Tropical Malady

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Tom F @RT55173143 04/19/2024 As an aspiring film snob I appreciate what they are going for, but it never fully clicked for me. See more Taylor L @RT77267842 01/05/2023 Just your average romance told via a hunter staring down a phantom tiger. Yet another slow-burn, minimalist, highly allegorical drama that has received global acclaim... that I didn't really connect to. There's a threshold where avant-garde crosses into pointless pretentiousness for me, and this film is clearly well past it, with its very sensory tale of love heavily infused with influences of the natural world. Very prominently mixes reality with the supernatural and dreamlike. The first part of this film is actually quite appealing, a homosexual love story that has sparing dialogue and uses inching emotional resonance, where characters develop familiarity based around just more or less existing in close proximity to one another. But the second part, where the relationship is completely altered to embrace a bit of legendary folklore, fell completely flat for me; at one point I might have sat in awe at the pieces I didn't understand and think about how it must have been my own shortcomings that left me in the dark, and applaud without comprehending. Now, I just accept that there are attributes of films that don't hit the mark for me, such as the slow-burning parallels between obsession and nature's yearning that Apichatpong Weerasethakul has crafted. (3/5) See more 07/23/2020 The movie is about losing your love and can't let it go. Your emptiness of lost love grows so big and strong, it is like a tiger, beautiful and destructive. See more 02/05/2017 The film is a fascinating enigma of the mind and the human heart that leaves one both euphoric and reflective, whether you choose to see its narrative as fractured or beautifully original. See more 07/23/2016 Unusual film by an unusual filmmaker is a bit rambling. See more 05/25/2015 Fascinating and oddly touching experimental film that follows the story of desire and love between two Thai men. One of these men seems eager and fully embrace his sexuality while the other fights this desire out of fear. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film then cleverly shits gears from realism to a culturally inspired twist into the surreal. It stands alone as one of the more interesting and potent International films to deal with the issue of societal pressure and dangers of being opening gay. See more Read all reviews

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