Message from smilanick

[Anonymous]

Ruang Rak Noi Nid Mahasan (Last Life in the Universe) is a Japanese film primarily set in Thailand. The film was very different and eccentric but was again a beauty to look at. Kenji is working as a librarian in Thailand and fantasizes about his own suicide. His fantasies are played out and the viewer is not always sure if you’re in one of his fantasies or if it is actually happening. He’s a loner and is obviously severely depressed. He wears monochromatic light blue which goes with the color of his very clean fastidiously organized apartment and he is definitely the poster child for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

A bizarre chain of events leads him to a Thai girl named Noi who is a complete sloppy filthy disaster and he actually begins to connect with her. Initially there is a huge language barrier and they speak English to communicate with each other (Noi is also trying to learn Japanese). The end is bizarre, lots of death, hit men, jealous ex-boyfriends, and the spirit of Noi’s dead sister. Again, not appropriate for the classroom (unless it is a film class), but the film definitely had its merits.