Ploy - The stranger in the hotel
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ploy |
| Original title | พลอย |
| Country of production | Thailand |
| original language | Thai |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pen-Ek Ratanaruang |
| script | Pen-Ek Ratanaruang |
| production | Rewat supply |
| music | Hualampong Riddim, Koichi Shimizu |
| camera | Chankit Chamnivikaipong |
| cut | Patamanadda Yukol |
| occupation | |
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Ploy - The Unknown in the Hotel ( Thai : พลอย ) is a Thai feature film. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang directed the film drama with meticulous observations of an emotionless married life .
The film was released in Thailand on June 7, 2007. The first German DVD release - under the title Ploy - took place on October 17, 2008, the German TV premiere on December 2, 2009.
action
The former actress Dang and her husband Wit, a restaurant owner, return in the seventh year of their relationship during a funeral of the United States in her Thai homeland. Under the jetlag suffering, they lodging themselves in a hotel at the airport of Bangkok in order to find some sleep before morning. However, Wit does not calm down and decides to buy cigarettes. Meanwhile, Dang tries to unpack the suitcase. She discovers a suspicious note in her husband's jacket pocket - the phone number of an unknown woman named Noy.
Meanwhile, in the hotel bar, Wit meets the almost 19-year-old Ploy, an attractive girl with an afro look who is waiting for the arrival of her mother, who is arriving from Stockholm. The two are immediately likeable and Wit spontaneously invites Ploy to his hotel room so that those waiting can freshen up. In the room, the two are received by Dang, who takes the young stranger in an extremely friendly manner, although she is not very pleased with the visit. No sooner is she alone with her husband for a moment than she meets him with anger, incomprehension and jealousy . When Wit refuses to send the stranger away, a grueling argument begins about the lack of passions in their deadlocked marriage. As a result, Dang develops pathological hallucinations and murderous dreams towards Ploy in which she suffocates the sleeping girl with a pillow. At some point she leaves the premises frustrated.
In a parallel storyline, the bartender Nut and the maid Tum live out their sex fantasies. They enjoy themselves in the adjoining hotel room with erotic gadgets.
In the lounge, Dang orders coffee, which she secretly pours vodka into. A man speaks to her about her past as an actress. Film fan Moo flatters the drunk lady and invites her to his home by saying he knows Noy - the wife of Wit's memo. At home, the supposed admirer soon becomes intrusive. Dang is made compliant with drugs , badly mistreated and raped . When Moo wants to murder and burn his tormented victim in a remote ruin hours later, a fight breaks out between them, the end of which remains open.
In the meantime, Ploy and Wit, lying next to each other arm to arm on the hotel bed, philosophize about marriage. Finally, Ploy says goodbye and leaves without sex. Wit calls Dang and when she doesn't answer he mumbles "Don't leave me". When he is seen sitting at the memorial service for which they returned to Thailand, Dang sits down with him - she managed to escape her tormentor. Wit tells his wife that he loves her.
At the end of the film, Tum re-covers the bed on which she was loved by Nut, lies down on the bed and, looking directly at the camera, pensively sings a song about love and its sufferings.
Reviews
The lexicon of the international film wrote that the “meditative erotic thriller” created a “very idiosyncratic atmosphere” by “dealing with the everyday life of a marriage crisis”. In addition, the “loose structure causes some confusion”.
Awards
The director won the FIPRESCI award for this film in 2007 at the Cinefan - Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema . There were nine other nominations in various categories at the Asian Film Awards and the Bangkok International Film Festival .
Web links
- Ploy - The unknown person at the hotel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Ploy - The stranger in the hotel . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2008 (PDF; test number: 113 777 V / DVD / UMD).
- ↑ Ploy - The stranger in the hotel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .