Ghosts, spirits and Thailand's award-winning film director

Not many winners of the Cannes Film Festival Palm d'Or thank ghosts and spirits in their acceptance speech.

But for Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand's first ever winner of the film award, it was a natural thing to do.

It was kind of an joke. At the same situation, I think ["Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives"] is about [a person] who believes in spirits, in reincarnation so I kind of thank him for it because he might have been there," by Apichatpong to CNN.

The award is came very fast. Mr. Weerasethakul who has life is good successful. In 2004 he had won Jury Prize for Tropical Malady. He didn't think that he will win a big prize.

Before he winning the prize he think as his self that he not gonna win because Tim Burton was head to get the Jury Prize. But when he actually won the Prize he thought a different way that maybe because Tim Burton has always created his own wacky world and also my film operates in my own world, and it's quite a nutty one.

The "nutty world" of "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" has a lead character (played by a real-life roof welder) who talks to spirits and ghosts as he faces the last days of this life.

He won a few battles against the film Inspector and help to establish a rating system for films in Thailand, but Weerasethakul still believes the need to speak out against limits to freedom of speech.

In my opinion it was a good news for Thai people to see one of the Thai man wins the film award and not many people can wins this prize from around the world. He can be the one that can shows and give information to another generation who want to be a film director.

Credit:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/21/apichatpong.weerasethakul/index.html#fbid=Tf2mM4RPbau