“A Woman Dies, Only to Return in the Form of a Vacuum Cleaner to Stay Close to, and Intimate With, Her Husband. YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT! Thai Writer-Director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachachoke’s a Useful Ghost, World Premiering in the Critics’ Week Lineup in Cannes”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
After Nat Dies from Dust Pollution, Her Husband, March, Is Consumened by Grief. “” His Daily Life is turned Upside Down Down Down When He Discovers His His Spirit Has His Spirit Has His Spirit Has Has ReinCarnated In a Vacuum Cleaner, “Reads The Durm HiCHE, HISHOHACHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHCHHCHCHCHCHHCHCHHCHCHCHCHHCHCHCHCHCHCHHCHUCHHERNCHICHHACHICHHACISSis For The Dor Synopuhh,” Reads The Daads. For TV and Has Made Short Films (Red Aninsri; Or, Tiptoeing on the Still Trembling Berlin Wall). “AS ABSURD AS IT SEMS, Their Bond Is Rekindled, Stronger Than Ever. But It Is Hardly to Everyone’s Liking. His Family, Still Haunted by The Acidental Death. Prove Their Love, Nat Offers to Clean The Factory to Prove Herself A Useful Ghost, Even If That Means Doing Away with Lost Souls… ”
Thai Actress, Influencer and Model Davika Hoorne and Witsarut Himmarat Star as the Couple in the Movie from Bangkok-Basted 185 Films, on Wich Best Friends. The Ensemble Cast Also Includes Apasiri Nitibhon, Wanlop Rungkumjud, and Wisarut Homhuan.
The Film is inspired by mae nak, A Well-Known Ghost Story in Thai Folklore. As that story goes, a young woman had undying love for her Husband. WHEN She Got Pregnant, He Was Sent to War in the Thai Army. After Getting Wounded, He Had to Be Nursed Back to Health, While His Wife and Their Baby Died Durying Childbirth. WHEN The Man Returned Home, He Found His Loving Wife and Child Waiting for HIM, IGNORING WARNINGS FROM NEIGHBORS THAT Has Living with Ghosts.
“IT’s An Iconic Character in Thai Popular Culture, and there have been tv, theater, and other stories about it,“ Boonbunchachoke Tells Thr. “I’m interested in socio-political Issues. SO, I TRIED TO Look at this Story Again and Look for What I Could Say About It. And I I WONDERED HOW Ghosts Wow. Like A Human Being To Earn A SALARY?
‘A Useful Ghost’ CourTesy of Critics’ Week
The Movie Is Also A Plea to not Sweep the Past Under the Carpet. “In Thailand, there is so Much History of Small People That Gets Forgotten,” Shares Boonbunchachachoke. “People of FTEn Try to Stay Away from or Exercise Ghosts, As if Trying to Erase a Disturbing Past. But We Should Maybe Talk More About the Past and About this marginalazed. A More Malicious Form.
Shooting the Scenes with the Vacuum Took All Sorts of Planning. “We have Two Models of the Vacuum Cleaner,“ The Director Explans. “One Had A MOROR INSIDE SO THAT WE COURCK [or not]. But Movements of the Hose Needed to Be Manually Handled by Three People, and THEN WE DELETED THAT IN POST-POSTUATION. ”
The Choice of the Vacuum Came to Boonbunchachachoke as he kept Developing the story. “Initially, I Thought She’d Appear as a Ghost in Human Form,“ HE RECALLS. “Normally, in cinema, People Visualize Ghosts in Different Forms. They Just Float AROUND OR DON’T’T have feet. Or they appet Through their voice.
He Ended Up Liking The Idea That Ghost Could Be in A Piece of Furniture or Electric Appliance. “The Choice of the Vacuum Cleaner is Related to A Very Thai Context,“ Boonbunchachachoke Explans. “Dust Pollution is Real in Thailand. People have been Talking about it for 10 years or so. But ‘Dust’ ALSO HAS ANOTHER MEANING IN [Thai] Slang. WHEN YOU CALL SOMEONE THAT, IT MEANS They INSIGNFICANT, LIKE DUST – SHE BE MOVED, SWEPT UP, Wiped Out by People With Power, With Authority. SO, IT MEANS A HUMAN WHO DOESN’T HAVE POWER TO Control Their Life. ”