One of my all time favorites.

Best movie of this year hands down!

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

About one year ago I watched the first 40 minutes, I think, of this film and I liked but it was after midnight so I was tired and this film was a complete "knock out". But I always remembered the images of Tadanobu Asano's character in the first part of the film and I really have desires of watch the film so finally last week I have the chance to get the DVD and finally watch it.In the 30 minutes introduction of the story, we can see the behavior and some of the thoughts of Kenji (Tadanobu Asano), a Japanese man living and wanting to die in Bangkok, Thailand. He is extremely tidy and extremely clean, spending his time working in a library, reading and thinking in his suicide but the reasons of why he wants to be dead are not the common, like he says, like money problems or a failed relation. He has a strange and mysterious view to dead but suddenly he is witness of the dead of Nid (Laila Boonyasak), the little sister of Noi (Sinitta Boonyasak) and he enters in the life of Noi, having a strange but strong friendship with her.I really enjoyed and loved this strange film. I say strange because it actually begins after 30 minutes of introduction and because it has many bizarre scenes. The first part is full of the poetry that Kenji relates to dead and the thoughts of the lizard from Kenji's book feels like another thought of the same Kenji. Also in that part we can see the relation between Kenji and his brother Yukio (Yutaka Matsushige) who is a Yakuza that looks Kenji just as a crazy man. When he enters in the life of Noi everything is different because both are really different from each other, even in the feelings about losing a brother/sister. The end is strange because we can see that Kenji and Noi build a great friendship but also that Kenji is in danger because of the Yakuzas.Anyway, the cast is superb with an amazing performance of Tadanobu Asano. I have only watched him in a main role in other film, "Ichi the Killer", and this role is very different but both performances are amazing. The sisters Boonyasak are great and the support cast is very little but has the funny performance of the great Takashi Miike. It was so great to see Miike as a Yakuza and also the detail of the poster of "Ichi the Killer" with Kakihara is great.Conclusion: I love this film that was my introduction to the work of Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. I recommend this beautiful film to any fan of Jim Jarmusch because Pen-Ek Ratanaruang has all of his influence and because is just great.

I am a fan of European and Asian films. I taped this movie on my video to enjoy it during my day off. I was excited and maybe expecting a lot out of it. But, it turn out to be 2 hours of dullness.It starts and the expectations are high. It gives you a pick when the main character experience a murder in his on house and makes another one tho save his life. This is the part where I was expecting the character to change dramatically. The plot up to that point is great, but then the character can not remain the same and start a "love" story! The character should have start feeling things like guilt maybe or whatever to change his view of things, his philosophy of the world, his ego and so on.The movie had great potential and manage to spoil it by showing us the last "love" in the universe. Even this could have been done in a better way. How the hell someone murder and then goes on with his life and get happy because he gets a new "old car" and on and on...Unfortunately the movie is 3 out of 10 And my afternoon was destroyed...

I probably should not have watched this at 2am. I woke from my sleep and was looking for something interesting. Despite a noise inside my head calling me to go back to bed, I was entranced at the story unfolding before me.Tadanobu Asano, who I last saw in Zatôichi, was captivating as a suicidal Japanese man living in Bangkock. He is an obsessive-compulsive on the order of Monk. He crosses paths with Sinitta Boonyasak in her first film. Her house is reminiscent of writers Iris Murdoch and John Bayley in it's proportion of slovenliness. They barely manage to communicate as she is barely conversant in Japanese and he in Thai.We watch them as they try to communicate and share their tragedies in common. Both recently lost siblings. It is a Lost in Translation type of movie brilliantly done by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. She smokes while he cleans and is in the background. Somehow they manage to help each other through their pain.I know I will have to watch this again as I was not fully awake. I look forward to that experience.

Last Life in the Universe is slow-going movie and it's shoot elegant. Very good narrated story. The movie is realistic - represents the modern Thai reality and the human relations with all the blemishes. The camera movements give to the plot more ethereality. There is close-ups (not only) shoot from extreme angle. Also was use tilted camera which helps to dramaturgy of the movie. There is a harmony between the music (just one continuous melody) and the camera movements which follows the story. Mostly shoot indoor, the lightning reproduce the feeling of claustrophobia, but at the same time something tell us that there is some good end: the love gives hope! The characters of the two are so different one from another, but they are both lonely - he just recognize it.