tear of the black tiger may be like any other film you have see . it a love story and it a western and at least a thai western and and it get incredibly violent bloodshed at time that almost cartoon like in it excessiveness . dum be a young peasant boy who have fall in love with a rich girl from the city name rumpoey . when theyre out in a boat they run afoul of some bully and rumpoey almost drowns when the boat be overturn but dum save her and bring her back to where her father be stay and and he whip severely for his transgression and by his father . and now and in the future and which appear to be the 50 and maybe and it hard to pinpoint a time frame in this film and rumpoey have be promise to kumjoorn and a police captain and and yet she do not love him . dum have find his father kill by bandit and and he be out for revenge and be almost kill and but he take in by rival bandit ( who i guess and be cowboy and thai style and that be ) and and he become know a the black tiger . and so on . of course and you know that dum still love rumpoey and and she still love him and but theyre world apart . this be a very interesting take on the old style western . it either give a thai spin or it do out of ignorance of what a real western be suppose to be like . some of the cowboy outfit look like something a child would wear in the 50 or 60 . there even a segment where the film take u back in time ( only 10 year ) to where the film play out like an old silent movie and complete with jerky movement and jump in the picture and like there be sprocket miss from the film . and and when be the last time you saw cowboys become blood brother by cut themselves and drip their blood into whiskey and and get rip roar drunk in front of a statue of buddha . probably not recently . and then and the color . i felt like at time and i be about to be overwhelm by the intensity of the color of this film . at time and it beautiful and and at other time and it almost hallucinatory . the music in the soundtrack be sort of a thai spin on old western theme and sound very western but very eastern at the same time . there be time where this movie do go a bit slowly and but that a minor complaint . this be a rather fascinating experiment in transplant a genre that rather american into a country that have none of that sort of history in it culture ( as far a i know ) and and it do work rather well and but do come off a bit odd and to say the least . a fun film and a weird film and and possible influence seem to be guy maddin and john water and so if youre up for a strange western with surreal set and thai actor and well and give it a shot and it pretty strange but also rather astound . positive .