"Beach morning glory!" "Excuse me, we're filming right now." " Could you wait here for a moment?" " Sure." "Thank you so much." "Standby." "Ready to shoot." "Excuse me, we're filming right now." "Could you..." "What a nuisance!" "What a bitch." "They're like that, Bangkokians." " Where are you from?" " I'm from Yasothon." " That's Mhum's hometown!" " Yes, that's right." "I'm from Khon Kaen." " Ah, you're from the northeast too!" " Yes." " What kind of movie is this?" " It's an indie movie." "What's an indie movie?" "It's like..." "Umm... indie movie..." "Low budget movie." "Like..." "Something like... that Boonmee movie?" " 'Uncle Boonmee Who Can Reborn Again'?" " Yeah, something like that." "Where can I watch it?" "Where...?" "Probably in international film festivals." "As for theatrical or DVD release, it's up to fate." "Why did you say that?" "Well, it's normal for an indie film." "What's the title of this film?" "'Ln April the Following Year, There Was a Fire'" "What?" "'Ln April the Following Year, There Was a Fire'" "Eddie's now working here in Khon Kaen." "He's a temp at a school around Nam Pong." "Wherever he goes, he takes a stereo and his laptop with him." "People hire him to play music at parties." "If they pay him 50 baht, he gives them 20,000 baht worth of music." "Do you ever see Goong in Bangkok?" "Not often." "Only once in a while." "What, you don't hang out with your friend?" "Actually, most of our friends came back home for work." "Bangkok is so chaotic right now." "Things are getting complicated." "But what can you do, it has to happen." "Are you gonna look for a job here?" "I haven't decided yet." "That's OK, just take your time." "There're lots of new bars here now." "We should ask the guys out for some drinks." "No money but we still love to drink!" "If we have some rice whiskey, we could get drunk instantly." "Did you go to 'Mai Thai' concert in Bangkok?" "You're this talky because you're a salesman or being a salesman made you talky?" "Hey, watch your mouth!" "When will we get to your house?" "Almost there." "Don't you remember the way?" "I've never taken this way." "Usually, I drive on the main road." "This is the new road, it's a lot more convenient." "I take this road when I go to work in town." "It's very convenient." "Khon Kaen is really developed now." "Civilization has reached us at last." "Dizzy and blurry, it's dizzy and blurry." "Dizzy and blurry, it's dizzy and blurry." "Dizzy and blurry, it's dizzy and blurry." " Dizzy and blurry." "It's dizzy and blurry." " Stop!" "Damn it, stop." "What the hell is this dizzy and blurry shit." "Can't you at least finish a song?" "Well, you guys weren't talking." "Fine, fine, I stop." "Let's talk then." "But what's to talk about, only old memories like old people." "No future to talk about, only the past..." "Now, there're lots to talk about." "Let's drink!" "Bottoms up!" "And as we drink to our miseries." "Of the bygone lover." "...to the bygone lover!" "Let's just eat." "Guys, what about tonight?" "The wedding..." "Let's get some envelopes for the wedding." "You mean for the money?" "I don't have any money but I'll buy you the envelope." "I have neither," "I'm still a student." "You studying for a medal?" "Nearly done yet?" "Final year of engineering, for the last 3 years." "You must be the faculty's grandpa by now." "Let's not get serious, drink up." "Why so serious, drink up, drink up." "Bottoms up!" "Bottoms up!" "Getting married during Songkran is quite a good idea." "Why?" "You know, everyone's back from Bangkok." "Back home for Songkran anyway." "You mean, lots of envelopes, lots of money." "Oh, come on..." "Wedding is all about getting envelopes." "What else is there?" "Some marry for love..." "Thank you." "Thank you so much for coming." "Krid is inside, greeting some guests..." "Please sign your name in the book." "I'll see you later inside, thanks so much." "When did you come back?" "I thought you forgot Khon Kaen already." "Make yourself comfortable." "Hello... thank you for coming." "The candle which burns brightly, will illuminate the path of life." "May the sun shine upon your marriage, and melt two hearts into one." "May all the sacred forces from the Holy Trinity bless the two souls to be together unto eternity." "Distinguished guests, please give a round of applause to the lovely couple." "Thank you." " Excuse me." " Yes." "Are you Nhum?" "Yes, that's me." "Don't you remember me?" "I'm Joy." "Ah, Joy." "Yes, yes, now I remember." "How could I forget you..." "Do you remember I once gave you a bouquet of flowers on your graduation day?" "Yes." "You were only in 10th grade back then." "How precocious." "So how come you're here at this wedding?" "Well, I happen to know the bride." " Really?" " Yes." "What a small world." "The groom is my colleague." "Oh, I see." "Anyway, your dress... and my shirt... are the same color." "The color's the same." "You look like... you had too much to drink." "No, no." "Not yet." "You're still so beautiful." "Thanks." "Well, I need to go to the toilet." "Sure." "Hey... you're a handsome man now too." "Thank you so much." "Hello, dad." "Oh, I thought you were coming yesterday." "I went to a friend's wedding last night." "After that, we went to Art's house..." "Aren't you working today?" "No, it's school break now." "Oh, yes..." "Have you found a new job?" "No, not yet." "I'm going to search for it on the Internet." "I think I 'll stay home for a while." "And I 'll go back to Bangkok at the end of the month." "Your brothers put their stuff in your room." "Put it away