Sud Pralad

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

IndieLisboa 2005 •

Thailand , Fiction, 2004, 118′

Something magical is in the air. Times are happy and love is uncomplicated for young soldier Keng and country boy Tong. The film starts with a sensual love story, pleasant evenings with Tong’s family and song-filled nights in town… Then life is disrupted by a disappearance. And some kind of wild beast has been slaughtering cows. Local legends say a human can somehow be transformed into another creature… Then begins a tale of a soldier who goes alone into the heart of the tropical jungle, where myth is often real.