Headshot is, unfortunately, far better with ideas than with narrative.
Headshot(ฝนตกขึ้นฟ้า)
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Thailand, France · 2011
1h 45m
Director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Starring Nopachai Chaiyanam, Sirin Horwang, Chanokporn Sayoungkul, Apisit Opasaimlikit
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Straight-laced detective Tul is shot in the head while on an assignment. After spending three months in a coma, he wakes up to find that he suddenly sees everything upside down. With his worldview completely changed, he becomes an assassin for a group that aims to eliminate those that live above the law.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
Slant Magazine by Elise Nakhnikian
This "Buddhist film noir," as writer-director Pen-ek Ratanaruang calls it, is surprisingly slow-moving and soulful for a film full of double-crosses and cold-blooded killing.
The most "Naked City"–worthy aspect is the film's temperature, fixed precisely between cool posturing and broiling anomie. Its vision of contemporary Thailand is recognizable as another society undeserving of redemption, but worthy of poetry.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
A dreamy, elliptical neo-noir about a cop turned killer turned something else altogether.
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