A notorious crime boss is heartbroken when his girlfriend, Zin (Ammara Siripong) leaves him for his nemesis. If he can’t have her, then no one else can as he threatens to kill them both if they are seen or contact each other again. Painfully, the couple goes their separate ways leaving Zin pregnant. Sometime later, she gives birth to Zen (Yanin Vismistananda), who is autistic and has a hard time functioning properly. Little did Zin and the doctors know that what she lacks in brains, she gains in skill as she teaches herself martial arts through movies, video games and a group practice outside of her house. Zen develops cancer and can’t pay for her medicine. A boy she adopted awhile ago, Moom, finds Zin’s book of people that owe her money from when she was in the gang. Zen uses her skills to get the money from the contacts which cause a stir and the notorious crime boss must intervene. What will happen to Zin? Will the boss kill Zen for disturbing his business? Will the father come save them both?
Review:
Three words, one punctuation mark: she is awesome! Yanin is such a fantastic martial arts fighter and she did all of the stunts herself. It is nice to see a female actor not afraid of seriously getting hurt for the good of the film. I’ve seen plenty of foreign martial arts film and usually the fighting is the best part because the story is not good. I love the story line in this film; it was compassionate, fearful, exciting, sad and hopeful. Because of Zin’s autistic behavior, she seems so out of it like she is in her own tortuous mental world until it is time to fight and then she turns into non-stop fighting machine. Koodos, to Yanin for doing a great job with the role; she pulled me into her world every minute of the film. The other characters did a great job as well, very entertaining. All in all, I have seen this film about six times and want to see it again. Great movie!!