Citizen Dog (film)

The second film by the director of Tears of the Black Tiger, it is a colorful story set in contemporary Bangkok, where a boy (Pod) without a goal in life falls in love with a girl (Jin) who lives for her dreams.

On the job in an office, he meets Jin, a maid who has her nose perpetually buried in a mysterious white book written in a foreign language that she dreams of someday understanding.

Eventually, he expresses his true feelings for Jin, but she's become obsessed with a hippie farang, whom she's seen reading the same white book she has.

Meanwhile, Pod has adventures in his taxicab, giving rides to a little girl with a foul mouth who smokes cigarettes and plays videogames.

Jin discovers Peter at a rally, who reveals his name is actually Andre and that the white book is an Italian gay romance novel.

Crestfallen, Jin throws away the book and her activist lifestyle and leaves Bangkok, telling Pod she needs to be away from him.

Pod climbs the plastic mountain and finds her there, confesses his love again and kisses her, overwhelming her doubts about their future.

The opening and closing theme is a cover of "...Before", originally performed by Thailand indie rockers Modern Dog.

The soundtrack also features songs by Mahasamut Boonyaruk, who starred as Pod and is a musician in the Bangkok underground band Saliva Bastards.