Movie: Sayew
Just finsihed watching Sayew.
This movie tries to explore adolescent sexual confusion and the historical moment in the early 1990s when an entire sector of the Thai yellow press went into eclipse.
The story goes as follows:
Tomboy student Tao (Pimpaporn) supports her studies by writing for her uncle’s racy magazine ‘Sayew’ (’Tickle’), but faces the sack unless she can sex up her prose to help fend off the challenge from glossy ‘adult’ photo mags.
Some site reviews that:
The film hits a viable balance between caricature and satire in its double-edged ‘tribute’ to yesterday’s porn. Without belabouring the political context, the directors have set the film just before the 1992 ‘Black May’ incident, in which the army violently attacked pro-democracy demonstrators: a time of economic difficulty when, they note, ‘everybody suffered stress’