2011 · thriller · noir · thai
Headshot
Directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang1h 45m2011
A hitman named Tul is shot in the head during an assignment. When he wakes up from a two month coma Tul discovers that he literally sees everything upside down.
Our read: Headshot (2011) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive thriller · noir · thai entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured thriller / noir, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
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