![]() Stateless people are Thailand’s equivalent of undocumented migrants, unable to vote, buy land, work legally, or travel freely (which meant the stateless boys on the team couldn’t travel outside their home province of Chiang Rai to matches). In fact, not one but three of the boys were “stateless”, as was the assistant coach, Ekkapol Chantawong (Teeradon Supapunpinyo). She is reassured this won’t make any difference. As a result, she is worried that her son (Chai, the youngest of the group) won’t be brought out. In the film, the mother of one of the boys tells the assistant to the area’s governor, Narongsak Osatanakorn (Sahajak Boonthanakit), that her family is from Myanmar and so don’t have any official ID cards. Below, we sort out where the film sticks to these facts and where it departs. His heroes thus stay rooted in facts, leaving the audience to feel all the emotions that the heroes can’t afford to be distracted by. Howard uses the same approach in both films, breaking down one big crisis into several smaller technical challenges, each one of which has the potential to result in disaster. Director Ron Howard’s previous movie about a high-pressure, life-or-death problem in an extreme environment, Apollo 13, also dramatized a well-known story, but it had the advantage of many details previously remaining classified and so unknown to the public. The bad news: The story was covered so exhaustively at the time that much of the core audience is already familiar with all the details and will notice any fudging for dramatic effect. The good news for the producers of Thirteen Lives: There’s a built-in audience for the story of the 2018 Tham Luang Nang Non rescue, in which an international effort retrieved 12 members of a Thai junior football team and their assistant coach from a huge cave system where they had become stranded by the early arrival of the monsoon. ![]()
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