After showing two of Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s films last year, 6ixtynin9 (เรื่องตลก 69) and Fun Bar Karaoke (ฝันบ้าคาราโอเกะ), Bangkok Screening Room is now showing a third, Ploy (พลอย). Ploy opened on Boxing day, and will be shown on 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 10th, 12, and 14th January. The screenings coincide with Cinema Journey 20 ปี ภาพยนตร์เป็นเอก (‘twenty years in the movies’), a retrospective celebrating Pen-ek’ss twenty-year career as a director. His other films include Nymph (นางไม้), Headshot (ฝนตกขึ้นฟ้า), and Paradoxocracy (ประชาธิป'ไทย).
I interviewed Pen-ek in 2014, and he discussed the censorship of Ploy (“the cinemas were crawling with police!”), though he also said that he regarded it as his best film: “It’s one of the rare films that I can actually achieve something closer to what I aimed at. Normally, you aim here [holds hand up high] but you achieve here [holds hand down low], but nobody knows. I think Ploy was actually the film that I liked the most.”
I interviewed Pen-ek in 2014, and he discussed the censorship of Ploy (“the cinemas were crawling with police!”), though he also said that he regarded it as his best film: “It’s one of the rare films that I can actually achieve something closer to what I aimed at. Normally, you aim here [holds hand up high] but you achieve here [holds hand down low], but nobody knows. I think Ploy was actually the film that I liked the most.”
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