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A young girl has been kidnapped in a poor Bangkok neighbourhood, and
nobody knows that the nice spinster next-door has the little one locked up
in her house, basically because she never got over the death of her own
daughter, who drowned in a barrel when the spinster was supposed to look
after her. Nobody knows she has kidnapped the girl but the next door
student that is, but instead of reporting it to the authorities, he keeps the
woman and the child under observation via his binoculars and uses them for
his psychology thesis. And as the time progresses, he pushes the woman
more and more towards insanity, until she really does go mad and tries to
kill the girl ... only then does the student intervene, and in the end,
he's celebrated as the hero of the story, even though he's more guilty
than even the spinster. Interesting thriller with a totally
unexpected plottwist towards the middle of the film - when the spinster and the girl
are revealed as nothing but labrats in the student's experiments - that
nevertheless suffers from its too long (circa 90 minutes) running time:
The longer the film lasts, the less new it has to tell, the more
repetitive it becomes (after all, there are just so many ways to show a
woman's descent into madness). Would the film have been around half an
hour shorter, it would have been great, like it is, it's still ok (in an
above-average way), but definitely falls short of being a masterpiece ...
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