Stars: Theeradej Wongpuapan, Ratnamon Ratchiratham | Written and Directed by Ping Lumpraploeng
I have been very excited about seeing The Pool for a long time. The poster and initial images I saw were impressive and I have always loved the idea of movies set in one small location. Whether it be Phone Booth, Man On A Ledge, Ryan Reynold’s in Buried or genre movies like Pontypool and Exam. Even my favourite movie, The Breakfast Club, could be included in the same niche genre.
So a guy stuck in an emptied swimming pool with a crocodile had me jumping for joy…
That sounds like a pretty small idea for an hour and a half movie but do not worry, writer and director Ping Lumpraploeng has a lot of ideas to fill the time. Almost every one of these ideas are ways to torture the lead character Day, played by Theeradej Wongpuapan.
I have been very excited about seeing The Pool for a long time. The poster and initial images I saw were impressive and I have always loved the idea of movies set in one small location. Whether it be Phone Booth, Man On A Ledge, Ryan Reynold’s in Buried or genre movies like Pontypool and Exam. Even my favourite movie, The Breakfast Club, could be included in the same niche genre.
So a guy stuck in an emptied swimming pool with a crocodile had me jumping for joy…
That sounds like a pretty small idea for an hour and a half movie but do not worry, writer and director Ping Lumpraploeng has a lot of ideas to fill the time. Almost every one of these ideas are ways to torture the lead character Day, played by Theeradej Wongpuapan.
- 7/28/2020
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Films which feature characters trapped in simple but wildly unlucky situations go one of two ways. Either the characters are so relentlessly stupid that one wishes they would just hurry up and die, or they're so ingenious and determined that they become fascinating to watch - especially as the film then has to work extra hard to keep them trapped despite that. Happily, The Pool is the latter type of film. Though conceptually slight, it has an appealing put-upon hero in Day (Theeradej Wongpuapan) and a constant flow of ideas to keep up the pace.
We first meet Day when he's working on a film set - a production based around a swimming pool, in which his trained dog Lucky is also a participant. Through a series of complicated circumstances - more convincingly played out than you might expect - he and his girlfriend Koi (Ratnamon Ratchiratham) become trapped in the.
We first meet Day when he's working on a film set - a production based around a swimming pool, in which his trained dog Lucky is also a participant. Through a series of complicated circumstances - more convincingly played out than you might expect - he and his girlfriend Koi (Ratnamon Ratchiratham) become trapped in the.
- 7/19/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Occasionally, artists experience a creative low point in their careers, usually linked to a personal crisis or a feeling of being stuck. In an interview with HollywoodChicago Thai director and actor Ping Lumpraploeng states it was this kind of crisis which inspired his script for “The Pool”, a blend of drama and thriller. He considers the situation of the characters, while certainly exaggerated, a reflection of his feelings ten years ago, but also his drive to escape this emotional dead end. Given the personal connection of the story, Lumpraploeng decided, as with many of his other films, to focus on a minimal setting and the internal struggles of his characters faced with an extreme situation.
Even though he has been working for many years within the film industry, the job of art director Day (Theeradej Wongpuapan) has not become less demanding. Indeed, the opposite is true, since,...
Even though he has been working for many years within the film industry, the job of art director Day (Theeradej Wongpuapan) has not become less demanding. Indeed, the opposite is true, since,...
- 12/8/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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