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| | The Protector (Tom yum goong) (2005): Tony Jaa, Mum Jokmok - PopMatters Film Review |
 | | The youthful, naïve, and very earnest warrior Kham (Tony Jaa) has been raised by his father (Sotorn Rungruaeng) to respect the old ways and values, including the belief that elephants embody nobility and power, and as such, must be respected and protected. |
 | | As soon as he sees Kham in a fight with one of the gangsters, Mark intuits that the youth is not to blame, that he’s in Australia for some higher purpose, and that he (Mark) needs to help him. |
 | | The violence escalates, as does Kham’s frustration and rage (when he learns yet another family member has been killed, he is beside himself with grief, working through it by breaking every limb and neck that comes his way (these in a throng of fl-suited thugs who just keep coming and falling, and falling again). |
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