The Land {Kraj} เดอะ แลนด์ (2021) [บรรยายไทย]

Watching this film somehow reminds you of the style Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos uses in his story, especially in the 2015 film The Lobster. The story feels absurd but necessary and relatable. At times you’d laugh at the wrong instances and find it offensive that you just laughed, maybe at someone being murdered or abused. But that is the fun of the absurdity in this film, that it never hits your moral but simply adds the satire it represents in your life.

We meet six different people, whose names are never so explicitly mentioned. These people/families include- a police general fed up with reckless driving, a man on parole who is unable to protect his daughter from a kidnapper, a family hit with a tax raid, an art exhibitioner whose boudoir art forms are disrespected, a family with a tenant who won’t pay the rent or leave and husbands with wives who are unfaithful. Our characters are put in difficult situations, which seemingly can be sorted without gore and bloodshed. However, the incidents they encounter reach them at a critical time when the lid is about to blow.