The Boy on The Lighthouse

A young widow and an orphan boy are drawn together by grief when he stops her from walking into the sea, perhaps to join her husband’s ashes. But the sense of loss that underlies the film, and the attendant disorientation, is ultimately tribal or national rather than personal. This is confirmed by the fact that the scenes are based entirely on the director’s dream diary ie. his subconscious: dreams of violent death, of being lost in woods haunted by the ghosts of fallen comrades and government soldiers that show the state of confusion many people feel as a result of the distortions and gaping holes in Thai history textbooks, and our lack of cinematic freedom. This is yet another recent Thai movie to feature a tour of a CPT camp museum, except this tour ends with an attempted rape of two men by a creepy government soldier/demon.  There are some super corny scenes of a fake fantasy half-farang ‘Hilltribe Girl’ who’s supposed to represent the Spirit of the Forest—which may irk forest fire-fighting environmentalists especially when the backdrop is clearly devastated mountaintops, but the sincerity is winsome. Hallmark card corny, yes; sentimental, yes, but also very eerie and disturbing, and the acting is good. Hard to believe this film was made by a film professor and his students. They put many professionals to shame. Bloody well done.

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(Alice Skinhead)

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