Satanee See Pak / Four Stations (2012)
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 436 | AVC @ 2000 Kbps | 103 min | 1.59 Gb
Audio: Thai AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (HardCoded)
Genre: Drama | Thailand
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 436 | AVC @ 2000 Kbps | 103 min | 1.59 Gb
Audio: Thai AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (HardCoded)
Genre: Drama | Thailand
"Four Stations" covers the lives of the poor in 4 different regions of Thailand, all of whom are connected by the same railroad. In the north, an old monk named Tu Pu attempts to teach the younger monks, but it doesn't turn out how he expects. The locals begin to lose their faith. In the central area, a Myanmar laborer quits his job to help his wife who is about to be deported. His wife can't pay off her debts. In the northeast area, Kamkon is an orphan. She tries her best to become recognized as a family member on her husband's side. In the southern area, neighbors Suan and Klaew once were good friends, but now they are sworn enemies.
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Director: Boonsong Nakphoo
Writer: Boonsong Nakphoo
Actors: Yanisa Arjpru, Piya Chaikaewkhao, Prasi Poonyamano, Samarnmit Promwong
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 103 min
Four Stations
Four short stories, four regions, one movie. Boonsong Nakphoo subscribes to the social-realist school of cinema that looks at the plight of small, ordinary, perpetually underprivileged people, and his new film Satanee See Pak (Four Stations) is exactly that _ times four.
Making such a commercially unattractive movie is a trial, but to bring the finished film to the audience is another, perhaps even more tiring.
Four Stations has been showing at Lido Theatre in Siam Square for five days _ its final screening is this evening at 6.30pm. Boonsong was able to make the film, which strings together four short stories by four master writers, with the support of the Thai Khem Kang fund given out by the Ministry of Culture two years ago. To give his movie a chance to reach the viewers, the director decided to rent out one slot a day from Lido, at the cost of 5,000 baht per day.
(At Lido, if a film comes in a 35mm format, the cinema may agree to show it and the revenue from the ticket sales is divided between the theatre and the film-maker; but if a film arrives in a digital format, as most independent films do, the cinema may ask the film-maker to book a whole slot for a price).
"It's not easy. Though my film attracts people, it's still not enough to cover the screening cost," says Boonsong, a director whose previous film Poor People The Great is a story of a farming family in his home town.
"Initially I went to a cineplex operator to get my film released there, but I couldn't convince them my film would have strong PR that could bring in a lot of people. So I ended up at Lido, who's helpful, but I still wish there would be more people showing up."
Getting a film released is a hurdle faced by most independent film-makers; the lack of public space dedicated to non-mainstream movies made without a business agenda has long been an issue that seems to have no concrete solution. The government's idea of supporting indie film-makers often excludes a plan to make sure that their films, once finished, will have an outlet and reach an audience.
Boonsong's Four Stations is a good example of a movie made more with heart than with a calculator. The director adapted four short stories, each taking place in the four regions of Thailand, by four respected writers: Mala Kamjan (North), Wat Walayangkul (Central), Lao Khamhom (Northeast) and Paitoon Thanya (South).
Different in details, these stories all come together as they sketch a rugged portrait of rural Thailand and the perpetual struggle against the new era _ and against the changing values within itself. The story of an ethnic Mon man who comes to work in Bangkok is especially poignant in its bare-bone aesthetics resembling the neo-realist.
"I think independent film-makers will have to find a way to get their films out to the public without compromising their idea and intention," says Boonsong, who plans to show his movie at various universities around the country.
"I'm thinking that for my next film, I might just buy a projector and screen the film outdoors the old-fashioned way. Like nang klang plaeng. I mean, why not?"
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