Arranged by a smuggling syndicate, A-Hong and his young teen sister along with a group of Burmese youngsters sneak across the Myanmar/Thailand border and arrive in a remote town called Dagudi in Northern Thailand. A-Hong's sister is taken away by the gangs as her mother has sold her to them. A-Hong goes to Bangkok and works under a tour guide, a wildcatter from Myanmar who has lived in Thailand illegally for years. The flood has killed the tourism business. A-Hong followed th... (Full plot summary below)
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Arranged by a smuggling syndicate, A-Hong and his young teen sister along with a group of Burmese youngsters sneak across the Myanmar/Thailand border and arrive in a remote town called Dagudi in Northern Thailand. A-Hong's sister is taken away by the gangs as her mother has sold her to them. A-Hong goes to Bangkok and works under a tour guide, a wildcatter from Myanmar who has lived in Thailand illegally for years. The flood has killed the tourism business. A-Hong followed this big brother back to Dagudi, trying to sell a batch of medicine that could be made into profitable drugs to local gang leaders. All A-Hong wants is to get the cash quickly and redeem his sister, but he cannot reach the smuggling ring anymore as the phone number never works. San Mei, a young Burmese woman who is assigned a job by the smuggling syndicate to fetch A-Hong's sister, has been taking her risk by smuggling Burmese teenage girls overseas, hoping to get the Taiwanese Identity Card promised by the gang leader for years. After accomplishing the last assignment, she realizes the dream to gain the sense of security is hopeless. Unfolded through two parallel narratives, this is a border town story woven between Tolstoy, amphetamines and Durian.
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| User ReviewWalter M"Poor Folk" starts with A-fu(Zhao De-fu) and A-hong(Wang Shin-hong) completing a successful smuggling run between Myanmar and Thailand. Back in Bangkok, they make contact with a businesswoman who seeks to facilitate goods between the two countries. In the meantime, A-hong is having trouble finding his sister. He knows she left Myanmar but does not know where she has been transported to. "Poor Folk" is a movie that explores the life that refugees from Myanmar lead in Thailand, working on the edges of society in risky and illegal jobs just to survive. At the same time, there are hints here on what made them want to lead their home country so badly in the first place.(For example, one of the characters has never heard of Leo Tolstoy which some might consider very sad.) And increases in digital film technology allow film makers like director Midi Z. to make films in places they would not have been able to otherwise. The drawback especially with this film is that the lack of production values can be just as readily apparent, especially as it applies to this disjointed narrative. |
