13 Beloved review

Pusit, a down on his luck, incredibly in debt salesman, has just lost his job. Wondering how he’ll be able to repay the money he owes, a strange phone call offers him a chance to win up to one hundred million Baht if he completes a series of thirteen tasks. The tasks start off benign: catch a fly, eat the fly, make children cry. Before he knows it, Pusit is close to winning the prize. As expected, this is when the tasks become more disgusting and violent, so naturally: bloody.

While there is nothing inherently wrong with 13 Beloved, it reads like a bad draft of the first Saw movie. Pusit has the opportunity to stop the tasks at any point, but he keeps propelling himself further and further and further, dragging the audience along with his oblivious naiveté. Amidst the carnage surrounding the tasks, Pusit continues to ignore the well being of those around him for his own reckless ambition. By the end, you don’t really care if he wins or loses; you just want it to be over.

Essentially, 13 Beloved is what Pink Flamingos would have been had it taken place in Thailand and had Eli Roth as the writer instead of the much scarier, John Waters. The movie itself is beautifully shot and acted superbly. There’s just no substance.

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