Fren, a young woman working at a large company in Thailand, has just found she is several weeks pregnant. As she drifts through life seemingly discoinnected, she has to try and and decide whether to bring a child in to a cold cruel world.
This very much a self important art house film. Much isn't said. The characters either say too much or nothing at all. We are supposed to sort it out for ourselves since we either have no words or too many meaningless ones.
I know that the film is supposed to mean something but I never connected to the humanity of anyone in it. From the opening moments the world is portrayed as bad. There is no hope. All the news we hear is bad. There are no real human connections since everyone is too insular or self absorbed. That Fren is pregnant is kind of a shock since we really can't figure out how she is with her boyfriend.
Yes its clinically a well made film but its so icy as to be lifeless.
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