Helpful Review of Ghost – dark comedy summons Thai ghosts from the past via haunted hoover | Movie

Here is a beautiful and confident debut from 39-year-old Thai video producer Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, who won the competition. Critics’ week of the big awards in Cannes last year. It’s a worldly sad dark magic fantasy done with passion and complexity, about spirits who refuse to be imprisoned after death. after the country’s subsequent disasters: the bloody results of the military crackdown in 2010, the coup d’etats in 2006 and 2014, and before them, the 1976 demonstrations of Thammasat University, together with their loved ones who went to their own silent graves.

The Helpful Spirit is heartfelt and beautiful in her photography; dreamlike tableaux are well integrated into the edit and the overall effect is disturbing, ugly and deeply sad. It is in some ways a distortion of the real spiritual things that have been described in the films of the Thai master Joe Weerasethakul, such as. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Remember His Past Life and Tomb of Splendor. And you can also see some great western movies like Ghost and True, Madly, Deeply.

Boonbunchachoce he sees a country in Thailand that is aggressively destroying and destroying its past problems; almost remove, for example, frieze from Bangkok’s 1940 Democracy Monumentcreating clouds of symbolic poisonous dust. An expert (Wisarut Homhuan), writing a paper on this frieze, is surprised when his new vacuum cleaner begins to cough up the dust it has just removed. Repairman Krong (Wanlop Rungkumjad) who arrives very quickly after calling the customer, tells him his problem that the factory that made the hoover has a problem…

A worker named Tok (Krittin Thongmai) haunts this factory like a poltergeist after he passed out on the floor of the shop after inhaling poisonous dust. And the bad karma extends to the factory owner’s family: Nat (Davika Hoorne), the young son-in-law of the owner’s widow Suman (Apasiri Nitibhon) died in childbirth due to dust inhalation and returns to attack one of the factory’s cleaners; It comes to life and she tries to have sex with her sad husband March (Wisarut Himmarat) who is tragically ready to meet this comfort. But Nat’s ghost is defeated by Suman and then the government minister Dr Paul (Gandhi Wasuvitchayagit) to get a job in the government by disrupting the dreams of the workers who are keeping the ghosts of various businesses and politicians in their memory.

Suman has to forget this nonsense too – she is the soul in the oppressive machine, the soul that the machine tries to turn to all the other souls. And there is something very troubling about how Nat’s spirit can be “converted” by taking advantage of her desire to have a child, even when she herself has an ectoplasmic problem. Without the written permission that would have been necessary, the widow is told that she can use frozen eggs for this purpose, and Nat’s spirit is presented as a “death day” gift to the upper house of the minister. It’s a fitness video with blood.