La Longue Marche

First time watch a Laos movie. The topic is quite interesting with the spirit and time travel. The most important it's quite scary and lots of questioning what actually is happening during the movie.

I recently watched the Laos movie 🇱🇦 The Long Walk (2019) on Shudder. The storyline follows a little boy as he discovers that he has a unique gift to see dead people who help him in life and he also helps them in the afterlife. We also see the boy 50 years in the future who has now mastered his powers. He uses his skills to return back in time to when his mother passed away that changed his life forever.

This picture is directed by Mattie Do (My Dearest Sister) and stars Yannawoutthi Chanthalungsy (Love Beyond Death), Vilouna Phetmany (The Signal), Por Silatsa, Noutnapha Soydara and Chanthamone Inoudome (Dearest Sister).

This movie is so well put together with fantastic character development, subplots and a methodically but perceptive fly executed storyline. This is a slow burn, which is the perfect way to team a story like this. The characters and their meaning within the overall premise is fascinating. This had a Sixth Sende vibe in a lot of ways without it being a secret in anyway...you just wait to see how the pieces of the puzzle fit together. Everything is obviously going to be sad, but you're still dying to know what happened and what's going to happen. The ending of this movie is so good.

In conclusion, Long Walk is a wonderful paranormal story about life, death, dedication triumph and peace...I really loved this movie. I would score this an 8.5/10 and strongly recommend it.

Since he was a small boy, a ghost of a woman killed in a road accident has visited the now elderly, isolated and, it turns out, sinister Laotian hermit living somewhat out of his depth in the technically advanced future. The ghost can take him back to his youth, where he meets his young self so that he can tutor the boy to help his mother relieve her suffering due to a painful terminally illness.

Beautifully photographed, definitely slow burn and frankly a bit tricky, this is an intriguing, very different ghost story with shades of science fiction which moves seamlessly between time periods avoiding a linear telling of the tale. This type of creative storytelling can be irritating and clunky, but here it works well in raising the tension to see how things will be resolved. It is from time to time also quite grisly and occasionally very moving. It does not though neatly tie everything together as much as perhaps some would like at the end, but it is a haunting experience and a film you won't forget.

This movie is a slow burn but well worth your time if you're in the mood for a contemplative and haunting experience.

There's a lot going on here and I won't give anything away, but suffice it to say there's a lot about guilt, duty, regret, family, and other universal human concerns here.

Don't expect gaping-faced ghosts and jump scares, this isn't that kind of film. This film is about the haunting that comes from what we do in life, how it reverberates, and whether, in the religion/spirituality of the film, those reverberations affect us and others in other lives.

You won't necessarily be scared, but if you give it a chance you might just be haunted by what the film reveals as it unfolds. The acting is great, and the lead actor is superb in the way he has a face that seems to elicit sympathy but also has a mystery to it, leaving the viewer wondering who he is deep inside. As the film progresses that question gets more and more difficult to answer.

My favourite part of the film was the recurring motif of walking a road. Will we ever find peace, or are we doomed to walk the same road for all of eternity?

One line will stay with me, when one character asks another about a ghost and where he seems to disappear to. - "I don't know where he goes." - Do any of us know where we go?

This film is more than a simple ghost story transcending time and space, it's a story of love and past regret that refuse to die and move on. Well done.