Ploy พลอย (2007): Thai movie review film
Ploy is an artsy Thai relationship film by Bpen-ake Ratana-ruang เป็นเอก รัตนาเรือง starring Lolita Bpun-yo-paat ลลิตา ปัญโญภาส (Dang), Pornwit Sarasin พรวิฒ์ สารสิน (Wit), Apinya Sagoon-jarern-sook อภิญญา สกุลเจริญสุข (Ploy), Tuck-sagorn Bpradup-poang-sa (Mhoo), Ananda Everingham อนันดา เอเวอร์ริ่งแฮม (bartender) and Pornthip Bpaa-bpa-nai พรทิพย์ ปาปะนัย (Maid).
When the two arrive to his room, Wit knocks on the door to which Dang opens, surprised to see what her husband has brought up. On sight of the young, strange, and sexy girl to which her husband has offered shelter to for the morning, seeds of jealousy began to germinate and soon sprout erupting into argument between Dang and Wit, revealing a few dust bugs in the relationship.
All the while, the movie jumps back and forth between the main plot and scenes of an intimate encounter between the hotel bar tender and a maid, which escalates inside a vacant hotel room. One may initially be left wandering when a dialogue would develop and somehow connect such love scenes to the main story, but so it is, these two were hired specifically for enacting a passionate sexual encounter for contrasting purposes�between the urgency to communicate with only bodies of one young couple and the staleness and tension of the main couple strung up webs of words and insecurity.
Back in the main hotel room, Dang confronts Wit about a female�s phone number, trust issues are exposed and we learn that Dang and Wit haven�t been sexually intimate for over a year. The argument leads to Dang leaving the room angry, where she heads to the hotel restaurant armed with min-bar shooters which she spikes in her coffee. She is soon acquainted with a guy at a nearby table and a dialogue develops. Meanwhile Ploy and Wit, alone in the room continue their own dialogue�
This is where the director attempts to create a sense of suspense, leaving the viewer guessing where the dialogues will lead the estranged couple, each with their own new acquaintances in vulnerable situations.
Reading somewhere that this was to be a great film�international film festival worthy, etc. etc., I can�t say my expectations were fully met. In this, I mean to say that it isn�t a film that is calling for me to watch over and over again, though there were a few things thrown in that call for me to give it a second viewing. Some aspects and concepts of the film seem to have thought provoking influence�mostly about relationships, commitment, passion, lust, fantasy, things taken for granted, and all the lolly-lahs of this sort.
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September 17th, 2007 at 2:00 am
Hmm, the review seems unfinished, perhaps because the film has no real ending either?
Wouldn’t the review need to fill in the blanks, so to speak? A much easier assignment than having to critique a finished work, imo, because you can just be the art critic telling where the director might have gone with it.
As a happily married-to-Thai Farang, always returning to LOS with the mia and, on rare occasion, without, I never know quite what to make of the wonderful Thai females (and Thai guys are mostly great fun in my experience also), of all ages I encounter on our visits and travels about the country. But, needless to say, I always look forward to returning.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:09 am
Yea, I suppose I could have got more in depth with the review to make it more complete.
However, I know that every time I read a ‘complete’ review of something including all plot points and scenes, it makes the film less appealing to watch.
Speaking of the ending, surely there must have been other endings filmed, and this particular one just didn’t do it for me… “She was kind of cute…” End…wtf?!
November 29th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
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November 29th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Ploy where does you family stay Bangkok or in USA ?
Erik
March 8th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
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January 9th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I booked into an apartment block called near Soi Buakhao called QD or SQ . There was someone outside constantly psycho-terrorising me. Some appeared to be motorcycle taxi people. Others were in the room above me which I believe they paid for by stealing 8000 baht from my room.
I visited Bangkok to find the place almost deserted and few of my friends remain there. A group of people were psycho-terrorising me there some near the Ekamai bus terminal there were members of The Royal Thai Police looking for them. i spoke briefly with The royal Thai Police who are obviously aware of the problem.
These people are linked into the network of the Scientology Terrorist Organisation that has aided and abetted in many crimes around the world including terrorist attacks.
My girlfriend has been intimidated by them and told to do things to cause me to become nervous. I have not seen her for several days.
In the Thai newspaper I discovered the photos of two people I have known both dead allegedly from committing suicide by drinking something with an insecticide solution added. I suspect it is murder by some Satanic Scientologists who have added a poison to their drink. They were from Bangkok a man and a woman both around 50 years of age.
My email is still being tampered with and I receive hardly any email ever apart from junk mail. Considering I know about 10,000 people around the world it is very very strange their emails never get to me.
I am convinced my former wife Netnapa Taenjamras was murdered by some people who claimed the life assurance covering her life for about 14 million baht.
That brings the total of people who were friends of mine and my family who have died under suspicious circumstances to about 30 people.
Erik Young – The United Nations Pattaya Thailand
Posted by: Erik Young UN Human Rights Ambassador | Jan 8, 2009 9:06:03 PM
January 15th, 2009 at 8:29 am
Erik Young, these thoughts are quite disturbing, albeit irrelevant to the Post…well, we’ll just save it here in case something happens to you and we can have evidence that your suspicions weren’t just paranoia…
January 21st, 2009 at 3:19 am
Please just delete the rant of this Erik Young. He is spamming all Web2.0 sites – Wikipedia, blog comments, forums and so on. He should get help by a psychologist for his mental problems, and not spend his time annoying everyone with his nonsense.