Adventure/romance about an English backpacker whose world falls apart when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful girl on an exotic Thai island.Adventure/romance about an English backpacker whose world falls apart when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful girl on an exotic Thai island.Adventure/romance about an English backpacker whose world falls apart when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful girl on an exotic Thai island.
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- 2 wins & 1 nomination
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- (as Napakpapha 'Mamee' Nakprasitte)
- Captain Mekong
- (as Thumnoon 'Manu' Intapirat)
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Adam: Show me where this is, please.
local: In a Thai, she points in the direction he has driven from.
Adam: Is it not this way?
local: She confirms that the village is back the way he came.
local: Another local reads out the address on the scrap of paper, adding to Adam's frustration.
Adam: Can anyone here, speak English?
The first sign of success is that to a large extent Butterfly Man feels like a transparent home movie made by Adam (Stuart Laing). The film somewhat vacillates between a rough travelogue, almost ala "Globe Trekker" (which happens to be my favorite travel series of all time), and a more normal narrative. It's an iffy mixture that ends up working quite well here. It also affords a stronger immersion in Thailand as a foreign culture, which is very important to the plot.
Because the film begins more like a travelogue with a thin dramatic overlay, it's something of a surprise as it turns into a "hell-in-a-handbasket" film with a well-constructed thriller plot. Unfortunately, this is a case where a fat budget would have helped immensely, but writer/director Kaprice Kea and crew still do a more than decent job with the resources available. The ending is also notable for being very unusual, poetic and admirable. Fans of recent microbudget indies shouldn't miss this one and everyone else should check out five or six of the crappy recent micro-budget indies before coming back to some of the good ones like this film and Milk and Honey (2003).
- BrandtSponseller
- Jul 23, 2006
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- Пеперудата
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- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1