In the history of modern love, there have probably been more romantic words between two men than ‘’When I gave you the Clash tape, I forgot to give you my heart” but never once during ‘’Tropical Malady” could I recall what they might be. The film is an ethereal, leisurely paced romance between a Thai soldier named Keng (Banlop Lomnoi) and Tong (Sakda Kaewbuadee), a rather hip farm boy. They spend their days together doing nothing so much as chilling out. A pool hall is visited, a movie watched, a motorbike ridden, and a karaoke song sung.
This is a relationship remarkable for its apparent chastity. Such is love in the world of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a 35-year-old Thai filmmaker with a taste for the absurd, the sensual, and the sublime. Weerasethakul has an expert sense of how to reframe an ordinary image as poetry. The dust kicked up into the verdant landscape by a truck on a dirt road starts to resemble a fleet of clouds brought majestically earthbound.
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