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As Kenji begins cleaning, Noi prepares to leave for Japan to further her career. Surreal elements creep into the film; Noi sees the house magically cleaning itself, while Kenji watches Noi transform into her temptress sister. The couple, in some ways polar opposites and in some ways mirror images, form a semi-romantic relationship. Meanwhile, the abusive and promiscuous ex-boyfriend Jon begins calling, angry that Noi thinks she can leave him. Three
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Kenji and Noi, both having lost a sibling, form a tentative friendship. The introspective Kenji asks the extroverted Noi if he can stay with her, unwilling to spend time with the two corpses in his apartment. Noi agrees, and invites the fussy Japanese man into her disastrously unkempt beachside home.
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One day in the library, Kenji spies on Nid, clad in a school girl's uniform. Soon after, he discovers that his brother has hidden a pistol inside a teddy bear. He is about to shoot himself when Yukio is slain by Takashi, who was apparently hired by Yukio's employer. (During the library scene where
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arrive. Jon is slain, and Kenji apparently escapes out the window. The movie then cuts back and forth between two scenes: one, in which Kenji has been arrested for some unspecified crime, and another in which he is re-united with Noi in Japan. The relationship between or canonicity of these two
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Takashi sees Kenji, who appears hopeful at his impending death, but suddenly Kenji shoots and kills the assassin. Not long after that, Kenji is about to jump off a bridge when Noi and Nid, driving past, have an argument. Noi throws Nid out of the car, then reconsiders. Nid, distracted by Kenji
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In the final segments, Kenji drives Noi to the airport, then decides he will join her. He returns to his apartment to gather his things and purposely knocks over a stack of books. While he is in the
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who wakes up to discover he is the final member of his species. The fictional lizard realizes that even being with his enemies, the other lizards who picked on him, was preferable to being alone.
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scenes is not made clear by the movie - particularly whether the reuniting scene is imagined or not.
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The soundtrack music played at the end of the movie called "Gravity", performed by the
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sitting on the railing of the bridge, is struck by another car and dies.
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is clearly featured. Tadanobu Asano was also the star of that film.)
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are also dispatched to find out what has happened to Takashi.
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as their vocabulary requires. The film stars Japanese actor
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Kenji first encounters Nid, a hanging poster for the
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Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Prabda Yoon
Wouter Barendrecht
Nonzee Nimibutr
Tadanobu Asano
Sinitta Boonyasak
Laila Boonyasak
Christopher Doyle
Hualampong Riddim
Five Star Production
Fortissimo Films
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Thailand
Japan
Netherlands
Thai
romanized
romantic
crime film
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
trilingual
Thai
Japanese
English
Tadanobu Asano
Sinitta Boonyasak
librarian
Japan Foundation
Bangkok

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