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
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: High Banks Entertainment Ltd. & CBC Newsworld
• DVD Release Date: December 21, 2006
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000MCIANA
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #39,827 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review
Bangkok Girl is the debut film from Canadian filmmaker Jordan Clark. While visiting in Bangkok a few years back, Clark quickly became enchanted with Thailand's exotic culture and fine-looking populace. However, he was also disturbed by the preponderance of Thai women who were forced to work as prostitutes, largely due to the lack of legitimate employment. In an attempt to better understand the foreigners who reveled in their defilement of these young girls, and the girls who allowed themselves to be defiled, Clark took his camera to some of the popular spots in Bangkok's seedy red-light district. In the midst of his research, Clark met Pla, a 19-year-old bar girl. Throughout this brief documentary, Pla serves as his guide through Bangkok. Initially she shows off the city's modern-looking railway system and a well-maintained public park. However, Clark does not seem very interested in Bangkok's infrastructure. He keeps his camera focused on the plucky and somewhat affected young lady. As Clark notes early on in a languid voiceover Pla's affable demeanor might all be an act. Indeed, one of the documentary's most intriguing aspects lies in trying to glean what horrors lie underneath Pla's seemingly carefree continence. Though all her female co-workers seem to be for sale, Pla insists not she does not take part in the sex trade. And though her denials defied common sense, I was still tempted to believe her, and was sadly disappointed when she went on a two-day foray with a foreign customer. Clark does an effective job helping us understand the larger context of Pla's situation, explaining how she has virtually no other opportunity to make money outside of selling herself. However, an increased understanding of Pla's situation does nothing to diminish the sorrow her situation inspires. In fact, Clark's interviews one with a loutish Brit, another with an assertive transsexual enhance our feelings of despondency. Bangkok Girl proves to be an effective, and moving, i --DVDVerdict.com

Product Description
Jordan Clark's tragic documentary provides a glimpse into Thailand's notorious and booming sex tourism industry through the experiences of a 19-year-old bar girl named Pla. Working in the bars from the age of thirteen, Pla has managed to avoid selling her body--a remarkable revelation given her surroundings--but her refusal to take part in this all-too-common profession for young Thai women cannot last. The introduction of falangs, or foreigners, to Thailand has forever changed the city, the economy, the Thai people's lives and desires. A daring and unabashed look at a popular Western predilection through the eyes of one girl, this film challenges the accepted worldwide practice of sex tourism.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is Bull, April 8, 2008

By	Derek Murray "Derek" (Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Pla seems 100 percent real
but the voiceover in the story seems 100 percent bull
The film Maker.
He seems to have filmed it with a handicam I bet the Katoeys and Pla had no idea they were taking part in a money making operation.

He even complains when he has to pay a small "fine" to the Thai police who could just as easily, put him in the local jail, confiscated his equipment permenantly and eventually deported him for working without the correct permits( i think they should have)
but i doubt it actually happened.

Pla and the other players probably thought he was just a tourist with a camera who, eventually, would actually, pay.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Clueless, stupid, maudlin, pathetic, May 8, 2009

By	Bangkok Expat - See all my reviews

A poorly made effort, one of the worst and most pointless so-called documentaries I have seen in my life. The filmmaker is obviously totally clueless in regard to his subject. In addition to that, his maudlin commentary makes the film even more unbearable. Over 45 minutes Clark is wallowing in clichés and stereotypes about Bangkok, Thai people and Bargirls, tormenting the viewers with his pointless, pathetic opinions on a subject he so obiously does not comprehend in any way.
I can only agree with a former review: a complete lack of any understanding or comprehension is all this film shows. Total BS from beginning to the end. So stupid and annoying, it makes you angry. Avoid this film at all cost.

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bangkok Girl , May 12, 2007

By	Michael Kent - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I cannot believe that with so deep a subject matter we can be presented with such a complete lack of any understanding or comprehension . To add to this the production itself is very poorly exhibited. I've seen holiday home video's of vastly more interest. Jordan Clark should get a job filming televangelists as punishment.
Regards Michael Kent.