BANGKOK DANGEROUS (2008) (a)

“The best way to defend yourself is to know when something’s about to happen. You have to learn to read your surroundings.”

Comment:
This quotation reminds me of a Javanese term “Eling”. A couple of years ago, when I was in Jogjakarta, a good friend of mine taught me about Eling. Approximately, Eling is about concise or self awareness and how we control it even in a critical time. Or in other words, Eling means do not be panic in every situation even the worst one.
See… for example method you are about to perform in front of an audience, you feel so nervous. And you get stumble on the cable of the microphones. What will you do? Go back home and forget about the performance like it never happen? No way. You are the center of the attention; find the way to overcome it. Make some joke. Remember to Eling.
The former president of the USA is one of the people who are very good in implementing Eling. When someone threw shoes to him, he managed to avoid it and instead of getting mad and asking SS agents to kill the man, he just stayed calm, proceeded with the speech and even made some jokes. He managed to implement Eling.
There might be a question on how Eling plays its role when we are having a car accident? Well in the case like this, Eling works when at the critical moment, you can make the right decision to swerve the car to the right position. Eling works when you are checking to make sure that everyone in the car you are driving is okay. It works when you go and assure that your surroundings are okay as well. You control you emotion and you control your surroundings.
Finally, I just want to remind you to always Eling wherever you are. Make Eling as your affirmation so that you can control yourself and your surroundings, and when things get worse, you still san control them.
Happy Eling


Summary of the Movie:
The life of Joe, an anonymous assassin, takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe, a remorseless hit man, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong, a street punk and picked pocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, finds himself mentoring the young men instead whilst simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl.