Product Details

• Actors: Sirirat Rapsithorn
• Directors: Jordan Clark
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: High Banks Entertainment Ltd. & CBC Newsworld
• DVD Release Date: December 21, 2006
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000MCIANA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,665 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Bangkok Girl : A Documentary about Thailand's Night Life" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pla is a star - the filmmaker not so much., November 29, 2010

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Austin C. Beeman (Maumee, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bangkok Girl : A Documentary about Thailand's Night Life (DVD)

This short documentary tries to be a grand expose of the Bangkok Sex Trade, but the filmmaker doesn't have nearly the expertise or gravitas to pull this off. Where the movie really succeeds is in the personal charisma of its 'leading lady' Pla. She exudes real charisma and absolutely lights up the screen. She deserves a much better movie.

However, if you understand what this is, "An Ultra-Low Budget Indie Documentary" you'll enjoy it. Worth trying out.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pathetic, October 3, 2011

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D. M. Wagner (Sunbury, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bangkok Girl : A Documentary about Thailand's Night Life (DVD)

Amazon should make an exception and allow Zero stars for this "documentary." The director/film maker/narrator will make you want to claw your ears off. He had no clue about his topic in particular, nor Thailand in general. This video is really not worth my time to type a review of, much less watch. It's free on netflix, but even that is too much.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where has Pla gone..., August 2, 2011

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NYBill - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bangkok Girl : A Documentary about Thailand's Night Life (DVD)

This is not a documentary. It is a home video of a girl in Bangkock,Thailand. As a movie,anyone could rip it apart with ease. The "cinematography" is equal to the ability of anyone with a camera. The purpose of this thing was supposedly to get an understanding of the sex trade in Thailand. However,at one point Clark is sharing a taxi with two, possibly three, prostitutes, he never speaks to any of them...not one question. This so called film maker is irrelevant because this movie is all about a girl named Pla, a girl with a magical personality. Pla is her "street name", and it means fish. Her real name is Sirirat Rapsithorn. I would like to introduce you all to Sirirat Rapsithorn but I have never met her,even so,she is my friend. I care about her and unfortunately, I will never get the chance to meet her.
Without Pla, this video is just someone's tedious vacation home movie;
with Pla, it becomes a revealing look into the emotional pain of another human being that grabs at your psyche. Her openness, her honesty and her sometimes funny, vulnerability will surprise you; like when she is "attacked" by a cat!!
Most of all there is the heavy pall of fatalism hanging over Pla as she seems to have an epiphanic view of her life and future,right in front of the camera.

Pla said, "Everyone have story....Me too,have story,...but,ah,..nobody care about me...yeah,true. But,it's OK,..never mind".

Look into her eyes, listen to her voice, listen to her story and be moved. Watch her face as she tells of her childhood while she watches some children at play. Listen to the horror that was a part of her own childhood and you will get a glimpse of the truth about her life. She never actually verbalizes it,but listening to what she says,you know being a child with a deformity,she was teased and rejected by her peers. You get it by listening to her...she says, "You know before, I am same everybody,after I have accident,I not same! In many countries any woman with an imperfection is tantamount to being "damaged goods". That goes back to the days of dowry payments when a woman with a defect fetched a smaller dowry.
All one has to do is LISTEN...her English is limited so there are no euphemisms or metaphors to cloud the issue. Her words her eyes and her body language are all that she has and they speak loudly, if you listen. SPOILER ALERT: She is so adept at hiding her hand because she has been hiding it since she was a very small child,you don't notice it until it is mentioned by Clark! She hides it because in her world, it is something to be ashamed of!
END SPOILER.

At the end of this movie, you might hate it or possibly wonder if you have been conned and simply dismiss the whole thing; or then again, you might just hope it is a con. One thing for sure,you will feel something, even if it's only a loathing for that cloddish Austrailian clown at the end of the vid. This bozo gives bozos a bad name. Mr. Clark doesn't come out looking too good in this scene either.I am going to record the movie and delete that Bozo Aussie. My blood pressure goes up and my heart beats too fast each time I see his scene.

There is a short encounter with a tranny street prostitute named "Jennifer" who is a real eccentric character;a piece of work,to say the least. (She has breast implants, but "still has IT"!! As she will proudly announce.) It's amazing to watch as "her" mind switches back and forth between "business and normal conversation." I wonder if "she" is still around and is doing well? I'd like to think she is well and healthy.
Jordan Clark has certainly missed the boat as a "documentarian" for a second time because the REAL story begins at the end of this 40 minute minimovie. He could have called part two "Where's Pla?" I can't help but wonder why he didn't investigate a bit more by at least talking to her mother. How can anyone go to Thailand to do a documentary on prostitution and come back with a scant 40 minutes of material, none of which deals with the declared purpose of the video? I think Mr.Clark has pulled one over on the Tax man. Take a small amount of film and call your vacation a work related tax write off. It is strange to hear a Buddhist exclaim, Oh,My Buddha!and I am not at all religious,however,Pla seemed to be,so I stopped at a Buddhist temple and lit some Joss sticks to help guide her.

Without Pla this video would have rated only a ho-hum one star rating. (Jennifer was a hoot and worth a star.) Clark should have hung out with Jennifer for a while,I'll bet "she" could fill a book with what "she" knows about "the Life"!...40 minutes just doesn't cut it! Anyway, I gave it five stars just because of Pla.... Thank You,Pla, We miss you.