Uncle BOONMEE WHO CAN recall HIS past lives (ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ 2010): a matter of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes 2010, I had the pleasure of viewing Boonmee uncle who can remember his past lives 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, which was eliminated in conjunction with a terrific conversation Mavericks Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Dennis Lim of The Village Voice. This experience had the opportunity to ask a question "Joe".

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Michael Guillen: I am delighted with the story of the Princess and incorporated into the box to the uncle Boonmee catfish. It is a beautiful sequence. Is this a regional myth that you used for your film or a myth that you created in the region? Also, I am curious to know its specific placement in the story of the film?

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Scene arises in the film without explanation. It comes to Midway through the film as an odd chapter. We have abandoned the coil. My concept was that each reel of film is a tribute and the coil is a tribute to the royal costume dramas were always a prince, a Princess and an animal speaking; but not usually for sexual intercourse. [Laughter]. It was my extra bonus!

Uncle Boonmee as film talks about reincarnation, transformation and the human relationship with nature. For example, Ghost monkey do not feel as it is, why it transforms itself to escape. It is the same with the Princess. It feels not happy with his own body, with its appearance, so she decided that one of the ways to overcome his displeasure is to sacrifice to the water and the catfish, so that it can transform.

In fact, cut us the scene where she prepares to deliver a baby and is very worried if her baby will be a hybrid form of animal, fish-human. This will be the second part of The uncle Boonmee.

Bay Area audiences will have their chance to show the first tale of award-winning fabulist H 30 at the Rafael Film Center, where it is planned within the framework of the International West Coast Saturday 4 December, 19 Buddhist Film Festival 2010 demonstration. Uncle Boonmee will be introduced by Wes "Scoop" Nisker, an author San Franciscan, actor (KFOG), radio commentator and Buddhist meditation instructor well known for the slogan, "If you do like the news... outside and make some of your own" was used as the title for his book, 1994.

Cross-posted on the class of the evening.

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