Daytime on the 4th of July was hot, damp, and overcast. I was an unmotivated lump. My new roommates for the summer were watching Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior on DVD with no subtitles. It wasn't hard to follow what was going on, but it wasn't easy, either. Regardless of what the plot significance of the stolen Buddha statues might be, the fight and chase sequences totally redeemed the movie. Maybe no subtitles is the best way to watch it... See above if you doubt me.
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2 comments:
The Buddha statue was stolen and had to be gotten back. That's the plot point, really.
So the guy who won the village tree-fight had to go get it back. Because he won.
He'd been adopted by the village and owes his life to the village Buddha, who gives the whole village luck and apparently rain too.
This tree-fighting champion, Ting, has the address of an ex-villager who leads a dissolute existence in the city riding motorbikes and gambling.
This ex-villager is as useless as a hole in the head. So Ting has to fuck shit up all on his lonesome, and of course he gets back the head.
Ting uses Muay Thai kick-boxing, which a lot of mixed martial arts fighters train in. They use elbows and knees besides regular old kicking and punching, so they can do a lot of damage when they get in close.
Excellent. While that neither enhances nor diminishes my enjoyment of the movie, it is clarifying. And, I should say, most of that was pretty clear from watching the movie, as well. Thank god for the visual language...
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