gordonl56 6ixtynin9 - 1999 This one is a bit hard to tag, it is sort of a dark comedy mixed in with plenty of violence and a neo noir feel.A young woman working in a Bangkok bank is laid off. The woman, Lalita Panyopas, is the sole breadwinner for her family who live in a country village. She is at a loss as to what to do next. Thoughts of suicide enter her mind as she ponders her future.She returns to her small apartment to sleep on her problems. Her apartment, number 6, has a loose number that slips down and become a 9 when the door is slammed. This is of course is going to cause Miss Panyopas, a ride into the dark side.The next morning, Panyopas opens the door to take out the trash, she finds a cardboard box sealed with duct tape in front of the door. She picks it up and brings it inside. She grabs a knife and opens the box. Inside, there is $25,000 in cash. What is she to do? Keep it, or turn it into the police.A quick trip to the Police station ends that idea when she sees several people being tossed into the cells. She decides to keep the loot. There is soon a knock on the door. She answers and finds two thuggish looking gentlemen looking for a box that had been left in error. Panyopas says she knows nothing about it. The two smile, then give her a fist to the side of the head.A quick look around the apartment finds the cash. Panyopas is not inclined to giving up the loot. She grabs a flowerpot and brains the one thug. The other goes for her and they struggle on the bed with the thug strangling her. As it so happens, the knife Panyopas had used to open the box is still lying on the bed. She grabs it up and spears the swine with it. Panyopas now has two dead bodies on her hands. What to do? She hides one in a storage trunk and the other in the closet.Now we find out about the cash. It is the rake off from a crooked boxing racket. Every week, the cash is dropped at apartment 9 for the Thai Mafia. The men this week making the drop had mistaken Panyopas' apartment for the drop place.The boss of the boxing racket, Black Phomtong, soon gets a call from the Mafia about the non-delivery of the week's cut. Needless to say Phomtong is at a loss to explain this, so he promises to straighten the matter out. He sends two more thugs to look into the matter. The Mafia likewise sends a man to check up on things.A Policeman who lives in the building happens upon the Mafia type. Guns are pulled and presto change-o, we have two more bodies littering Panyopas' apartment. She goes out and buys several more trunks to stash the bodies in. She decides that she should leave the country sharpish like. She always wanted to visit the UK.She needs a passport and a visa pronto like. She has heard of a place where an under the table passport and papers can be had for a price. It turns out that the establishment is a sideline of the boxing racket outfit. This of course will enter into play later on.Panyopas has the passport in the works, a ticket to London bought. Now all she needs to do is dispose of the stiffs. She enlists the help of her best friend, Tasanawalia Ongartittichai. Panyopas needs to borrow her pickup to move the corpses. She is going to dump them is a black water lake just out of town.While this is going on, the racket boss, Phomtong, has discovered that Panyopas is the one who has his cash. He details one of his henchmen to kill her if she returns to get the passport. He is going to a meeting with the Mafia boss at Panyopas' apartment building.Panyopas and her friend stop to grab the passport. Pal, Ongartittichai, is killed by the man assigned to kill Panyopas. Panyopas, who is by now is becoming used to bloodshed, in turn kills the gunman.Meanwhile, back at the ranch, er, apartment, the racket boss and the Mafia man are having a healthy dispute. Each is blaming the other over the missing cash. Guns are again produced and soon there are 6 more bodies piled up.Panyopas returns home to find the new stiffs. She has had enough. She pulls the cash from the hiding place where it was stashed, and hits the road. She takes the cash and dumps it all in the lake. It has caused her nothing but trouble. Panyopas then drives off to return to her country village. She has had enough of the big city.The misread apartment number bit has been used in several, mostly comedy films before. The story starts with a definite comic feel to it, but grows progressively darker as the film unwinds. The killing of Panyopas' friend, Ongartittichai, was particularly surprising. This is the kind of film one could see the likes of Quentin Tarantino or the Cohen Brothers making.I liked it.

Eran Innocently enough, we thought we'll be watching a Thai thriller/action movie. The movie starts quite odd, but that's OK - it's a Foreign Film, after all. The movie starts with a recently-fired woman who finds a large sum of money on her doorstep. She intends to keep the money at all costs - and since she's not the brightest in the bunch, it leads to all sort of stupid acts taking place. A screenplay writer over here once wrote that you can have only one "act of God" to start the plot - but you can't have "coincidences" all over the place to help you push the plot forward. This movie had some funny moments and some unexpected moments. However, in overall, it looks like the Thai director just created scenes that look like ones from an American thriller of the same type (Money, two groups of gangsters, murders and bodies) without understanding how to do it gracefully. The outcome is very weird at beast, usually just horrible to watch. I say - spare those two hours from your life and watch something else.

dwpollar 1st watched 11/29/2005, 8 out of 10(Dir:Pen-Ek Ratanaruang): Wonderfully twisted tale of a woman who loses her job, finds a package of money in front of her doorstep that was intended for someone else, kills the two mafia folks who are trying to get the money from her, stashes them in her apartment and that's just the first 15 minutes!! At first, she's just a pawn in a situation that she wasn't supposed to be a part of, but as each person gets killed coming after the money, she becomes the aggressor and wants to keep the money badly so that she can start life anew in another country. This movie is thrilling, exhilarating, comic, tragic, frightening and full of twists and turns. The woman in the middle of everything is played superbly by Lalita Panyopas as she gets deeper and deeper into her situation and becomes more and more hardlined. As she cleans the blood from her apartment after each killing she breaks down only once, and then gives into her obsession completely during a wonderful scene where she lets her best friend see what's been going on in her life lately as she dumps the bodies in a nearby lake. This is one of those "one of a kind" foreign movies that grips you more and more as it goes on. Americans; please don't be frightened by subtitles, the blood, or the fact that we get to see a couple of individuals urinate into a toilet!! Let's grow up!! This is a great thriller from Thailand that should be enjoyed by a lot of people, not just by those who speak the same language and know the way things are in the country it was made.

mya_andaman I had to watch this film too many times for a film studies course and by the end of the course I was so fed up with it. However, I do think it's a very interesting film...the way the story goes and the way it was made. It definitely is very different from other Thai movies and personally, I think that's why it never made it big in Thailand. I thought the editing was great and the filming technique makes it more realistic and closer to everyday life. Plus the plot surely suited the situations within the country at the time. As for the story I really liked the idea of how everything turned out the total opposite and upside down just cuz of the poorly attached room number "6". I never thought it would be showed in other countries, let alone it gaining foreign fans. I'm glad other people appreciate a small production Thai movie as much as I did.