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
