The Story of the X-Circle
Director:
Stars: Bongkot Kongmalai, Leo Put
Time: ? minutes
Year: 2004
This mildly distasteful film seems to serve
little purpose other than perhaps pushing the boundaries of what is allowed
as sexual content in Thai films (in particular ones that play in theaters
as opposed to the straight to video ones in which censorship seems more
lax). Thailand has been fairly conservative regarding nudity in films in
the past, but this appears to be going by the wayside very quickly. This
film has a number of female nude scenes as well as being completely awash
in perversely sexual behavior that aims to be amusing to some extent but
is so loaded down with non-stop crassness that it ends up being tedious
and leaving a bad taste in your mouth. Hey, I am as big a fan of masturbation
scenes as anyone, but by the umpteenth display of up and down hand motions
with guys moaning in distorted ecstasy even a good thing loses its rosy
luster.
There is a huge demand for pornography on the
streets of Bangkok apparently - especially of the hidden cam variety -
but it is not strictly legal and has gone underground. X-man (Leo Put)
is doing his best to supply these needs with material for their private
moments by secretly filming intimate moments of people. The cops are ineffectively
trying to crack down on this porno ring so they bring in their super weapon
- Bongkot Kongmalai (Bang Rajan, Kunpan) - to help them out. Bongkot is
certainly one of the more alluring females in Thai film today - sensually
voluptuous with deep set eyes, she brings the camera to a full halt at
times with her ample cleavage and blank but inviting stare. Acting talent
may not run deep in her blood but she nearly shimmers on the screen with
pent up sexuality.
A secret society of porno perverts has formed
and they meet in a dank basement to talk about their favorite stars and
scenes – kind of like a sports bar full of heterosexual males bonding over
their teams. They all unanimously decide that they want a hidden cam tape
of China – a top model with long legs and an engaging smile and they plead
with X-man to get one. He parks himself across from her building in an
abandoned construction site and waits for her to reveal herself and all
of a sudden all the members of the pervert society show up as well and
this leads to a mass masturbation scene that I didn’t really need to see.
Throw in some corrupt cops, a romance between X-man and Bongkot and the
daily lives of some of these perverts and you end up with an idiotic hodgepodge
of a film that just didn’t seem to know what it wanted to be other than
racy and controversial.
My rating for this film: 4.0
