The movie, which opens this week, strives to connect many dots and to elevate the prosaic into the metaphorical as the microcosm of the characters gives way to the big picture _ so big that it includes, for the first time on the cinema screen, scenes of the convulsive red-shirt riots and a skilful reconstruction of the war zone that Bangkok briefly was in May 2010. Kongdej tackles the zeitgeist and the mind and the matter, the political and the personal, with the conclusion that they're all probably the same.