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I saw this film a week ago at the Bangkok Film Festival and I was impressed. Life is this spiritual journey, and there is where it starts, waking up dreaming! the film amazes me because I have been trough the same experience in my life. Constantly searching for a balance between work and nature's harmony. Because of the Netherlands economic mess, as a Video Artist, I ended up working as a croupier in a casino as well. Constantly in the dark (no windows), the same horrible lost people, and yes every day the same, life becomes a habit and you become an habitual animal, forget that you are truly alive. I tried to get people out of their in stead! You expressed this wonderfully, You really experience in it in your film in such a way that it irritates you, and every scene of nature is a harmonious way out of it! that is life exactly. As a croupier for 6 months I needed to get out of that black hole and flew to Thailand. Where I live ever since as a freelance FREE documentary maker and lives observer. I lived here now for 4 years and am completely free. let's all do that!!!! I live in the most beautiful part of Thailand in the North. But love to observe the lost man in Bangkok, where I saw this film too.. I was impressed, the film is the experience! is the wake!!! And the use of dream archetypes like a serpent impressed me, because they are ancient ways to express deep rooted emotions, but in this time we almost forgot about them. getting closer to the deep rooted instinctive drive and sexuality, marvelous expression. Great expression of truth One thing which always strikes me with films or performances like this is that most people that are stuck in similar habitual unconscious world, are only able to see what it means, and means to get out, become aware, once they get out by themselves, and then they will recognize the film again! The film is a reminder of how dead we are alive. She won AWARD--BEST ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT FOR PHANTOM LOVE! at the Bangkok Film festival, which is well deserved!!!
score 7/10
MauriceSpees 3 November 2007
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