ANATOMY OF TIME
A FILM BY JAKRAWAL NILTHAMRONG
PRODUCTION GRANT - SPRING 2019
Regional Thai town, 1960s. Tension from the Cold War was distantly rising as the country was ruled by a succession of field marshals. Mam was a young woman who was learning about life from her father, a philosophical clocksmith. She developed a relationship with two men: an ambitious calculating army chief and a kind-hearted but coward man she shares a difficult history with. Following a military power shift, the chief asked her to move away with him, as his career was taking off.
Bangkok, present day. The once-dashing army chief now ends up a disgraced general lying in a coma. Mam in her old age has been living with her abusive and deeply-troubled husband through hard times filled with losses, disappointments and betrayals. With her life now also approaching its end, she looks back at past regrets and sets to sacrifice herself and take care of him until their last days.