1st watched 11/29/2005, 8 out of 10(Dir:Pen-Ek Ratanaruang): Wonderfully twisted tale of a woman who loses her job, finds a package of money in front of her doorstep that was intended for someone else, kills the two mafia folks who are trying to get the money from her, stashes them in her apartment and that's just the first 15 minutes!! At first, she's just a pawn in a situation that she wasn't supposed to be a part of, but as each person gets killed coming after the money, she becomes the aggressor and wants to keep the money badly so that she can start life anew in another country. This movie is thrilling, exhilarating, comic, tragic, frightening and full of twists and turns. The woman in the middle of everything is played superbly by Lalita Panyopas as she gets deeper and deeper into her situation and becomes more and more hardlined. As she cleans the blood from her apartment after each killing she breaks down only once, and then gives into her obsession completely during a wonderful scene where she lets her best friend see what's been going on in her life lately as she dumps the bodies in a nearby lake. This is one of those "one of a kind" foreign movies that grips you more and more as it goes on. Americans; please don't be frightened by subtitles, the blood, or the fact that we get to see a couple of individuals urinate into a toilet!! Let's grow up!! This is a great thriller from Thailand that should be enjoyed by a lot of people, not just by those who speak the same language and know the way things are in the country it was made.
