Fact Or Fiction

[Mrbiggus]

Ted, a 46-year-old salesman from Wales, visits Thailand on business. After revelling in the carnal pleasures of Bangkok, he falls in love with Tip, a bar girl. They marry and start a new life in her poor, rural home. Ted soon finds he isn't alone. In Northeast Thailand marriage to foreign men has become an industry. Things soon sour for Ted. His money has disappeared much faster than he expected. No one seems to want him around the farm anymore. When Ted asks Tip if she loves him, she replies: "I can't eat or drink your love." Ted returns home destitute, having learned what his Thai wife already knew: without money you lose everything.

David Tucker studied psychology and worked in human services before coming to filmmaking relatively late in life. He began by making short documentaries for film festivals and for non-government organisations working in Asia. His desire to make My Thai Bride stemmed from a long-standing interest in the relationship between developed and developing worlds.

http://www.australiaatidfa.com/My-Thai-Bride.htm

[Beetlejuice]

So who done it?

Was it the butler?

[KeyserSoze01]

Everyone knows Colonel Mustard was schtooping the little harlot.

[mca]

When Ted asks Tip if she loves him, she replies: "I can't eat or drink your love."

She'd have to marry a German for that. A bit of the old "wind, rain and lava".

[CWMcMurray]

So will this documentary be shown at the Bangkok International Film Festival?

http://www.worldfilmbkk.com/

[janverbeem]

So in fact,Teds real name is David

[TommyDee]

pity no download links

[Mrbiggus]

More information

http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=D336FEB0-4BFF-4B74-AA88-B7C0D79EFB8C&tab=-

Volume ON

So you guys can sneer and make a mockery of.....

[F4UCorsair]

The pop up after post # 1 is for Thai Love Links?? The link is about a westerner being dudded by a Thai bride, and then up pops an ad for Thai brides.

Reaffirms what I think, when the money runs out, the love runs out too, but it seems there is no shortage of takers.

I think David, oops Ted, may be speaking from first hand experience

Edited November 15, 2011 by F4UCorsair

[Mrbiggus]

I was curious if this was a stereotype scenario of a film. A made up half baked corny story.

Well it's for real...It's a real live action documentary, so when it's released it might have some insight as to what many farang men post/ask on this forum about Thai women.

http://showreal.com.au/my-thai-bride/my-thai-bride-producers-directors-notes/

I was working in Khorat, a town in the Issan region of Thailand in 2006 when I met Ted. I had just rented a room in an apartment block where Ted was living. I was surprised to find someone like Ted in a poor, unfashionable part of Thailand.

Three weeks earlier Ted had separated from his Thai wife. He’d lost everything and didn’t have enough for an airfare home. There was no one at home who could bail him out and he was living on borrowed money.

[Berkshire]

I was curious if this was a stereotype scenario of a film. A made up half baked corny story.

Well it's for real...It's a real live action documentary, so when it's released it might have some insight as to what many farang men post/ask on this forum about Thai women.

http://showreal.com....irectors-notes/

I was working in Khorat, a town in the Issan region of Thailand in 2006 when I met Ted. I had just rented a room in an apartment block where Ted was living. I was surprised to find someone like Ted in a poor, unfashionable part of Thailand.

Three weeks earlier Ted had separated from his Thai wife. He'd lost everything and didn't have enough for an airfare home. There was no one at home who could bail him out and he was living on borrowed money.

I would love to see the whole film. At first, like you, I thought it'd be a typical smear campaign with a one-sided perspective. But it "appears" to be a documentary from two sides, both him and her. That would be ground-breaking, if you will, considering the sort of stuff that we read on English-speaking Thai forums.

[remy1960]

I was curious if this was a stereotype scenario of a film. A made up half baked corny story.

Well it's for real...It's a real live action documentary, so when it's released it might have some insight as to what many farang men post/ask on this forum about Thai women.

http://showreal.com....irectors-notes/

I was working in Khorat, a town in the Issan region of Thailand in 2006 when I met Ted. I had just rented a room in an apartment block where Ted was living. I was surprised to find someone like Ted in a poor, unfashionable part of Thailand.

Three weeks earlier Ted had separated from his Thai wife. He'd lost everything and didn't have enough for an airfare home. There was no one at home who could bail him out and he was living on borrowed money.

I would love to see the whole film. At first, like you, I thought it'd be a typical smear campaign with a one-sided perspective. But it "appears" to be a documentary from two sides, both him and her. That would be ground-breaking, if you will, considering the sort of stuff that we read on English-speaking Thai forums.

