อานนเป็นนักเรียนตัวอย่าง - Arnon pen nakrian tuayang

A film by Sorayos Prapapan.Thailand. 2022. 1h23. 2K. Color.
With Yanin Pongsuwan, Winyu Wongsurawat, Niramon Busapavanich.
 

Arnon is a brilliant student living in Bangkok. His school is one of the best in the country, and bribes to get in are commonplace.

One day, he meets Bee a young delinquent who has set up a system that allows students to cheat on their entrance exams in exchange for a certain amount of money. Bee asks for his help and promises quick and easy money. Although initially skeptical, Arnon joins him and discovers the world of corruption in Thailand.

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Comedy as a subversive and deeply political tool.

Through the observation of the triumphs and misdeeds of Arnon, an exceptionally gifted high school student, the film offers a critique of Thailand's authoritarian society. By choosing the school world to tell this story, Arnon bears witness to the fact that all forms of propaganda begin when children are in their formative years, still very vulnerable to outside influences.

The eponymous character fits neither the stereotype of the typical high school rebel nor that of the nerd. He's intelligent, has won a medal in international academic competitions, is not very talkative, disobedient and very mysterious.

The film, like its characters, acts as a mirror, inspired by the Student Survival Manual, a document published in 2020 by the Thai student movement Bad Student to challenge their country's education system, Arnon is a bold manifesto.

Speaker: Nicolas Barcikowsky