Featuring a mix of archival footage and talking-head interviews, "Paradoxocracy" covers such topics as the transition from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy in the 1930s, the pro-democracy demonstrations and violent crackdowns of the 1970s and "Black May" in 1992 to the rise of the "ice cream man", Thaksin Shinawatra. 　　Interviewees include historian and 1970s student leader Thongchai Wanichakul and historian and former Thammasat University rector Charnvit Kasetsiri. There's also chulalongkorn University academic Chaiyan Chaiyaporn, who was arrested after ripping up his ballot in the 2006 election, red-shirt activist Sombat Boon-ngam-anong and former student activist and SEA Write Award-winner Jiranan Pitpreecha, who fled to the jungle in the '70s. And Thammasat Unversity academic Worajet Pakeerat of the Nitirat Group appears. He's the guy who was physically assaulted for his group's opposing views of Article 112, the royal-insult law.

Two strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11.

Two strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11.

这个警示性的故事献给民主危机时代，本片融合了个人视角和政治题材，探索了巴西历史上最戏剧性的时期之一。 片中既有对前任和现任领导者前所未有的近距离访问，包括迪尔玛·罗塞夫和卢拉·达席尔瓦总统；也有导演自家复杂的政治和商业过往，电影制作人佩特拉·科斯塔（《伊莲娜》）带观众见证了他们的起起落落，以及所留下的这个极度两极分化的国家。

这个警示性的故事献给民主危机时代，本片融合了个人视角和政治题材，探索了巴西历史上最戏剧性的时期之一。 片中既有对前任和现任领导者前所未有的近距离访问，包括迪尔玛·罗塞夫和卢拉·达席尔瓦总统；也有导演自家复杂的政治和商业过往，电影制作人佩特拉·科斯塔（《伊莲娜》）带观众见证了他们的起起落落，以及所留下的这个极度两极分化的国家。

巴西曾一度因军事独裁而陷于瘫痪。在1985年，巴西建立了民主基础。在2002年，巴西选举出了一位非常受欢迎的政治颠覆者：钢铁工人转为活动家路易斯·伊纳…

This experimental Filipino movie is far from a total success, but at least its in-your-face strangeness will make it somewhat interesting for those interested in seeing films of a different sort. The start is akin to a test of endurance for cinephiles, as the camera stands still showing nothing but a couple sleeping in the floor of a hut for the first 15 minutes (I'm not making this up, I looked at my watch). Eventually, the woman, who is unable to sleep, wakes up the man at her side, telling him to tell her a story so she can sleep. He complies with a rambling monologue about the suffering of the Filipino people. The film then moves on to the better second part, where fake footage in the style of silent movies is shown. This shows life in the Philippines supposedly during the end of the colonial period through a series of vignettes. These vignettes are mildly humorous (one shows a number of children looking at an eclipse with gaping mouths). Eventually, something akin to a story comes out of the movie, as revolutionaries meet to plan rebellion from Spanish rule. It's hard to compare this movie with other films, though its fetishism of silent movies recalls the work of Guy Maddin. I found it also reminiscent of a better movie, "Moeder Dao" in which real documentary footage of colonial life in Indonesia was shown.

This experimental Filipino movie is far from a total success, but at least its in-your-face strangeness will make it somewhat interesting for those interested in seeing films of a different sort. The start is akin to a test of endurance for cinephiles, as the camera stands still showing nothing but a couple sleeping in the floor of a hut for the first 15 minutes (I'm not making this up, I looked at my watch). Eventually, the woman, who is unable to sleep, wakes up the man at her side, telling him to tell her a story so she can sleep. He complies with a rambling monologue about the suffering of the Filipino people. The film then moves on to the better second part, where fake footage in the style of silent movies is shown. This shows life in the Philippines supposedly during the end of the colonial period through a series of vignettes. These vignettes are mildly humorous (one shows a number of children looking at an eclipse with gaping mouths). Eventually, something akin to a story comes out of the movie, as revolutionaries meet to plan rebellion from Spanish rule. It's hard to compare this movie with other films, though its fetishism of silent movies recalls the work of Guy Maddin. I found it also reminiscent of a better movie, "Moeder Dao" in which real documentary footage of colonial life in Indonesia was shown.