From "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives"-Survey The Strange Things In The Lens

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a well influential director in Thai new wave.His camera is filled with a lot of strange things in the world,reconstruct the global audience's imagination of the southeast Asian civilization by presenting the indigenous customs,myths,legends and discourse which is a state of insistence and firmness that other creators who are in collective anxiety and fail to position themselves can hardly reach.In many of his works,the most famous is“Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”.Reviews are more about “Oriental mysticism”?“ Pantheism ” ?“ Zen philosophy”based on western colonialism.This paper tries to present a different point of view by analyzing strange things appear in the movie“ Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past His Past Lives”via the method of comparative analysis?observation and literature research.The first chapter briefly describes the history of Thai film,and listing Apichatpong's works with mainstream comments.The second chapter takes four key items from the “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past His Past Lives”:jungle,ghosts,talking monkeys,and dialysis machine as the breakthrough point of analyzing and deviding chapters combined with his other creations.The third chapter is based on the analysis of the second chapter,proposes the view of “ghost wandering” to reexamine the film and some other works of art.