The story about Fak, a young Thai man who leaves the monkhood to care for his ailing father. When he returns home, he finds his father has married a much younger woman. She is very beautiful, but she is also mentally unbalanced. Then the father dies, leaving Fak to care for his insane stepmother. Soon Fak's neighbors in this remote village are talking about him, saying he is sleeping with his stepmother. This rejection by the villagers sends Fak into a spiral of despair.
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As someone said, "beautifully depicts country life in Thailand." Wow! If that is what it is like, I'm glad I'm here. Corruption, deceit, hatred, rumors going wild. (Oh, wait... we've got that too.) Terrible. Even the Buddhist Monks turning there backs on one of their own. Scary that someone says this is what it's like. My wife said this is why Asians there will always be the third world. (She's Indonesian, so don't jump on my back.)I know it's a movie, but the cover looked like a cute, light-hearted movie. WRONG!Bongkoj Khongmalai was really HOT though.
Absolutely one of the best Thai movies I have ever seen! I stay in Thailand around 9 months a year and try to see all the Thai made movies I can. Mostly they are disappointing but 2 or 3 every year are special. This falls into the special category.This one stars Bongkoj "Dak" Khongmalai, one of the most beautiful Thai movie stars. Far and away her best performance to date. From my understanding though, all the nude scene utilized a stand-in, sorry to ruin the fantasy. :) Originally this was a television miniseries that ran sometime in the 80's. It's a morality play with a good message about not jumping to conclusions when you only have anecdotal evidence. This film will also show you a nice piece of rural Thai life, quite different for the ultra-modern hustle and bustle of Bangkok. No English subtitles, and probably will never be, but we can keep hoping. So start studying the Thai language!
very good film, opens with some great shots- but somewhere down the line, it loses its grip and falls in the old melodramatic genre.The storyline is great, the actor (Ai-fak) (I heard that it was his first film) puts up a fantastic performance. The heroine's performance is a bit inconsistent - she lacks continuity.I saw the movie at a film festival in Trivandrum, Kerala.I loved the movie because it portrays life in rural thailand beautifully. Though it deals with a subject bordering on incest (where ai-fak gets a wet dream about his stepmother), i would rate this movie as good. It could have been better, though. My 6 out of 10.
The story reflects an young victim of Thai society in the rural area. It based on a great novel by Chart Kobchiti and been produced many times in forms of TV series and movies. For Ai - Fak 2004, the leading actress impress the audience by her own great performance convincing that she was really being lunatic and catalyse the plot fast and increase tension to the whole story. Also it is the first movie for the actor and he doing the great job showing the suffering from what he didn't do but have to live with the hatre of the villagers. I felt this film should be brought out more characteristic of the male leading. In my opinion, it is another best film of Thailand.