Travelers who want to know about Thailand more than others can do this in several ways: for example, buy a guide to the country or browse the Internet .However, neither the book nor the reviews can fully acquaint you with what is called the "atmosphere of Thailand" .Most likely, you will read that in Thailand you are waiting for a friendly sea, hospitable beaches, rainforest-covered mountains, refreshing waterfalls, comfortable hotels and a lot of delicious food .But all this, if desired, can be found in other countries .To really understand what exactly makes Thailand unique, you need to settle here and live more than one month .Or drive the whole country from north to south .And you can - watch before the trip several Thai films .

Personally, I would recommend a wonderful movie "The Love of a Young Nack", filmed by Thai director Nongzi Nimibutrom. During my life I saw a lot of films about love. Hundreds. Thousands. But until now, for some reason, it seems to me that a movie about love should be shot just like Khun Nonzi did 10 years ago. Well, among other things, this is Thai, Thai, very Thai cinema.

The film story about the love of the young Nak is based on a very old Thai legend. The film is rather sad: the main character, the girl Nak, dies during childbirth, but her love for her husband turns out to be so strong that she comes back to him with a materialized ghost. Incidentally, spirits of this kind in Thailand are called "phi tai tang clom," or ghosts of dead pregnant women. They are extremely dangerous and capable of any desperate deeds.

They say that Nonsee Nimibutr spent several days in the prayers before the shoots: he asked Nak spirit to allow him to make a film about the story of her love for her husband, who won the death .The director was prayed in Bangkok, in the temple of Wat Mahabutr, because according to legend the spirit of Nak was eventually expelled from the world of the living in the world of the dead in this very temple .By the way, Wat Mahabutr is located near the popular street of Sukhumvit .More precisely, directly on it, in a small alley Soya Onat .Not the center of the city, but already not the most marginal suburb: welcome, if you accidentally run past .

I believe that this is the film worth seeing before you go to Thailand - especially those who want to know about this country more than others. And for you to understand a little, why I think so, I will retell an episode of this film.

His action takes place in the 19th century, the husband of a girl, a young man named Mack, is taken to war. After the war, Mack returns home, where his wife with a small child is waiting for him. Later we learn that Nak and her son are the spirits of the deceased, but so far we do not know about it.

The house of a young family stands in the woods on wooden stilts, the staircase leads to it. Once the ladder breaks, Mac takes the ax and goes down to fix it. He pushes a pile of old baskets under the house, and all of a sudden a flock of huge gray rats, like a water from a fire hydrant, bursts out of the baskets and a heap of dry leaves from under Mack's feet.

And now - attention, the question: "How would you act on the place of the Mac? "The viewer from Tyumen asks you. Would they kill all the rats? Would you start to yell with a good mate? Would you run away? If at least one question you answered "yes", you are not a Thai man. Do you know what Mack did in this situation?

"Hey, Nack! - pushing the rats with their feet, calmly said Mac. "Why are there so many rats?" "And this is a very revealing moment. Tolerance, the ability to stay calm in any situation - that's probably the magical qualities of the local population, which make tourists from year to year return to Thailand. Come back, because here everyone has a place under the sun. Even if you were born a rat and live in a pile of old, useless baskets.