หากสยามไม่โดนเผาเราคงได้ดูเรื่องนี้กัน 3 นักแสดง แคสติ้งระดับเทพ แถมเหตุผลชวนสยิวอีกนานับประการ กับการที่ทำให้ผู้ชมหลงรัก ปลื้มกับหุ่นสะบึมหรือบั้นท้าย พระเอกหน้าตี๋ นัยตาชั้นเดียว หากคุณเอียนหนังรักแบบไทยๆ ไม่ไฉไลกับหนังฮอลีวู๊ด ขอบอกว่าเรื่องนี้เจ๋งจริงเป็นแน่แท้

Starring the top two male idols in Taiwan today, Ethan Ruan and Mark Zhao, “Monga” is Taiwan’s blockbuster of the year which tells the story of five boys from the historical district of Monga in Taipei, who join a gang because they were tired of being bullied around.

The whole story happens in one of the district in Taipei, one of the main crowded area back then in the 1980s where there were 2 main force which “enforce” the security and welfare of the place.

Director: Doze Niu
Writer: Tseng Li-ting, Doze Niu
Producer: Zhiming Huang, Lieh Li
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Runtime: 141 min.
Language: Mandarin
Country: Taiwan

Cast

Ethan Ruan - Monk
Mark Chao - Mosquito
Rhydian Vaughan - Dragon
Jiayan Ke
Denghui Huang
Changxian Cai
Ju-Lung Ma - Boss Geta
Chen Han Dian - Dog Boy
Doze Niu - Gray Wolf
Shu-qin Ke
Xi Man-ning

At 2 hours 22 minutes, the movie was quite long actually and it was filmed and edited to show the public almost every detail of lives of Taiwanese youngsters back in those days. The hardship of a single parent family, the difficulty to cope in school not because of homework but because of bullies. The cliques, clans and ultimately the triads & gangsters that rule the street day and night. The traditional mindset, friendship and betrayal.

To tell you the truth, i like this movie quite much. Maybe because i enjoy stuffs made by Taiwan people, but hey if you go watch it yourself, you’ll realize the details the director was trying to show in this film. The various meaning and message behind the movie.

“Guns are for the weak ones, the useless ones, true men uses knifes and swords and their own fist to fight for their lives” well that specific part, i think that the movie makers are condemning the Western force then.

The complicated relationship between a hooker and a gangster featuring a Walkman on infinite loop of the song “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” by Nicky Lee ??? (Originally by Air Supply). I didn’t really see it coming from this movie actually.

Synopsis

Billed as an action-loaded gangster flick, Niu Chen-zer’s (???) Monga (??) stars some of Taiwan’s brightest young things, including Ethan Ruan (???) and Mark Chao

With a stellar cast and entertaining storyline that weaves together action and drama, the film should do well with younger audience members who like to view the underworld through rose-tinted glasses.

Set in 1980s Bangka, otherwise known as Manka, an old Taipei borough that is now part of the city’s Wanhua District (??), the movie opens with transfer student Mosquito (Chao) doing battle with school bullies. The following day, a high school gang comprised of Hoklo-speakers approaches Mosquito and recruits him.

Zhilong (Rhydian Vaughan), whose father Geta (Ma Ru-long) is a well-respected underworld kingpin, leads the gang of five. Fellow gang member Monk (Ruan), however, is the most ruthless. Together they skip class and spend their days getting into street fights, going clubbing and wooing girls.

หนังไทยที่หลายคนไม่มีโอกาสได้ชม กับผลงานระดับโลกที่คว้ารางวัลสุพรรณหงษ์ แถมรางวัลหนังต่างประเทศอีกหลายประเทศ ได้ใจจริงๆ ขอชมจากใจจริง ..ประทับใจจ๊อดสุดๆ อีกหนึ่งที่ห้ามพลาดกับภาพยนตร์คุณภาพคับแก้วที่หาชมไม่ได้ในบ้านเรา

Aditya Assarat's Wonderful Town opens with a prolonged shot of breaking waves, and the recent tsunami looms large, even though it's only mentioned once. Set in a small town in the south of Thailand, with ragged, lush mountains on one side and the ocean on the other, Wonderful Town tells the halting love story between Ton (Supphasit Kansen), an architect who arrives from Bangkok to supervise the reconstruction of a beach resort, and Na (Anchalee Saisoontorn), the beautiful woman who works at her father's hotel.

 Shot in stately compositions that frequently frame the human characters before two-dimensional patterns created from architectural details or rows of palm trees, Wonderful Town moves at a languid pace. Ton likes to sing in the shower and Na dreams of waves, and their gentle, halting courtship is affecting. He helps her take the laundry off the clothesline and brings her oranges from Phuket. She accepts them without an outward emotion, but when he's left, she holds them close and smiles.

Once love finds our characters, the camera grows more animated as well, but the title of Wonderful Town is at least half-ironic. Early in the film, Ton strays from his construction site to investigate what's left of a neighboring house, emptied by the tsunami. He picks up a sodden comic book and swings a few coat hangers in the empty closet. His coworkers tell him the house is haunted, but of course that's only half the story: the entire town is haunted, and everybody here has a past they can't leave behind.

 Awards:

2008 Deauville Asian Film Festival (Jury Prize - Lotus du Jury)

 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival (Best Film - Tiger Award)
2007 Pusan International Film Festival (Bean Pole New Currents Award)

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