Citizen Dog

When young Pod escapes his boring rural life, his grandmother curses him, saying he'll grow a tail in Bangkok. Pod finds a job in an anchovy factory, where a machine cuts off his finger. Pod searches through thousands of anchovy cans until he finds one with a finger stuck in it. It fits him—not quite.


A little later, he falls in love with the young Jin, who is reading a white book whose language she doesn't understand. When Jin sees a man reading the same white book, she believes him to be an environmentalist who was shot at a demonstration in Washington. She begins collecting thousands of plastic bottles, which she piles up outside the city.


Pod becomes a taxi driver because Jin confesses to him that she has a phobia of taking buses. In the taxi, he encounters a chain-smoking toddler with a rude teddy bear and a gecko who is the reincarnation of his grandmother. And at some point, it turns out that the white book is an Italian homoerotic romance novel. Disappointed, Jin throws it away and marries Pod. The mountain of plastic bottles has now grown enormously and has become a meeting place for romantic couples. Jin and Pod are expecting a child. Pod is convinced that the child will be the reincarnation of his grandmother. The world is spinning in circles.

Citizen Dog (Ma Nakhon)

Wisit Sasanatieng, Thailand 2004, 100 min, color, English subtitles

• Admission and participation free
  
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