yourself, will you?" "Do they come here often?" "Not recently." "Oh, I bought a new pony." "It's at my friend's stable." "Come to see it with me sometime." "Turn off the water, will you?" "Why are you back alone?" "Where's grandpa?" "It was so boring." "I wanted to come home." "That's not right." "Don't do it again." "Yes, mom." "I feel so pitifuu... uu... ul..." "Enslaved to lov... w... ve..." "Falling in love with you, I'm full of tears." "I'm miserable, and tearful like a crow." "Black as a crow, as a crow." "My heart is not as dark, you know... ww... ww..." " Don't despise me." " Bottoms up!" "Don't desert me because of my dark skin." "We have the results of today's horse race." "1st round, 7th class, 1st place: 'Pitak Thai'." "This one's a clear winner." "2nd place: 'Rak Derm Pan'." "3rd place: 'Rak Thai Sangop'." "Pitak Thai is a dark horse." "After chasing Rak Derm Pan till he was all beat, our favorite horse lost in the final round." "So Pitak Thai's win was a real surprise." "For the 2nd round, the Maiden Class..." "When the house caught fire, you were six months old." "You were born in November." "In April the following year, there was a fire." "It burnt down the house, everything... except our car." "I took your brother Ohn, your mom and you to stay near my school in Tha Pra." "You were 6 months old." "Ohn was 6 years old." "You grew up in Tha Pra." "My students used to come play with you." "There were so many students." "Panna (a famous stuntman) was one of them." "Panna used to do cartwheels outside our house." "Some students liked to play football." "I like raising horses, so I'm gonna start a stable." "I mean, after the retirement." "But I won't turn it into a career." "I do it because I like it." "I couldn't do it now." "As a headmaster, I have little spare time." "Recently, I just found out something." "I started making films because I didn't have a happy childhood." "Why do you want to tell people about that?" "I don't know." "Should I keep it to myself?" "You must use some technics." "Don't tell it so directly." "This story is based on my brother's and my life." "It's so sad because of this and that..." "No, you can't tell the story like that." "You have to tell it slowly." "You can later reveal it's based on a true story." "There are people who suffer more than us... poorer than us." "We aren't the saddest men on earth." "Many people are poorer and more desperate." "There are also rich people." "They never have to struggle." "They never have to worry about food." "They just care about where to find good exotic food, while some people don't even have anything to eat." "They don't know what they can eat today, or the day after." "No need to talk about education, they need to eat first." "So, you can take anybody's story and turn it into a film." "How about the jellyfish?" " Did it change you?" " Well, it's something that changed me." "But it's only one part." "No one knows if my life would be better if I wasn't stung by jellyfish." "It could be better." "It could be worse." "Nobody can be sure about that." "Have you found a new job yet?" "Not yet." "But almost." "What were you doing in the backyard?" "Nothing much." "I just wanted to build a hut." "I'm done." "Please wait over there." "Were you disappointed that I quit engineering studies?" "First..." "I was... because you'd been studying for some time and you were doing OK." "But when I saw you were so fixated on filmmaking," "I realized that you must have really liked it." "You seemed much more keen on film, and wanted to quit your studies." " When?" "Your second year?" " Yes." "You wanted to study film instead." "At a private university." "I didn't let you." "You already studied for 2 years, and your grades were OK." "I thought you could still go into film after your graduation." "This is a story that has been told and retold." "A long time ago, there was a widow." "She had a very beautiful daughter." "One day, she and her daughter went looking for bamboo shoots on a mountain." "They found more bamboo shoots than usual." "So they went to a market to sell them." "Their bamboo shoots proved a great sale." "So, she bought her daughter some new clothes and other things that her daughter wished for." "When they finished shopping, and were about to leave the shop, the shop owner said to the widow," "'Your daughter is so beautiful.'" "'Why don't you send her to live in the palace, so she can have a good life'." "The widow followed this advice." "Now the daughter was living in the palace, she became the subject of men's desire." "Finally, she decided to marry a nobleman's son without telling her mother." "The widow was concerned." "She found out that her daughter got married without telling her." "She wasn't angry." "She just went to the palace to see her." "When the daughter saw her mother, she acted as if she didn't know her." "She even sent her mother away." "The mother went home in sorrow." "She felt hurt and couldn't stop crying." "So, she went to the temple to find peace in her life and finally became a nun (Chee)." "One day, she went to the mountain, the one she used to pick bamboo shoots with her daughter." "She sat down." "Her eyes started to well up." "She cried and cried until her tears turned into a river." "And her life ended there." "People then started calling this river" "River 'Chee'." "Do you come here often?" "Me too." "Do you like reading?" "I do but I don't have much time lately." "So, I don't read much now." "Have you ever read any Albert Camus?" "'The Stranger'?" "I read it in school." "Why?" "Albert