FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Uncle Boonmee 

And what if our identity exists for all time and occasionally shows itself on the surface of life? At the moment we become aware of this, life would be without time limit. Isn't there this thought that we still knew heaven as children? As we get older and nearer to death, we receive them again, the greetings of the other side. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives offers this possibility. The title sounds as mysterious as that of its director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. At least for western ears. But if you are open to stories with ghosts who sometimes visit us, you have come to the right film! When I saw Unlce Boonmee for the second time, I realized that the movie was easy to understand. A dying man like Boonmee is also not particularly productive for a plot or action. He's taking his leave. Some things may seem strange like meeting a catfish. But that changes, if you look at the work from the point of view of reincarnation. Uncle Boonmee (Thanapat Saisaymar) lived as a farmer in the south of Thailand. It wasn't a very happy life. His nation was in turmoil during his lifetime and he certainly experienced more of it than he deserves! Now he dies with some family members and a nurse. He dies in his house in the jungle, in the middle of nature and sometimes ghosts appear to him like his dead wife (as beautiful as in his lifetime) or his son (with red eyes). But this is not a "classic" ghost movie, just because the ghosts are different than we expect them to be. Basically, they behave like humans and probably also exist in the consciousness. One time Boonmee enters a cave that looks like a womb. If man and the world are one, why should it not be the earth that gives life? In the end, I wondered whether the "real" world has more substance than that of hallucinations and visions? Doesn't what just happens in our heads happen? Is this "real"? Boonmee remembers during his last days the moments of his life and those who accompanied him. It's as simple as that.