当光影不再

2013年，曼谷最後一間獨資老戲院結束營業。從業25年的資深放映師頓時失業，轉向酒精及宗教尋求慰藉。濕溽的影像，膠卷、老戲院、時代變遷的光影輓歌。記憶洶湧宛如魑魅亂舞的廿年一覺電影夢，令人想起蔡明亮的《不散》。（台北電影節手冊） Once upon a time, cinema was mainstream entertainment in Thailand. Movie theaters in Thailand were the place where families hung out. 30 years ago, there were 140 standalone movie theaters in Bangkok. As time went by, old-fashioned movie theaters are forgotten. Most of them became second-class movie theater showing double feature or pornography and eventually closed down. Thonburi Rama is the last second class movie theater that opened until 2013 , when it had to close down. After the closure of Thonburirama, Rit, a projectionist who worked there for more than 25 years became a jobless person. His knowledge of film projecting became useless. He turned into an alcoholic and tried to study Dharma. Sometimes what he spoke were things that he mixed the reality with his own fantasy. Rit went back to his hometown where his wife and daughter owned a rubber plantation, but he felt that he didn’t fit in and lost all hope.