Citizen Dog

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Citizen Dog (Thai) - 3.75/5




Dir: Wisit Sasanatieng



The director of Citizen Dog must be a big fan of Jean Pierre Jeunet cause this is a total replica of style of the French movie Amelie. But this dosen't mean this is bad.

A strange, romantic comedy by the director of Tears of the Black Tiger is the story of a country boy named Pod. He heads to the city to look for work, heedless of his grandmother who warns he'll grow a tail as soon as he finds a job. He takes a job first in a sardine factory and loses a finger, only to find it again. He then becomes a security in an office and had a crush on a maid, an introverted girl named Jin who obsessively cleans and reads a mysterious white book that she can't understand. He changes jobs again, to a taxi driver, to help her out. However, with Jin's other obsessive natures and desperately chasing her own dreams, with Pod finally win her heart?

This colourful happy musical rom com is totally insane. You get involved in a accident losing your favourite tapping finger and recovered it back in a sardine tin. You get a motorcycle taxi driver who get killed by raining helmets, coming back to do his job just because he is so routinely involved in that he dunno what else he can do as a ghost. You get your grandma reincarnated as a gecko to advice you just before you are going to commit suicide. You get a talking teddy bear call Thongchai who smokes and scold vulgarities. But overall I like the ridiculous, outrageous plotline and the whole surrealism, dreamy feel of this movie. Its a combination of 50% Amelie, 30 % Chungking Express and 20 % Punch Drunk Love.

The bad bits of the movie it tends to reuse the same material, the scenes and shots over and over again so by the start of the second half you will get a bit bored. Visually this is impressive, the tracking shots, the over saturated colours, the use of low budgets to make art (plastic bottles). Overall a highly recommended movie to people who want to laid back and see something entirely different from those blockbusters and zombie flicks and see a nice sweet little movie.