Photo: Aditya Assarat's Wonderful Town
It's easy to write a poem like those of ex-poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Louise Glück. Start with a vague description of nature, with some animal-vegetable-mineral or another "swimming" or "bristling," followed by some statement that the poet, too, has had recognizable emotions, followed by a totally impersonal personal anecdote from a Lands End catalogue, and finish with some intimation that all men must die. With the completely useless Wonderful Town, Aditya Assarat announces himself as Glück's Thai cinematic heir, an ambitious hack barely imaginative enough to even indicate his ambition. David Pratt-Robson
It's easy to write a poem like those of ex-poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Louise Glück. Start with a vague description of nature, with some animal-vegetable-mineral or another "swimming" or "bristling," followed by some statement that the poet, too, has had recognizable emotions, followed by a totally impersonal personal anecdote from a Lands End catalogue, and finish with some intimation that all men must die. With the completely useless Wonderful Town, Aditya Assarat announces himself as Glück's Thai cinematic heir, an ambitious hack barely imaginative enough to even indicate his ambition. David Pratt-Robson
