
The first fiction feature by Santi Taepanich collages the experiences of four residents of Bangkok whose lives are lived at night. They include a world-weary call-boy played by Ananda Everingham. This non-linear tale explores the lives of those affected by urban living, and set as a jet descends for landing and flocks of birds begin their migratory flight. The characters include a shady night-market merchant, a rent boy, and the latter’s pregnant girlfriend.
I was able to watch the gleefully mesmerizing Disney remake that was Robert Zemeckis’ Pinocchio. I was enthralled by Zemeckis’ iteration.
"Be good. It doesn’t mean you can’t be tough. It doesn’t mean you always have to be nice. Just be good."
A direct fall into the white savior narrative
Ultimately the problem with The Bubble is that it plays everything for laughs to get around the audience’s defenses. But it comes off like a privileged white male thinking that ridiculing everyone else equally is the road to equality. And it’s not. And it's definitely not funny to pretend that it is.