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Film Review: Bad Genius (2017) -Thailand is South East Asia's Hollywood!

Updated: Aug 4, 2021

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FILE PHOTO: A Steel of BAD GENIUS (2017).  ©GDH 559
FILE PHOTO: A Still Image of BAD GENIUS (2017). ©GDH 559

This Thailand film is better than other Asian countries!

Cheating tests, this material of story-telling is successfully developed into the most impressive and exciting feature film ever made in Asia! The Three Act Structure is perfectly applied into this Thailand film! Act 1 is that Lynn and her friend Grace establishing cheating test business among her classmates. Act 2 is failure of the cheating test business due to exposure of Tong's suspected action on the paper test. That was caused by another test genius Bang who reported the chancellor of their school. At this moment, the entire conflict was established and easily grabbed. Point of No Return (MidPoint) is Pat's parent suggest Grace and their son, Pat to go to study abroad at Boston University. Then, they need to pass SAT. Lynn and Bang are involved by their business partners/clients Grace and Pat. At the end of Act 2, Bang fails at Australian university when he sends the answers of SAT back to Thailand for their clients to be ready for the test. Act 3 is that Lynn escapes from Australia but Bang is punished. Now Bang threatens her to join the next cheating test business. However, Lynn rejects it and confront the karma. Perfect! The most common and ordinary material is turned into the most cinematic narrative structure of genre film! Thailand film is rising and is going to be South East Asia's Hollywood! I did not even see this quality of film in Taiwan ever before. Thailand filmmakers did more prestigious work!

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