Camus once spoke about the conditions for happiness." "First, stay in an open space." "Second, do creative work." "Third, be free from all ambitions." "And forth... fall in love with someone." "Cheers!" "You know what, when foreigners give a toast, they look each other in the eyes." "It's being respectful." "OK." "Hey, you don't have to stare that long!" "Only when we do the toast." "What a country boy I am." "Actually, I think... your eyes are so beautiful." "I want to get lost in them." "Cut." "There are 32 casualties from the confrontation between the army and the Red-Shirts." "Most of which are small arm injuries broken bones caused by being headbutt by rifle bodies and hit by rubber bullets, causing scratches and swells." "Both the soldiers and the Red-Shirts were hit by tear gas." "The transportation of the casualties was changed from ambulances to boats, since after the confrontation, the roads were closed down." "The Bangkok Emergency Medics or Erawan Center has reported 107 casualties since the soldiers had pushed through the occupied areas." "32 persons at Vajira Hospital, 2 persons at Mission Hospital, 29 persons at King Mongkut Hospital, 10 persons at Central Hospital, 13 persons at Rama Hospital," "9 persons at Hua Chiao Hospital, 8 persons at Siriraj Hospital, 3 persons at The Police Hospital and 1 person at Chulalongkorn Hospital." "And one measure which aims to decrease the number of protesters is to tell the protesters to go to Nang Lerng Racing Stadium." "If they wish to go back home, there'll be a car service there." "But now at Pan Fah Bridge, there are still a lot of protesters." "As for the bullets found during the operation to reclaim the occupied areas this afternoon, many people have questioned if the bullets were real." "In the news conference at 5pm, the spokesman for CRES has restated that there were no real bullets in the operation, amidst the reports that both the officers and the civilians were injured by real bullets." "...in Ratchaprasong and many other occupied areas that are now facing riot problems, the CRES has clear policies to deal with the problems in Ratchaprasong;" "to tighten the security, put up more check points, and screen out activities that may affect national security." "These policies are based on the principle that all casualties must be avoided." "'He got stung by jellyfish!" "', they were shouting." "So, we washed the wounds with fresh water." "Then someone said, 'Fetch some beach morning glory!" "'" "'Rub it. '" "'Mash it up and rub it.'" "Then, people started to gather around us." "Then, someone just grabbed the beach morning glory." "It had sand in it..." "The morning glory on the beach, it had sand in it." "I just rolled it up and rubbed..." "Only you?" "I don't know." "Lots of folks did it too..." "Ohn always says that you were the one who did it." "Well, we all did it." "Professor Chat and others, and me..." "It was from the boy scout training." " That was how Ohn got the scars?" " Not immediately." "In the evening, his legs were infected." "So I took him to a hospital in a camp." "There was an army doctor there." "Ohn was stung badly on his legs." "The doctor said if he wasn't strong enough, he would have drown in the sea." "What happened to your legs?" "The scars?" "When I was sixteen," "I went on my dad's school trip to Cha-Am." "Someone told me not to swim out too far." "I was young and stubborn, I didn't listen." "I swam to the deep spot." "It was late afternoon." "The tides were getting higher." "I felt a strange sensation on my legs." "At first, I didn't think much about it." "But then the thought of jellyfish popped into my head." "I suddenly realized I must have been stung by one." "I tried to wave to the people on the shore to come rescue me." "But nobody saw me." "I finally managed to drag myself onto the shore." "When my father saw me, he freaked out." "He rubbed my legs with beach morning glory so hard that I felt sore all over." "Actually, I thought a gentle rub should be enough." "That's how I got my scars." "And my dream of becoming a cadet vanished into thin air." "I opted for a technical college so that I could wear trousers to cover my scars." "Where was your mom at the time?" "My mom?" "Mom had already left us." "A few years after the incident she passed away." "Actually, I might have been overly sensitive about the scars." "Because to qualify for a cadet academy, it was mentioned that the applicant shouldn't have a conspicuous scar." "But in a way, it was a good thing that I didn't turn out to be a soldier." "Sorry, I was on the phone with my boss." "Your son drew these?" "Yes." "He likes to draw." "Where is he now?" "He's with grandpa and grandma in Udorn." "These pictures make me miss him." "Shall we take him out for lunch?" "That sounds good." "I have to go soon." "Will we see each other again?" "Of course." "I'm still home for a while." "I'm going now." "Every rainy day was my day." "But the rain made you wary." "We met, and bonded, amidst the rain." "Yet we were happy in its absence." "Then changes came upon us." "We went separate ways." "But our love remained." "The days turn - just like love." "I feel it - the time passing." "Happiness " "I had known." "Love no more - you remain." "Then changes came upon us." "We went separate ways." "But our love remained." "The days turn - just like love." "I feel it - the time passing." "Happiness " "I had known." "Love no more - you remain." "The days turn - just like love." "I feel it - the time passing." "Happiness " "I had known." "Love no more - you remain."