Body (2007 film)

Infobox Film
name = Body


caption = The Thai theatrical poster.
director = Paween Purijitpanya
producer = Jira Maligool
Yongyoot Thongkongtoon
writer = Chukiat Sakweerakul
narrator =
starring = Arak Amornsupasiri
Ornjira Lamwilai
Kritteera Inpornwijit
Patharawarin Timkul
music =
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = GTH
released = Thailand:
October 4, 2007
runtime =
country = Thailand
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website = http://www.bodythemovie.com/
amg_id =
imdb_id = 1160315

"Body" ( _th. บอดี้..ศพ# 19 or "Body ... Sop 19", literally "corpse number 19") is a Thai horror-thriller film. It is produced by GTH, the same production company that made the hit Thai horror film, "Shutter". "Body" is directed by Paween Purijitpanya and co-written by Chukiat Sakweerakul, who had previously directed the thriller, "13 Beloved".

"Body" has parallels to an actual murder case in Thailand, in which a physician was convicted and given the death penalty in the dismemberment of his estranged wife.

Among the cast is Arak Amornsupasiri, who plays the main protagonist Chon. Arak is the guitarist in the Thai rock band, Slur.

Plot

Chon is an engineering student living in a rented house in Bangkok with his sister, Aye. Chon is having bad dreams, in which he is visited by a ghostly woman who appears to have been dismembered and put back together. He also sees a misshapen black cat and occasionally sees a fetus. Chon sometimes finds himself in places, such as a musical performance, and cannot remember how he got there.

After Chon slices his finger open while cleaning some prawns for dinner (the prawns had started moving around and bleeding profusely), Chon's medical student sister Aye takes him to the hospital.

Chon is eventually referred to a Dr. Usa for psychiatric treatment. It becomes apparent to Dr. Usa that there is some connection between Chon, herself and her increasingly distant husband, Dr. Sethee.

In the course of Usa's investigation, she discovers there is a connection between her husband and a mysterious university lecturer, Dr. Dararai, who possesses supernatural powers of hypnosis.

Meanwhile, Chon is continuing to have bad dreams, and they are becoming increasingly horrifying and real. He is repeatedly drawn to a spare room in his house, and when he opens the door, he sees a man chopping up a body. When the man turns his head to look at Chon, the man's face is Chon's.

A teaching assistant whom Usa questioned about Dararai ends up being killed in a gruesome accident involving barbed wire around a university museum exhibit. A young doctor meets his end in a vat of acid.

Chon tries to stop the killings, but is always too late.

Somehow, the connection between Usa, Chon, Sethee and Dararai lead to the university hospital's morgue, and body number 19.

Cast

*Arak Amornsupasiri as Chon
*Ornjira Lamwilai as Aye
*Kritteera Inpornwijit as Usa
*Patharawarin Timkul as Dararai

Parallels

The film production company's official synopsis states:cquote|A human being contains 5 liters of blood, 6 pounds of skin, 206 bones, 600 muscles, and 35 million glands. It takes a human body more than 25 years of life to grow such things.

But one man actually believes he can rid himself of every single piece of human flesh by just using straight scissors and a small surgical blade. And he is going to prove it. [ [http://www.afmfilms.org/catalog/FilmDetail.php?id=3665 Body] , American Film Market, retrieved 2007-10-18]

The story in "Body" has parallels to an actual crime case in Thailand, about Dr. Wisut Boonkasemsanti, a gynaecologist who also taught in the Faculty of Medicine at Chulalongkorn University. He was convicted and sentencedto the death penalty for the 2001 death of his wife, Phassaporn, who was also a gynaecologist. Wisut was found guilty of dismembering his wife and flushing her remains down toilets. [ [http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/07/26/headlines/headlines_30042516.php Death row for wife murderer] , "The Nation", July 26, 2007; retrieved 2007-10-18] [ [http://www.bangkokpost.net/education/site2007/inau0707.htm End of the road] , "Bangkok Post", August 7, 2007; retrieved 2007-10-18]

oundtrack

The song being performed during the musical performance that Chon attends is "Kid tung teo took tee ti yoo kon deaw" ("I Miss You Every Time I Am Alone") by Pat Suthasini Puttinan. [ [http://blog.nationmultimedia.com/fantasy/2007/10/18/entry-1 Thumb up for BODY Sop19] , The Nation Weblog, retrieved 2007-10-18]

References

External links

* [http://www.bodythemovie.com/ Official site]
*" [http://www.movieseer.com/MovieProfileBil.asp?moID=6369&Channel=2 Body] " at MovieSeer