Ong-Bak — re-pass
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
Our read · Ong-Bak — re-pass (2003) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Ong-Bak — re-pass
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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