Mah nakorn (Citizen Dog)

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Mah nakorn (Citizen Dog)

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Mah nakorn (Citizen Dog)

Chuck Stephens, Mahasamut Boonyaruk, Raenkum Saninn, Saengthong Gate-Uthong, Sawatwong Palakawong Na Autthaya

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  read more... )king for his lost finger at various supermarkets. The incident convinces him to change his job, and Pod becomes a security guard at a large company. There he meets Jin, a lanky maid who carries a mysterious white book around even though she cannot read a single word written in it. The aimless Pod has a crush on Jin, a dreamy girl who dreams that one day she'll be able to decipher the meaning of the white book. In this bright, colour-splashed world of director Wisit Sasanatieng, Bangkokians can grow tails and a dead grandmother can come back as a chatty gecko to deliver a few life lessons to her grandson. It's a world where innocence is so precious and yet impossible to preserve. The unusual love story between Pod and Jin is set against the playfully ironic portrait of Bangkok, the city that offers false dreams and real disillusionment.

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  • DrBenway
    November 4, 2008
    DrBenway
    A surreal and comical love story about Bangkok's less significant people. Citizen Dog depicts their unending search of happiness in a rapidly changing environment; a world overflowing with dreams but void of love and understanding.

    You never know what you will see on the scree...( read more)n next, but it will almost certainly be unique, surprising and vividly colourful. Very rewarding film that's non-stop and highly enjoyable.
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  • DragonEyeMorrison
    May 21, 2007
    DragonEyeMorrison
    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 ...( read more)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.
  • threefolddado
    July 16, 2008
    threefolddado
    Stylishly directed and original romantic comedy. A real treat.
  • cacutshaw
    April 11, 2008
    cacutshaw
    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 d...( read more)ose 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.
  • marylanenalyram
    July 28, 2009
    marylanenalyram
    Every shot = picture = can't believe
    But we can believe in white books?
    super must love dog tails
    With probably the best surprise narrator of all time/world/plastic
    Filled with gray matter and blood filters
    THIS MOVE IS NOT PLASTIC
    and Goodbye
  • fullofsakuraflowers
    February 8, 2009
    fullofsakuraflowers
    pure crazyness yeaaaaaah <3 from the colors to the dialogues - everything made me laught LOUD: his chopped finger, her stubborness to read the book, the bottles thing, the soap opera for which she cried, the women who works with them (uglyness ahah), his HOUSE (so cool *_*) and t...( read more)he dogs outside his house. oh and thumbs up for everyone wearing that acquamarine uniform! (dogs included!)
  • starkafka
    November 6, 2008
    starkafka
    the 'grandmother' scares me.. wonder why heh heh...

    a good movie.. i'm too lazy to write the review.. i think i might need to watch it again..
  • zorgsembetty
    September 29, 2008
    zorgsembetty
    Filme 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.
  • felaiuki
    September 15, 2008
    felaiuki
    Its Amelie Poulain similar & crazier. But the end is too hollywood...
  • muahahahaha89
    September 10, 2008
    muahahahaha89
    This 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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