Title: Not enough substance to justify trying to connect it together
Product review: Poetic? Possibly, but disconnected and pretty boring - and fashionably 'minimalist'. An obsessive, fastidious and reclusive young Japanese man, Kenji, living in Thailand, perpetually contemplates and often attempts suicide - seemingly with ultimate success. He meets a wild and disorderly Thai girl, Noi, and sits around her for most of the movie - despite Noi's several vain attempts to initiate sex. There is a sub-plot, in which a nest of gangsters kill one another and, for good measure, try several times (unfortunately without managing it) to kill Kenji. This movie is brought to a merciful conclusion by her departure for Japan and his arrest. It takes a smarter man than me to make much sense of this pretentious waste of film, which in some ways recalls the genre of Alain Resnais' "Last Year in Marienbad". I suppose I am just not into deeply-hidden meanings, because it has received almost universal rave reviews.
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