The Last Thai Executioner – An Emotional Movie, Well Worth Watching

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The Last Thai Executioner – An Emotional Movie, Well Worth Watching

 

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BANGKOK – Thai cinema certainly has come a long way, as production values have soared considerably over the years. As a result, quite a few Thai movies have earned kudos and accolades on the international film festival circuit, not to mention a slew of prestigious prizes. But hardly any other local feature film before it has been more impatiently anticipated.

 

The last executioner, Chavoret Jaruboon agreed with Director Tom Waller and Michael Pritchett to come out with an International feature film named – The Last Executioner.

 

The film tells the story of Chavoret Jaruboon, who over the course of his 19 years as Thailand’s official executioner dispatched 55 condemned inmates by machine-gun shots through their hearts before the country changed its execution method to lethal injection in 2003.

 

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-- © Copyright Chiang Rai Times 2016-12-06

[thai3]

Few years old now, hardly new.

[Tchooptip]

Refreshing scenario 

[hdkane]

Yes, it's a bit old...also difficult to find, if one wishes to download...but it is pretty good, and has some funny moments that Ricky Gervais would love...in one scene, being Thailand, the officers struggle to operate the gun, with the soon-to-be  executed just watching...perhaps hoping that they will just say, "forget it"... 

[Khon Kaen Dave]

I watched it on tv about a month ago.Compared to American,UK,European cinema it was still a bit behind the times cinematography wise.However i found it horrendous in some parts,especially where the executioner fails to dispatch the male at a double execution and brings the female into the death chamber whilst the previous guy is still writhing around on the floor,in agony.She is simply tied to the wooden pole and shot.And the other one is shot after.In other,modern, countries where execution has been the method of death,i think that scenario would have been handled in a far more professional manner.

But i suppose its better than the method they used up until 1934,where the executioner did a little dance and cut off the prisoners head with a sword. Or is it?

[Ralf61]

Never seen a Thai service guy with an AK47 before...

[slapout]

The book was a good read. I have seldom been impressed with a movie after reading the novel, so I did not bother going to the movie house.

[Lokie]

Read the book a few years ago and thought it was quiet good giving an insight into his mindset and the goings on of the then penal/punishment system.

 

 As a side was there ever any film or TV movie based on the aussie's book 'The Damage Done' now that was a good read and after reading it I would not think anyone would want to end up in the Thai penal system...

[Grubster]

13 minutes ago, Lokie said:

Read the book a few years ago and thought it was quiet good giving an insight into his mindset and the goings on of the then penal/punishment system.

 

 As a side was there ever any film or TV movie based on the aussie's book 'The Damage Done' now that was a good read and after reading it I would not think anyone would want to end up in the Thai penal system...

I will want to read ""the damage done".  Thanks for that.

[Thechook]

Don't think so.  I have seen the pitiful acting on T.V and the scripts are nothing but yelling and screaming.  30 seconds of watching a thai performance is enough to make anyone commit suicide.

[tukkytuktuk]

23 hours ago, Grubster said:

I will want to read ""the damage done".  Thanks for that.

 

The Damage Done by Warren Fellows

Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison

The Bestselling True Story of Brutality and Terror Behind Bars

In 1978 Warren Fellows, Paul Hayward and William Sinclair were convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Bangkok's notorious Bang Kwang men's prison, the Bangkok Hilton. It was the beginning of twelve years of hell for Warren Fellows.

The Damage Done takes you behind the bars of a Bangkok prison. A place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, where autocratic prison guards giggle as they deliver pulverising blows and where the worst punishment by far is the khun deo - solitary confinement, Thai style.

Brutally honest and repentant of his initial crime, Warren talks about the decade of his life he lost in leg irons. The Damage Done is a brave and compelling book that poses harrowing questions on the nature of justice.

'This is a not a book for the fainthearted. The reader will be repulsed yet magnetised by the contents of Fellow's book' Herald Sun

'... a solid story of pure misery that addresses you directly, like a man pouring out his heart in your living room' Sunday Age

[bannork]

3 hours ago, tukkytuktuk said:

 

The Damage Done by Warren Fellows

Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison

The Bestselling True Story of Brutality and Terror Behind Bars

In 1978 Warren Fellows, Paul Hayward and William Sinclair were convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Bangkok's notorious Bang Kwang men's prison, the Bangkok Hilton. It was the beginning of twelve years of hell for Warren Fellows.

The Damage Done takes you behind the bars of a Bangkok prison. A place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, where autocratic prison guards giggle as they deliver pulverising blows and where the worst punishment by far is the khun deo - solitary confinement, Thai style.

Brutally honest and repentant of his initial crime, Warren talks about the decade of his life he lost in leg irons. The Damage Done is a brave and compelling book that poses harrowing questions on the nature of justice.

'This is a not a book for the fainthearted. The reader will be repulsed yet magnetised by the contents of Fellow's book' Herald Sun

'... a solid story of pure misery that addresses you directly, like a man pouring out his heart in your living room' Sunday Age

Warren, is that you? Ow ya goin?