#Tropical Malady

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ASIAN QUEER MOVIES 🎬🌈

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“All of us are by nature wild beasts...”

FAVOURITE THAI FILM(S) PER YEAR • 2004 ↳ TROPICAL MALADY (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul 

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Tropical Malady (2005) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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Second one is based on Tropical Malady which is a movie that is very good.

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tropical malady (สัตว์ประหลาด), dir. apichatpong weerasethakul (2004)

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Tropical Malady

Original 2005 French grande poster f/ Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cannes jury prize winner.

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French film poster for Tropical Malady / สัตว์ประหลาด (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, released 2005.

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TOP 10 NEW TO ME FILMS OF 2024

I was tagged by the fabulous @chinchillasorchildren to share my top ten new-to-me watches of 2024. I excluded both 2023 and 2024 releases. Much love to Consuming Spirits, dir. Chris Sullivan (2012), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, dir. Ronald Neame (1969) and El Sur, dir. Victor Erice (1983) which each narrowly missed this list. I tag YOU 💜 😘

AT BERKELEY, dir. Frederick Wiseman (2013)

BLISSFULLY YOURS, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2002)

BRINGING UP BABY, dir. Howard Hawks (1938)

A CITY OF SADNESS, dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien (1989)

CURE, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1997)

DEMONLOVER, dir. Olivier Assayas (2002)

FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES, dir. Toshio Matsumoto (1969)

LATE SPRING, dir. Yasujirō Ozu (1949)

MY BRILLIANT CAREER, dir. Gillian Armstrong (1979)

TROPICAL MALADY, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2004)

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Tropical Malady (2004)

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"Freud was particularly interested in the 'home' as a site for the emergence of the uncanny. The 'heimlich' is potentially that which is known, familiar and comforting; its opposite, the 'unheimlich', gives rise to that which is unknown, unfamiliar, even frightening. Ultimately, the uncanny is that which should have remained hidden, out of sight. As Rosemary Jackson states, this way of understanding the uncanny adds an ideological or 'counter-cultural' edge to the concept.'"

— Barbara Creed, "Tropical Malady: Film & the Question of the Uncanny Human-Animal."

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https://thefilmstage.com/apichatpong-weerasethakul-on-evolving-cinematic-memories-and-a-shared-global-consciousness/

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“I give you my spirit, my flesh and my memories. Every drop of my blood sings our song. A song of happiness. There… do you hear it?” - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Tropical Malady fanart

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a review of tropical malady

I used to feel disconnected to movies like this, where you’re basically just dropped into the world and not a lot of effort is put into acclimating you or making things make sense. Tropical Malady is challenging in that it’s slow paced, the plot is strange (and non-linear), and language/cultural differences make certain references and translations less familiar to me.

But now I feel much more disconnected to movies where things are laid out coherently and linearly, because that’s not how i’ve experienced life (lol). And the slowness Weerasethakul creates in his movies relaxes me and reminds me that the confusing elements aren’t like math problems to be solved, they’re just things to explore.

The only of his movies I’d seen before is Memoria, which I loved. By the time he made it, he’d become more subtle, but it’s just as experimental and leaves a lot of open questions the same way Tropical Malady does. Reading other peoples’ thoughts on it has been so rewarding, I’m glad this wasn’t my typical experience of seeing a weird ass movie and then just mulling it over privately. The unfamiliar is the ideal place to explore and learn, and in such a deeply sensory, indefinite movie, the elements that prevented me from always having a solid idea of how the characters and moments were connected to one another also made it possible for a totally new experience to bloom - the sweetness of tentative romance, the dark moral lessons of a folktale, the tiger stalking its would-be murderer, its would-be lover.

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Sud pralad, 2004

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Tropical Malady (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Malila: The Farewell Flower (2017) dir. Anucha Boonyawatana

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Tropical Malady (2004) dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul