Only God Forgives (2013) on Netflix
Julian runs a Bangkok boxing club that hides his family's drug business. When his brother dies, his mother Crystal arrives and orders him to hunt down the killer.
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Plot summary
Julian and his older brother Billy are American expatriates in Bangkok, where they run a Muay Thai boxing club that fronts for their drug dealing. Billy goes to a brothel one night and attacks the keeper, then kills an underage prostitute. Thai police corner him. Crystal, the brothers' mother, heads the family's criminal organization; she arrives in Bangkok and orders Julian to kill the man responsible for Billy's death.
Cast
- Wannisa Peungpaas Kanita
- Narucha Chaimareungas Papa San
- Danai Thiengdhamas Waiter / Li Po
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Only God Forgives (2013)
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SPOILER
Ryan Gosling himself came up with the moment in which Julian, a character who speaks only 17 lines in the whole film, sticks his hand into his dead mother's womb.- Ryan Gosling entered negotiations to star in June 2011, after Luke Evans dropped out of the film due to scheduling conflicts with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
- The film received a very divided response at its Cannes press screening: it was booed by many in the audience of journalists and critics while also receiving a standing ovation.
- Gosling had undertaken Muay Thai training in preparation for the role, with two- to three-hour sessions daily, and director Nicolas Winding Refn took part in the training as well.
