Railway Sleepers (หมอนรถไฟ) is an observational documentary, in which the camera watches overnight railway cars in Thailand. It's a film without narrative, but it's filled with intriguing characters, of whom we only get a glimpse. The whole things is done in rather tight shots, so we see only part of the train car at any given time. There are no big train shots or shots of full cars. Where is everyone going? The film is pieced together from footage taken over eight years on, apparently, every train line in Thailand.
Sompot Chidgasornpongse's film has the kind of mysterious, haunting quality of a film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (who produced), and although it was about two hours of apparently nothing, really, I found the whole thing eminently watchable and could probably have watched another hour.
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