Nuno Duarte Kenji (Tadanobu Asano), a thirty-something year-old Japanese librarian living in Thailand, who doens't suffer from obsessive–compulsive disorder but he surely exaggerates about cleaning or packing. Anyway, has a complicated brother whose scams and irresponsible acts leave Kenji's house with two dead bodies in it, his brother's and the assassin's. For the record, there's a scene where we see Kenji spying on a girl in a uniform, Nid (Laila Boonyasak), who works on the bar where we previously watch Kinji's brother. Kenji's got to run. Having already tried to kill himself before, he heads to a bridge and while preparing to jump, as he looks back a running over takes place right behind him. Nid was the victim He immediately helps the injured young woman and ends up requesting shelter to the girl who'd been making company to Nid, her sister Noi (Sinitta Boonyasak). Nid didn't survive. The story is not confusing at all, told in this way. The problem is that this isn't told to you very clearly. And from this point, scenes come up where Nid and Noi alternate. Like the Asian cinema has been showing, the director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang explores both loneliness and love. Eventually, the notion of the love being explored diverges from the normal, now more related to family or friendship, but still, very inspiring and audacious. The biggest problem with this one, is that it gets incredibly boring at certain points, making it quite uncomfortable to make it until the end, 6/10

vince4953529 This film basically tells the story of the encounter between two individuals through a random incident. The girl here is the delightful and pretty Noi, and the guy is the laconic and awkward Kenji.There is this moody and melancholic feel throughout the whole film. The girl's house is dimly-lit, the sky is gray, and conversations between the two are sparse. The atmosphere evokes many feelings from myself. There are certain scenes that conjured up some nostalgic memories from the past, and I can relate to many scenes from the movie all too well.There are some magical scenes: the two of them sitting silently watching television while the girl chain-smokes away, the scene where the papers gyrated around the house caused by the wind...This is a rather slow film, and the plot is simplistic. It's rather a film to be felt and experienced.

JesusChristTheSecond I am a fan of European and Asian films. I taped this movie on my video to enjoy it during my day off. I was excited and maybe expecting a lot out of it. But, it turn out to be 2 hours of dullness.It starts and the expectations are high. It gives you a pick when the main character experience a murder in his on house and makes another one tho save his life. This is the part where I was expecting the character to change dramatically. The plot up to that point is great, but then the character can not remain the same and start a "love" story! The character should have start feeling things like guilt maybe or whatever to change his view of things, his philosophy of the world, his ego and so on.The movie had great potential and manage to spoil it by showing us the last "love" in the universe. Even this could have been done in a better way. How the hell someone murder and then goes on with his life and get happy because he gets a new "old car" and on and on...Unfortunately the movie is 3 out of 10 And my afternoon was destroyed...

Kaloyan Nedelchev Last Life in the Universe is slow-going movie and it's shoot elegant. Very good narrated story. The movie is realistic - represents the modern Thai reality and the human relations with all the blemishes. The camera movements give to the plot more ethereality. There is close-ups (not only) shoot from extreme angle. Also was use tilted camera which helps to dramaturgy of the movie. There is a harmony between the music (just one continuous melody) and the camera movements which follows the story. Mostly shoot indoor, the lightning reproduce the feeling of claustrophobia, but at the same time something tell us that there is some good end: the love gives hope! The characters of the two are so different one from another, but they are both lonely - he just recognize it.