Sounds very much like a filmed version of 'Private Dancer', although set in Bangkok, tells the story not only from both sides, but also that of their mates.

[taninthai]

Ted, a 46-year-old salesman from Wales, visits Thailandr on business. After revelling in the carnal pleasures of Bangkok, ddsryfbnetjdehe falls in love with Tip, a bar girl. They marry and start a new life in her poor, rural home. Ted soon finds he isn't alone. In Northeast Thailand marriage to foreign men has become an industry. Things soon sour for Ted. His money has disappeared much faster than he expected. No one seems to want him around the farm anymore. When Ted asks Tip if she loves him, she replies: "I can't eat or drink your love." Ted returns home destitute, having learned what his Thai wife already knew: without money you lose everything.

David Tucker studied psychology and worked in human services before coming to filmmaking relatively late in life. He began by making short documentaries for film festivals and for non-government organisations working in Asia. His desire to make My Thai Bride stemmed from a long-standing interest in the relationship between developed and developing worlds.

http://www.australiaatidfa.com/My-Thai-Bride.htm

[kdadane]

Get outta here. Whaaa-Whaaa.. No money - No honey is simply a way of life all over, even back in the good ole US of A. What do you expect her to do when the money runs out ????? Remember - memories are 4 ever.

[Travel2003]

Would like to see that movie.

Anyone knows how to download?

Anyhow, it always puzzles me when I hear about someone's money ran out.

I guess Im one of those that always need to have something saved for a rainy day.

[Mrbiggus]

Well this documentary is out on the torrent sites just google "My Thai Bride torrent"

English: MY THAI BRIDE.Ted is a 46 year-old salesman from Wales. He is divorced, feels marginalised by middle age and is tired of life in the ‘nanny state’. Ted is a frequent visitor to Thailand as a result of his job in an import business. He revels in the freedom he finds in a country where everything is for sale at the right price; including the beautiful young women who want to be with him.Ted meets Tip who is working in the Rooster Bar. She is in her mid thirties, from the northeastern Issan region, the poorest part of Thailand. Like many Issan women, Tip is uneducated and could never earn enough to own her house or educate her child. She hates the thought of her daughter growing up to be involved in prostitution. When she meets Ted, she thinks she has finally found a foreigner who will take care of her and her daughter.Ted returns to the UK, but stays in contact with Tip by telephone. He sends her money so she can give up her bar job and return to her family’s farm in her village, Krasang. After a few months, at Tip’s request, Ted returns to Thailand and marries her. Ted liquidates his assets in Wales and sinks his money into building a house and piggery on Tip’s family farm.He soon discovers there are many other foreign men who have married and settled in northeast Thailand. For many Issan women, marriage to a foreigner provides a way out of debt and a lifetime of difficult work. In northeast Thailand, marriage to a foreigner has become an industry. John, an Australian, says that there are about 90 foreigners living within a five-kilometre radius and that new foreigners arrive every week. Larry, an American, built his wife a large, luxurious house in Krasang. Larry believes she does love him, even though she tells him she doesn’t. Grant’s wife Pon says that when she took Grant home to Krasang, her friends and relatives all came over to her house to see the foreigner, because they couldn’t believe she got one.Within 12 months, Ted’s hopes for a better life have been dashed. His money has disappeared much faster than he expected. Tip and her family don’t seem to want him around the farm anymore. When Ted asks Tip if she loves him, she says: “I can’t eat or drink your love.” Ted leaves the farm destitute and wonders whether it had been a con all along. Ted rents a room in a nearby town. After surviving on credit for several months, Ted begs Tip to give him some of his money back. But she is only willing to buy him a one-way ticket back to the UK.Economically, Ted and Tip have traded places and Ted has learned what his Thai wife already knew: without money, you lose everything. My Thai Bride is about the power of money to save and destroy – and the harm that ensues when people are reduced to commodities. While there have been other films about prostitution in Thailand, My Thai Bride explores the lesser known story of the foreign marriage industry and the consequences for the men and women involved.        

[HardenedSoul]

There's another thread on here about that very same documentary. I tried finding it but just loads of links to dodgy torrent sites asking for credit card details. It was also available to watch on a Canadian TV channel via their version of something like the BBC's iPlayer but you needed to be

in Canada.

TBH, it seems like the film maker is doing his level best to stop people watching it.

[SeaVisionBurma]

18 month old thread - bad formatting in the OP - CLOSED