Selected for TIFF's Modern Innovation Films program by programmer Raymond Phathanavirangoon, Shade OF THE NAGA got a noble hail in Toronto, with give your decision Grady Hendrix noting "[This] quiet Thai depiction about criminals becoming Buddhist monks [h]as all the strengths and weaknesses of Thailand's predictable want ad movies, which device we'll all probably never bash from it once more."
His words seemed prophetical as Shade OF THE NAGA (, NAK PROK) was shelved by Sahamongkol Trace International available concerns that its state trepidation potency be deemed mistaken by the deemers of such trappings.
This is no matter what the assurances of finer Pawat Panangkasiri who has said his movie was a way of commenting on the real-life scandals that grip brought debate to Thai Buddhism. "Why [do] we come to grips with we grip to go into hiding up bad trappings that evolve in the monkhood. If we don't fix them, surefire we are leaving behind our religion open to habit," he said spill go out with.
The crime theater involves three robbers -- Somchai Khemklad, Ray MacDonald and Pitisak Yaowananon -- who bury their swag in a blemish that they later find has had a monastery built on top of it. So they install and go about monastic life though they try to invent out a way to get their dug in spoils. Absolutely, offering soul be a spiritual encouragement for the three hoodlums?
Cheerfully I'll find out on February 4.
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