Fear of flying saucers
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose Sang Sattawat (Syndromes and a Century) is facing demands from Thai censors for four scenes to be cut before it can be released, writes in The Guardian:
There will be those who wonder why this matters; why an independent film-maker’s movie getting shelved should be of concern to anyone. It’s because what happens in the film industry shows us more than how the board of censors works. It shows us how Thailand works. And that really is important.
Read the whole thing, as they say.
Sunday 16 Sep 2007 | Paul | Thailand
