Sunday, January 27, 2008

The House in Thaipusam

Hm as per my usual activity during Public Holidays; I went for work at BTC. Cari RM habiskan RM cari RM habiskan RM hehehehe. Kitar kehidupan macam itulah. Well, I am looking forward for work today with Azrin around. Hehehehe my partner in crime she is. Work as usual. Not so much of recovery therefore more alpha can be done. Once the alpha is done, it will be much much easier to do recovery through and through.

Ada beberapa cerita yang di kongsi bersama. Pasal yang seorang itulah. Saya cuma senyum ajer. It seems that a new girl has join the Kiddies. A very talkative person and according to Azrin very mush praised by the It-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. I can see that. They spent so much time together yak yak yak. Well, It-Who-Must-Be-Named is THE Supreme, so I guess no one can tell her not to chat that much. In fact no one can tell anything! Well, obviously It thinks IT has been so perfect that no one is better that It is. It knows how to do it's job better than the rest, knows more than the rest and above all perfect! Yeah right! Whatever - and yet It still questions why everybody seems to be ignoring It? Hm, slow gak dia ni kan?

Well, I have got plans with the Movie Buddies after work. The chosen movie - The House (Thailand Horror Movie). We plan to scare ourselves. We here referring to Kak Lorna & myself. The guys were not interested in doing so pun hehehe. Azzam & :) wanted to have something to eat befoe the movie begins. So me & Kak Lorna went to collect the tickets. We had a heavy discussion as what movie to watch at the counter (We haven't actually had any final say). We asked the people at the ticket counters for their opinions & we even called the guys to give them some description about each movies. And so we chose The House. We got the tickets and went to see the boys at Santai. Azzam went for his prayers and we've agreed to meet up at the Cinema shortly before the movie begins. As we were walking down The Street, Azzam pops up from God knows where and so we went straight to the Popcorn counter. Kak Lorna treated us again for the Popcorn. Nanti lain kali kita belanja akak pulak yea. So, the movie begins Huhuhu

I am so lazy to write and so I paste here the sypnosis of the movie I obtained from someone else's blog and review.


She has been warned not to enter The House but Shalinee (Inthira Chaloenpura - the Heroin of Nang Nak) is a TV reporter assigned to make a documentary about a murder that happened six years ago. It is her duty to check out the crime scene even though a caretaker has refused to let her in. However, even from the outside, Shalinee gets the feeling that The House is haunted. She even manages to capture images of a female ghost on her video camera! Shalinee sneaks into the spooky shack at night - ALONE!

The House", also known by its Thai moniker, "Banpeesink", is based on three real-life murder cases that are all connected to a particular house near a hospital. The first case, on 18 Sept 1959, involved a nurse, Nuanchawee Patchara, who was raped, strangled and dumped in a river. The second, on 28 Sept 1999, had a woman named Jarmjuree knifed and cut up into pieces by her boyfriend; and the third, on 20 Feb 2001, involved a woman doctor whose body parts were found near a hotel in Bangkok. How the House is connected to all these cases is open to conjecture but Arayangkoon offers his own reason at the end of the movie. It is a lame one by any count.

Of course, a large part of the movie deals with Shalinee's life, especially her problems with her husband Parnu, and a colleague named Shane who has the hots for her (but besides the vision the husband has had in his mind, nothing was shown as why the husband would have this idea). There are elements of jealousy, spiritual possession and betrayal but these are poorly developed and they lack credibility. Many of the scenes shift so randomly that they are confusing.Lead star Chaloenpura,, puts up a credible performance as an inquisitive and determined journalist. However, she is largely hampered by a weak script and poor direction that requires her to scream like a brainless schoolgirl. Still, she is the only bright spark in this horror thriller that is more to be tolerated than be thrilled about.

Scary? Oh yes, the scary element worked in the "normal-creepy-dark-" surrounding that was largely used by Thai directors. It never failed to scare me though. It still does. Even there are occasions where I accidently grabbed Kak Lorna's arm a bit too hard. Ampun Kak, saya terperanjat. Itu yang terpegang tangan akak dengan kuatnya tu. Tak sengaja. By the way, the ones highlighted in red is the one I paste, the one in blue is of my own opinion. Overall, I believe the plot was a loose one.

Well, even though the 3 incidents mentioned in the movies were based on true stories; they could not come up with an interesting interpretations as to why they think the house is connected with the murders. They did not offer any, if not so little interpretation of themselves. Well, I was so frustrated when it came to this part. For, since I knew that it was based on true accounts, perhaps they could come up with ideas like maybe the house was built on a burial ground, or the pillar was made from the tree where they tortured or killed people during the war, or perhaps people who once stayed there dabbled in black magic etc etc. The point is there are a lot of interpretation to the story. Pick one which is not lame ler. Heck I am not even a script writer myself, but one noticed that during interview session some folks did mentioned the war era, and also during the end when Shalinee had wanted to burn the pillar ( it seems that the pillar is the source of everything that happen; at least that is what shown in the movie) she was "trapped" or somehow "transported" to the scene whre there were wars raging (bit like Constantine her). So obviously something can be shown the ease the viewers anticipation right?

According to what I have read in regards with murders;

First case: The Nuanchawee MurderIn September 18, 1959 Nuanchawee Patchara, a nurse was strangled and drowned by a group of men. Her body was found in the Choa Praya River. Around the time of murder, she was having an affair with a married doctor, Utid Kajorndate who became a suspect. He finally confessed that he hired a group of men to kill his secret lover after she had threatened to tell his wife about their affair.

Second case: The Jarmjuree MurderIn September 28, 1999 Chalerm Songkramkrad, a medical student, murdered his girlfriend, Jarmjuree Ploysawangsri in a cold-blood manner, and then tried to discard the body by amputating the limbs and slicing his dead girlfriend into tiny pieces, after she tried to break up with him. He later confessed to the police that he did it out of jealousy.

Third case: The Dr Pusuratt MurderIn February 20, 2001 a female doctor, Pusuratt Bhungaysornpan was reported missing. The police later found pieces of human tissues which matched the DNA of hers in the central drainage at the famous hotel in Bangkok. Doctor Watson Bhungaysornpan, her husband immediately became a murder suspect with the motive, that he had wanted a divorce and start a new life with his new lover.

But during Shalinee's "Interview" with the ghost of Nuanchawee Patchara - What I concluded was that the ghost seems to be doing its duty to remind all ladies that they were the cause of what had happened in the house. She even put the blame on Shalinee for ignoring her signs and advice to stay away from The House. This is the part where I don't understand. What did the ladies do that gives the doctors rights to kill them? What was the ghost's clear message to Shalinee - women are the caused for the guys suffering that leads them to the killing of their once beloved spouses or partners? I just couldn't get the idea of the whole thing that the director was trying to make out of it. Or perhaps I was just being too slow to understand? I don't know.

Really, appreciate some feedbacks frm those who have watched the movie. I am exhausted from the scare and frustrated from the lack of understanding about the movie. I know most of you are not even reading my blog, but for those who did; really apprecite if you could help me with the understanding of the movie.

Not to worry, I still crave for horror movies. This definitely will not stop me from continuing my interest for horror movies. Next in line will be The Eye and One Miss Call. So movies----watch out for me!!! Or should it be the other way round? :)

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