
Ablackcloakofforgetting,suppressingandcoveringhasdescendedontheeventsthattookplaceinBangkokinspring2010.Blackasthenightofcompletedarknessinwhichthefilmopens.Twomenareinafishingboattalking.Onefeelsmorethanoneseesthattheseawateraroundthemiswarmandsmooth,teemingwithbrightly-coloredfish.Bynight,therubberplantationalsocomesacrossasenticingandfullofsecrets,untilluridremindersofthebloodymassacreflashup.<br/> Thisfilmarosefromofastateofshock–aboutthenews,aboutthesubsequentrepressionintheauthoritariankingdombutalsoaboutthedebilitatingpassivitythatfollowedthepro-democracyRedShirtuprising.Itisaradicalpersonalassessmentin17episodes.Anangryprotestintheformofadiary,wheresexualresistanceanderoticfantasiesarejuxtaposedwiththoughtfulrummagingthroughthedirector’sfamilyalbum,creatingaconfusingpamphlet.Asayoungboyinthe1970s,ThunskawasalreadyforcedtofleeBangkokforthesouthwithhismother.Thefilmposesquestionswithoutknowingtheanswers,providinganunusualinsightintoanextremelytraumatizedsociety.–Berlinale
