Butterfly and Flowers (1985)
Highlights the hardships faced by a boy who works selling popsicles at the local train station and forced by economic circumstance to smuggle rice across the Thai-Malaysian border.
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Perfectly adorable
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
For Poor Family, Muslim boy in Thai Southern, Hooyan has resigned from school. He was Ice Cream Seller for helping his father, but it ain't enough. One Day, he found a beautiful girl,Mimpee. For following her, he 's unlawful work and gang. They steal rice in the train. Hooyan choose the work for money, for family, and young brothers.,...and so he finds "how to be a good man is harder than" Adapt from good novel 's Nippan "Peesua and Dokmai"(Butterfly and Flower), The movie attempted to be Neo-realist style, but it has also melodrama style. However, Peesua and Dokmai is impressive Coming-of-Age movie, good casting for main character and all children in commercial cinema of Thailand.