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hard to get approval from the Lao government”. The Independent further states
that “a member of the government was on the set at the time of the shooting to
ensure that Lao culture was portrayed appropriately and the film editor removed

a number of scenes they believed might be controversial (Buncombe, 2008).

In the film Sorn played by Ananda, talks to his parents in English, Lao
and Thai. Conversations of the characters in the films are mostly in Lao and
Thai but occasionally English is used. Using different languages in the film is
another aspect representing the transnational characteristics of the film.
Obviously, globalization does not affect only the culture but an individual as well.
Ananda is an interracial of Australian and Laos. He grew up in Australia and
Bangkok and has made his career as a famous actor in Thailand and Asian

region. His identity is, as Sorn states many times in the film, ambiguous. With
globalization effects, the nationalities of films become ambiguous just like other
kinds of art forms, culture or a person like Ananda and many others.

Pleasure Factory

This part aims at analyzing an international co-production film Pleasure
Factory. The film depicts taboo subjects in Asian society, such as prostitution,
female sexual pleasure and same sex relationship. Pleasure Factory was
selected for the “Uncertain Regard” competition at the 2007 Cannes Film
Festival, and was the second film from Singapore that entered the category

(Arnold,2007). The film was later shown at international film festivals around the
world and later released in the United States. Pleasure Factory is also
acclaimed by a number of critics.

In terms of production, Pleasure Factory is a co-production of Singapore
based Spicy Apple Films, The Hong Kong-Dutch company Fortissimo Films and
Singapore’s InnoForm Media.