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augustemars4.5

Was expecting a fantastic comedy with ghosts haunting vacuum cleaners in Thailand being a metaphor for queer relationships, and I got that but it was also a criticism of capitalism and how it erases history, how assimilation requires you to step on other people, how tradition is something to remember but also something to go beyond because it can oppress you, a testimony that memory is necessary to build a healthy future, a call for transmission, a call for resistance, a call for revolution. It was queer, ecologist, anti-capitalistic, and much more. It was funny, moving, revolting, visually extremely beautiful, full of originality and fun ideas and poetry and full of cinema. It was a testimony (both in its message and its form) that art and cinema are necessary to make people remember and to deliver political messages. It was so much more than I expected it to be. And it's a first feature film like damn.Easily one of the best films of the year. A little bit too long and a bit clumsy around the edges but I'm sure it will grow on me. Please go watch this if you have the opportunity to, I don't think you will be disappointed !

Philbert Dy4.5

I wish this was tighter, but you have to give leeway to new visions. And this is a very new vision: a mostly deadpan comedic Thai film about ghosts that possess appliances that somehow manages to also be a deeply felt political statement about the lack of accountability for the ruling class. Very based. Very cool.A thing I like generally in Asian movies is any depiction of ghosts where they're just treated as a part of life. Like, people take a second to register that the vacuum cleaner they're talking to is actually a ghost in a machine, but then after that they're just, "oh, of course, it's a ghost." In Asia, you grow up with spirits as a fact, and it just wouldn't be so strange if an appliance started talking to you.And then the movie gets into even stranger territory, examining national memory and how injustice is made institutional through the act of forgetting. I don't think that part of it fully works, but you have to appreciate the attempt. This feels pretty bold, all in all, while very much maintaining its unique sense of humor.

grandebavardeuse5.0

Que mon aspirateur ne soit pas un sale révisionniste de merde et que mon frigo abrite l’esprit d’un antifasciste (prière du soir)