The effects were good enough. The film is moving along very slowly though. I'm not sure I got the end of the film. Two of them duplicated. Not making sense with the ghosts or anything. The past lives are a bit strange and not all that well marked. Unless his past life was one of the blind fishes in the pond in the cave. It was strange and supernatural but lacked sense.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thai:Loong Boonmee raleuk chat) (2010) Afterlife visits A dying man in Thailand In his final days. His late wife, a missing son. Ever so casual, The two materialize At dinner's table. Mystifying glowing red eyes, Floating see-through shapes Inexplicably troubling. Reincarnation, He has lived many past lives. Once he was an ox, A catfish in a cave has Sex with a princess. Philosophical musings, Cultural concepts, Spiritual reflections, Communist concerns, Metaphysical ideas, Cosmological. Buddhism, Dualism, Eroticism, Illusions and memories, Confused? So was I. Excruciatingly slow, The beautiful shots, Intellectual ponderings, Few and far between. I like knowing characters. Abstract and distant, I could not connect nor care. I tried, really tried, Uncle who I won't recall. A dream? More like a nightmare. (Choka (長歌 long poem)) was a storytelling form of poetry from the 1st to the 13th century, known as the Waka period. The choka is an unrhymed poem with the 5-7-5-7-5-7-5-7...7 syllable format (any odd number line length with alternating five and seven syllable lines that ends with an extra seven syllable line).

This film won the 2010 Cannes Palme d'Or (best film award). Its incredible cinematography and excellent use of color combine to create an eerily beautiful atmosphere that is supremely transformative, but in terms of storytelling won't suit the palate of mainstream tastes.Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has a wonderful eye for human tragedy and a brilliant way of weaving Thai spirituality throughout the mundanity and at times absurdity of every day life. This film focuses on Uncle Boonmee. While he is dying he is beset by the ghosts of dead relatives; A terminally familiar Thai plot. With the scary appearance of Boonmee's dead son in the form of a red-eyed monkey spirit, its a movie that explores the scattered connection between the living and the dead, and the emotional resonance that bolsters it.Given only days to live, he demands that he be allowed to die at home where he becomes saturated by images of his past lives and their respective humor, tragedy and totality. If you liked this, I suggest you also like watching Tropical Malady another great film from my native country Thailand.

Throughout this movie it kept crawling in my mind how certain scenes or dialogue or concepts would be great when it is actually done as a proper movie …. then the thud comes when I have to remind myself that, this is IT… this is the movie! Really? Poorly executed … and wait … it won the Palmes D'or? What? Really??! In what parallel joke universe is this?Sure, one can watch this movie and draw parallels and philosophize and read and interpret many things within it, as all who loved it have done … as if there is a strong need to squeeze justification out for this 'nice idea badly done' film. One too can do the same razzmatazz staring at the wall or watching the world from a bus as it meanders through the city or the country side. Go take Pink Panther or any movie you've seen … good or bad …., or the paintings scrawled by the snout of a 'talented' tapir... and yes, bingo… tons of things you could read and imagine within them, whether intended or not! And yes, one could get nothing from it, or one could truly feel excitement and learn things too! And… that's Uncle Boonmee for you too … no more no less.