism and dreams, over-dependence on mobile technology, materialism, rural-urban migration, isolation and loneliness, de-personalisation, illiteracy and of course love - while re-iterating its over-arching mantra of being content and not be overly-persistent in seeking desires that are a lost cause. Along the way, meet and accept other urban individuals as they are no matter how surreal, or contradicatory their opinions/actions are to yours. It is this open-heartedness of Pod, the protagonist, that pushes the story along to its happy ending for all the friends he made in Bangkok. In so doing, it seems the movie is also coming to terms with and accepts Bangkok's many flaws. Yes, underneath all the mambo-jumbo Citizen Dog is an un-abashed celebration of Bangkok, its culture, its little people and its icons (read sponsor Singha beer).
To achieve the movie's rhetoric, Wasit pulled no stops when it comes to employing different cinematic techniques - "computer graphics, special lenses and camera angles, puppetry, innovative props and colour dying, his signature technique." - making it a visual fest.
In the end, Citizen Dog, with its vivid retro colour, MTV music sequences and fantastical visual imagery, is a nostalgic reminder of the days when I was still doing visual communication lessons in school. You may or may not agree with the director's message in the movie. But it doesn't matter. We all have our own tails to bear.
The movie may seem a bit too long for its own good and slightly cheesy at times, but it is still a refreshing change from all the slick Hollywood blockbusters in cinemas. -
MCT:April 11, 2008
A masterpiece. I generally avoid any type of love story, finding them to be trite, sappy or plain boring. This isn't any of those things for a second. A genuinely nice story with nice characters who try and do nice things. It's surreal moments and side stories add a massive dose of enjoyment to this already fantastic film. The colours are magnificent and the direction is superb. Reminded my wife and I a lot of Happiness or the Katakuris, about people simply forgetting to be happy when it's the obvious choice. Amazing.
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MCT:January 29, 2008
Best Thai movie ever!!!
Absolutely MASTERPIECE
high imagination, colorful, and alot of black humour....
i will watch this movie over and over again....
Every elements are simply perfect!!!
Highly recommended!!!
I like the story so much....wonderful, romantic, and absoultely brilliant!!! -
MCT:December 21, 2007
this film was really interesting! The parts i like the most were the parts that had his grandma in them and also thongchai the bear! lol.. It is sometimes a little draggy but other than that i really enjoyed watching this.. love the song too! :D
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MCT:November 1, 2007
I like Citizen Dog so much. It likes "Big Fish" of Jim Burton with high imagination and very good plot.
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MCT:July 12, 2007
Gorgeous Thai surrealistic film!!!!
What a pity that I didn't see it in theatre!!!!!
Citizen Dog reflects almost every part of this society, people, politics, realist, capitalist, etc.
Otherwise, even you cannot understand whole things in this Thai stuff. You'll still love it, love its style, its humour, its dialogue, almost everything!!
I adore you!!! Citizen Dog -
MCT:May 21, 2007
Screw Amelie, Garden State, Wes Anderson movies and all those sorry attempts at making fantasy-love-comedies. Citizen Dog manages to give a balance between bizarre situations and odd characters whitout getting too sugary or too idiotic. Sure, there is plenty of the usual cliches of these types of movies: main characters too-good to be true, and that have "strange behaviours" instead of actual human behaviour. And yet, the film is so honest in it's intentions, and not full of pretentions like other films of the like, that it makes it all work.
Also, unlike Amelie and the other bunch, Citizen Dog does not infuse it's enviroment and characters with such a simplistic and one-side view that the world is a big fluffy cloud of joy where nothing bad happens. The Bangkok of "CD" is not the most welcoming place for the two main leads. Not to mention: how many smoking-drinking talking bears did Amelie had?
Like Tears of the Black Tiger, "Dog" is another visual exercise, chok-full of a color composition that almost seems to come out of the screen. It might be a "style" over substance flick, but like "Tears" this is a style that hardly gets done every day.
The basic core of the story is simple, we all want to be part of something that can makes us feel special, it can be loving another person, or joining some type of movement, as long as it makes us feel something. Yet we usually search in the wrong places, and sometimes all the answers are infront of us. Yes, it might sound as a very simplistic logic, but the film gives it a sense, and makes the actions of the characters, as silly as they may look, have an actual reason to be. And not just as a mere excuse for silly and idiotic situations. Heck, there is even a sort of social context to the whole thing, Pod, the main character, is told by his grandma that once he gets a job in Bangkok he will grow a tail, he will become a "dog" in other words.
The final act does feel like it stretches a big longer than necessary, but still, Citizen Dog is a fun and very creative film, one that makes you feel good without having to kill brain cells in the process.
So, score one more for director Wisit Sasanatieng, with this and Tears of the Black Tiger the man is already in my list of directors to keep an eye on. -
MCT:May 18, 2007
OMG! What a wonderfull movie!
The basic core of the story is simple, we all want to be part of something that can makes us feel special, it can be loving another person, or joining some type of movement, as long as it makes us feel something. Yet we usually search in the wrong places, and sometimes all the answers are infront of us -
MCT:March 4, 2007
this one is exactly like amelie...same impossibly sweet lead character, though this time it's a guy...and a load of zany supporting characters that he runs into. The thing I liked about it was it's imagination...the imagery, the mountain of bottles, humping on the bus, the talking teddy bear...see, this is what happens when u support ur film industry, which is what thailand does and why they cna produce films like this, and it's why HK films are the most overated pieces of shit...apparently they make them all within about 3 months from script to post production...i guess it makes sense when u think about it..Andy Lau releases films every 3 months, doesn't he? anyway this film is really good..my only criticism is that it runs out of steam a bit cos it goes from one crazy character to the next, which makes it a little episodic...and it's basicaly a love story so u know how its gonna turn out in the end...the two lovers are a little too sweet and passive, and psychologically simplistic...but apart from that it's a film of visual ideas...
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