i have borrow this dvd from the library twice before and but never have the chance to watch it and until now . the appeal be actually to see some of thai director wisit sasanatieng past work and before his up and come make in singapore flick call armful . and i have hear some good thing about this movie too . the story combine two different genre into one and the first be a cowboy western and ( set in thailand no less . ) and the usual star cross lover romance . perhaps the novelty of the first genre type be have thai folk dress up a cowboy and rid on their steed and somehow and become the villain a they plunder and kill . yup and theyre not the good guy and against the usual stereotype . here and the cowboy be bandit and and the good folk be naturally and the cop . but amongst all the bad hat ( pardon the pun ) and there always the hero who force by circumstance to join the group . dum ( chartchai ngamsan ) and also know a the notorious black tiger and renowned fast and deadly draw in all of thailand and have a childhood sweetheart in rumpoey ( sttella malucchi ) . however and their difference in status ( he the son of a servant and while she and the daughter of the governor ) mean that it a forbidden romance to begin with . know his place in her world and he could only admire from afar and become her protector and shield her from harm ( like numerous approach by lecher and bandit ) . a man get ta do what a man get ta do and and during one of his mission and he fail to meet up with rumpoey presumably to elope and while she take it a a sign that he do not want to . like romeo and juliet and she betroth to kumjorn ( arawat ruangyuth ) and a police captain capture by dum notorious gangster bos fai ( sombat metanee ) . and like all star cross lover whose life be play by fate and these event start to spin and take on a life of it own and change the course of our character live forever . it a beautifully shot movie and with plenty of pastel colour drape the set and which at time make you cringe and beg for it to stop . a if to complement it saccharine sweet and sentimental love story and it elevate the movie to a surreal dream like level . the action sequence can be quite cheesy and with the reminiscence of old spaghetti cowboy western gun fight . but the best bit about the film and be the song . i do not understand thai and but even if without the subtitle interpret the lyric and i think that they be beautiful enough to accentuate scene in the movie . perhaps my only gripe about the movie in this version of the dvd and be that the bloody violence have be censor and deprive me the bloody glee of watch the black tiger dispatch his opponent with his accuracy . there be scene where footsoldiers bleed by the bucketloads of ketchup and but the crucial one on one be totally censor and and you wouldn not know the nitty gritty detail of the death . truly marred my enjoyment of the movie . what give . code 3 dvd contain some extra and like extract from the book black tiger philosophy and rumpoey guilt and explain a bit more about the lead character and insight into the film aesthetic take a look at the sala raw nang and or await the maiden and the quintessential thai shelter and and how rattana pestonji ( indie thai filmmaker ) have influence the set design and especially the colour . the extra be top off with a one static screen director inspiration and and the list of award which this film have win .