Mammoth: Although a high value production, not one of Modysson's better efforts. The script has some real problems.
As for the LOS part of the story... the guy goes to a BKK club and doesn't even seem to notice that he is surrounded by beautiful women. Sadly, they don't make it to any other dark clubs. He goes back to his luxury hotel and dutifully calls his wife. The next day he stays in his room and does not explore BKK. The guy is obviously retarded.
Eventually he gets tired of waiting for the contract to be ready to sign (he is a video game designer), so he goes off to some cliche of an island resort and finds himself a hut on the beach. He meets some falangs and pretends to be a cool world traveler like them. He somehow also manages to stray into a local drinking establishment with bar girls. One incredibly cute TG (whose broken english and drunkenness are poorly acted) tries to "seduce" him. He gives her money to go home, to save her from one night of prostitution. Like I said, he is obviously retarded.
There is an amusing little scene where the bar girls and a tranny discuss their clients by nationality. They hit all the cliches. Arabs fare the worst.
The cute TG, having been given a taste of his money, doesn't give up and goes to visit game boy in his hut, offering to show him the "sights". She has a moped. They see an elephant and lots of other Thai wonders. They have a midnight swim and, still wet, his libido finally kicks in and they f***. Or make love. Post coitally he offers to take her around the world, and she agrees. She does not mention her kid.
In the morning he regrets his misstep and misses his blond high strung wife at home. He leaves the cute TG a couple of wristwatches, a mammoth pen, and tiptoes out the door.
The pen is wrapped in Mammoth bone and costs $3,000. The cute TG and her Thai dealer have no idea what it is worth. He should have just given her $3,000 for the extra LT.
I think the pen is supposed to represent the absurdity of the materialistic world, in contrast to what really matters, family, love, bla bla.
There are other stories in the film, as you can tell from the trailer. And parts of the film aren't bad. I was mostly interested in the LOS scenes. But like I say, his visit to BKK was like a nightmare of mine. I wake up in BKK, in a hotel room, and I can see the city outside, but I can't leave the room, and no one can come in. I can feel the presence of TGs all around me, but I am forced to spend all my time on the phone with my wife back in the States. Really disturbing.
The penultimate movie about Thailand. And of course it goes wrong almost from from the very beginning. Cliche upon cliche.
But what I find most curious (inexplicable) about this commercial vehicle, is how few TGs there are in it. Leonardo lusts after a french girl who already belongs to a french guy. They swim to an island where there are only falang women and men. WTF? Where is the allure and seduction of LOS?! The movie is a fake. It could have been staged anywhere in the world unknown. Why bother raping an island in the southern part of LOS?
But perhaps, as with so much disinformation about LOS, it may be a good thing
Quote: from Quim on 6:44 am on May 13, 2010 ...like a nightmare of mine. I wake up in BKK, in a hotel room, and I can see the city outside, but I can't leave the room, and no one can come in.
In my BKK nightmare, I suddenly realize I am in BKK and have been there for weeks but I haven't done anything (SC, NEP, Tulips, etc) and I am leaving on a flight out the next day. I wake up in a cold sweat and debate what is actually better, to be in BKK and not have done anything with time running out fast or to be back home and not in BKK at all but a future trip planned?
I'll take even one night in BKK. Sucks to have wasted all the others, but even one night can be a hell of a night and last me quite a while. And TD, I know you know just how to live one of those nights.
That said, the last couple of days are always the hardest, no matter what has come before them in terms of debauchery. And the last night is always the saddest. It's like your loved one is going off to war. Your child leaving for college. Your girlfriend telling you she needs to spend some quality time with Antonio.
But at least you know, or hope, you will be back soon. It's only the last page of this particular chapter of the sordid tale you are telling. Still, it's painful.
Matroesjka (or Matrioshki, english title) (from matryoshka doll, russian nesting dolls, the dolls that fit one within the other) is the name of the mini series. Made by Belgians.
As BK knows, I could say a lot about this series, mostly bad. It is a very simplistic, cliche ridden take on the sex trade and sex trafficking in particular. With lots of annoying Belgians yelling at each other. And worse.
And they keep slamming the poor Arab customers. Sooo unfair
But, as BK points out, the first few episodes of the second season are actually shot in LOS and PTY, with real TGs (even if they are too light skinned, uniformly attractive, and lacking in tattoos to be credible Issan girls). It's all one big sordid soap opera mess. Still, the first 3-4 episodes are worth watching for their PTY scenes. And the TGs are adorable.
And now that I have watched a few episodes, I am, regretfully, hooked. I can't wait to see what nasty stuff these disgusting Belgians get up to next. Just leave the sweet TGs alone.
I have been trolling Russian and eastern block girls on Facebook and social networking sites since-
I am a professional you know (just show me alittle more)
Hey I got an idea lets get Daffy and his tough mates to sqyeeze out the mob down at Pattaya and take over all those gentle eyed east block babes dying to be rescued on walking street.::
Once we came across a Russian on beach road badly bashed at 4am -(male) The girl I was with such a wonderful warm hearted Thai from pepermint ago go on hearing he was russian, pulled me away.
She said "look darling baht bus come cross now, is ok he shit"
Last I saw some hungry evil eyed Ladyboys had spotted him and were moving in for the kill (watch and wallet most likely)
Most of this f***ers end up in fields once the Thai cops feel like killing a few of them who dont pay up enough
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