The Forest (2016)
- Original title
- ป่า
- Directed by
- Paul Spurrier
- Genre
- drama film, fantasy film
- Country
- Thailand
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Rating
- 5.6 of 10 from 22 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A former monk becomes a teacher at a rural Thai school. A bullied girl who cannot speak meets a wild boy living alone in the nearby forest. The two form a silent bond, separate from the harshness of the village.
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What happens
The Forest (Thai title: ป่า) is a 2016 Thai supernatural horror film written, directed, shot and edited by English filmmaker Paul Spurrier, with the help of his wife Jiriya, and starring two first-time child actors and Asanee Suwan. The screenplay in its original language form was translated by one Preeyaporn Chareonbutra, who had done likewise with Spurrier's previous Thai film production, P. The story follows a former monk who has joined the teaching profession and is recently assigned by the education ministry to work at a grade school in a small village of an Isaan rural area, and it also follows one of his students, a bullied girl who encounters a mysterious wild boy in the woods neighboring the village, but this boy is merely wild in the sense of how he lives alone in the forest, subsisting bereft of clothing, tools and shelter, as he otherwise is ever articulate and well kept, like the human embodiment of an idea. The schoolgirl is unable to vocally communicate with anybody except for the forest boy. Her inability to speak has been the subject of ridicule and abuse by her classmates. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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