Chok Dee - fight for your dream
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Chok Dee - fight for your dream |
| Original title | Chok Dee |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French , English , Thai |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Xavier Durringer |
| script |
Dida Diafat , Véra Belmont |
| production | Véra Belmont, Georges Langlois |
| music | Calbo , Siegfried, Yvan |
| camera | Guillaume Schiffman |
| cut | Raphaëlle Urtin |
| occupation | |
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Chok Dee is a French feature film from 2005 . The film is based in part on the life story of Dida Diafat , an Algerian Muay Thai fighter who also took on the lead role.
action
Ryan is arrested in Paris after an attempted car theft and sentenced to six months in prison. In prison he meets the former Muay Thai master Jean, who fought in Thailand many years ago and now brings him closer to this martial art. Jean is able to convince Ryan to travel to Thailand to train there in Bangkok at a traditional and renowned martial arts school (Lukbanyai Gym, Bangkok) and so give his life a new meaning. In addition, Ryan is supposed to find his daughter Kim after arriving in Thailand and give her a letter with a diary from Jean in which he wants to present his daughter's view of things for the prison stay. Shortly before his release, Jean gets Ryan tattooed on his forearm with the words "Chok Dee", which translates as "good luck". After Ryan is released from prison, his mother gives him a large part of her savings, as she also wants him to follow a proper path in his life and supports his wish. He travels to Thailand and eventually arrives at the martial arts school that Jean spoke of. Because foreigners are not allowed in there, Ryan wants to fight for admission to the school. With an iron will to persevere, he increasingly earns respect and also accepts adversities such as bad weather, ignorance and low work. He is then also allowed to take part in the training (very rarely for foreigners) and gradually improves his skills. The combat school promoter no longer wants Ryan at camp and then gives him the choice: he must win a fight against a combat student or he must leave the camp. Eventually he denies the fight and loses after hard elbow blows. However, the promoter is visibly impressed by Ryan's hard will and gives him the opportunity to continue training and thus underpin his authorization in the gym. Jean is released from prison and also travels to Thailand. In addition to his daughter Kim, he is also looking for the business partner for whom he once went to prison for smuggling heroin. Ryan has now fallen in love with Kim and, under the care of Jean, becomes a very strong fighter who can ultimately fight for a fight in the Rajadamnern Stadium (the Mecca of Muay Thai). Whoever wins there is a champion. A reconciling conversation between Jean and his former business partner (in which Jean is now claiming his share of the business) turns out to be very difficult, as he does not respond to Jean's claims. Jean is foisted on heroin in his hotel room and arrested for drug possession. Ryan now denies illegal underground fights in order to then pay the bail for Jean. As a result, Ryan is expelled from boxing school and gambled away the chance to fight for the world title in the Rajadamnern Stadium. After Jean was released from prison with the help of the proceeds from the illegal competitions, he is furious because he cannot accept that Ryan risked the world championship fight at Rajadamnern Stadium for him. After consultation and help with the well-known boxing promoter from the Lukbanyai-Gym, whom he still knows from his active days, Jean can organize it so that the illegal boxing events are excavated by the police and Jean's former business partner (who has him taken to prison at the time) can be arrested. Ryan gets his chance back to fight for the world championship and actually fights in the fully occupied Rajadamnern Stadium, which is even broadcast live on television and can win it. Towards the end of the fight, Jean is stabbed to death with a knife from behind by a henchman of the former and now imprisoned business partner in revenge in the middle of the crowd. The film ends with Ryan and Kim burying the cremated corpses of Jeans in the Chao Prayha, as he always wanted.
criticism
The lexicon of international film judges that the film production is a "[g] ediegen staged initiation story". The main character is “quite” sympathetic, but the film does not convey a “particularly profound [...] message”.
Web links
- Chok Dee - fighting for your dream in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chok Dee - Fight for your dream in the online film database