The two faces of Bangkok. Modernized by appearances, its citizens think in ancient ways. Pu works at 24-hour convenience store, and is plagued by a recurring dream of her dead mother building a house. Pu seeks a fortune teller who says her father will die upon completion of the house if the dreams continue. Her playboy father falls in love with Yok at the karaoke bar that he frequents. He gets beaten up by orders form Chinese mafioso Toeng after not heeding warnings to stay away from Yok. Then there′s the hitman Noi, who Pu starts to hang out with. Director Pen-ek Ratanaruang arranges the meeting of Pu and Noi, and the relations of her father, Yok, and Toeng around Pu′s dream, with her father at the center. The two images of Bangkok lie in the contrasting images of the enchantress Yok, and Pu′s mother, signifying a warning to the dissipated father. The tough hitman Noi is too shy to express love. Pu looks like the most resonable person around, but clings to a fortune teller. Fun Bar Karaoke is a satirical look at the complicated and ambiguous Bangkok, where past and present, tradition and modernism, and logic and rationalism coexist. (Kim Ji-Seok)