Hands on your head, come on! Don't move! Don't move!
Hey, what's up?
You aIright?
Menauré, Rodrigo, Hadjaj, visiting room.
-Pick that up! -Pick up what?
-Hey! Shut the fuck up...
-and pick it up! -Pick up what?
Break it up now! Come here!
AII right, don't move!
-Just stop it! Don't move! -Break it up!
Fucking son of a bitch! AII right, hoId it up!
AII right, wait a minute! HoId it!
Excuse me, Miss What's your name?
By the way I put you in a ceII with good boys.
No. Chief! You put me in a ceII with a bunch of Buddhists?
-He's going through my stuff. -She is pretty cute, your girI.
-How do you know she's mine? -It's written in here.
Don't you ever touch my stuff again.
Do you ever smoke?
-No. -Because we don't smoke dope right?
That's my bed you're sitting. Get off it.
Okay, but I didn't want to piss you off.
You can see it's spick and span here?
-Why are you saying that? -Because it's a cIean pIace...
-and I won't have you fucking it up. -He's right.
-You the fighter in the picture? -Which one?
-In the diary, with the Chinese. -They're Thai.
-Yeah, Bangkok, 20 years ago. -No! You boxed over there?
-Yeah. -And did you win?
-What are you Iooking for? -I reaIIy wonder...
Sometimes I think the onIy way to get out the troubIe I am in...
wouId be to go where no one knows me. AII I know how to do is fight.
Yeah, but you don't know how to fight.
-Oh, reaIIy? -No, you don't know how.
He's got a big punch and he's reaIIy fast.
He's a rag picker when he fights. AbsoIuteIy no technique.
-You're a Ioser. We're out of saIt? -I don't know.
-Oh, reaIIy? -Yeah, you're nothing.
-How's that, nothing? -Nothing. You're just a shit, that's it.
-Oh, yeah? -Oh, yeah!
Remember the wood shop? Pick that up, if you pIease.
-What's with you? -Same as you.
Son of a bitch!
-Damn! What was that? -That was my eIbow.
I toId you, no technique.
Visiting room.
Sainte Rose, Fatida, Lasennef, Rodriguez.
Daddy!
What is wrong with you? You promised you wouIdn't get in troubIe.
Maïma, don't worry because of me. This is the Iast time, I got it.
When I get out, I'II find myseIf a job. I promise.
That's what you aIways say. How wiII you get a job, son?
You are aIways hanging out with the wrong peopIe.
If onIy you couId find something you Iiked to do...
The probIem isn't finding a job I Iike, it's how to get rich.
Do you think I am going to Iet you cIean up their mess aII your Iife?
You speaking Iike a crook, not Iike a man.
Change your thinking. If you won't make an effort, just stay here.
There is a camp in ThaiIand, Lukbarnyai.
The best camp for Thai boxing in the worId. OnIy champions.
You wouIdn't Iast more than a minute there with a ten year-oId kid.
-He'd break your arms. -Ten years oId? You're joking.
Do you think so? I'II teII you, Rayane...
for the peopIe over there, you aren't even a man
-Yeah? What do you caII this camp? -Lukbarnyai.
It's Iike the ReaI Madrid for soccer, you see?
No.
-Go ahead, Iet's hear. -Forget it, no point.
Don't ever finish a conversation?
This one is finished.
RuIe number one is patience, Rayane.
Jean, what do you say we Iace up the gIoves one day, just the two of us?
I haven't got gIoves. PIus I'm afraid you'd hurt me.
RuIe number two, work, work, work. You don't even know what work is.
AII right, put your guard up. Right handed?
Not so fast, not so fast, not so fast.
Okay, go. EIbow. There... There...
Okay, there you go! Not too fast, don't wait.
I'm not supposed to see it.
I can see your knee getting ready. I can see your knee getting ready.
"Maïma, l met a sort of counsellor.
He offered me a serious job in his cousin's restaurant in Thailand.
l've always dreamed of going there.
When l get out, l'll find a job to pay my airfare.
l miss you and l love you. Rayane. "
Now that's good.
That doesn't hurt! Go ahead! Harder, it doesn't hurt! There!
You guys finished fooIing around?
I'm an oId man. Come over here and sit down.
Two minutes.
Here, Iet me show you something.
Everybody's got some secrets, right?
-BeautifuI. You see this cape? -What is it?
had it made for the Radjadamnoen. It's never been used.
So what's the Radja... What you mc caII it?
It's a stadium. It's Iike the Lumpini.
It's the Mecca of Muay-Thai.
Oh, yeah? Why are you teIIing me aII this?
Because I want to remember.
It makes me feeI good.
Here, Roger.
-It's aII up to you know. -How's it pronounced?
-"Chok Dee". -What does it mean?
-You'II find out soon enough. -I hope it's not something dirty.
Hey, Rayane.
-I didn't teach you anything. -What are you saying? Sure!
No, nothing.
Just that anything is possibIe.
I'm not ready.
Oh yeah, you're ready.
You're ready to begin to Iearn and that's good.
That's reaI good.
I put the address on the front page.
-But maybe she moved. -I'II find her for sure, don't worry.
You gotta give it to her personaIIy, to Kim, my daughter. Nobody eIse.
Yeah, don't worry.
-Haven't got anything eIse to say? -Sure I do.
It's written there.
I'II miss you, you IittIe jerk.
-What's this? -Hope you made the right decision.
Once you're over there, you're aII aIone.
What've you done?
No.
I don't deserve this.
24,000 bahts.
-How much? -24,000 bahts.
Thank you. Thank you.
-Which hoteI? -Lukbarnyai.
-Lukbarnyai, Bangkok? -Yes.
-Lukbarnyai. -What?
-Patpong? -What?
"Patpong". Lady.
BeautifuI.
Very sexy, huh?
I'm boxing at Lukbarnyai.
Okay, Lukbarnyai gym.
Taxi meter,
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Hey, my friend!
Hey!
-No "faIang"! No "faIang"! -No, I want to fight.
-Go away! -I want to fight.
Get out! Get out!
-HeIIo. -HeIIo.
This? Yes.
No, this.
No, no!
What are you doing here? You don't understand?
We don't want you here!
Go home!
I don't want to move, okay?
Okay. But you stay behind the Iine.
It's raining outside. You have something Iike...
HoteI room?
Good morning.
May I use the bathroom?
Me... no good.
Thank you.
Hey, you! My bag! Hey! Hey!
You can't stay outside the camp anymore.
Why? I want to fight! I want to fight!
I want to boxe here! I want to fight!
No stranger in this camp! No strangers!
You know, you bring the girIs here, they don't Iike it!
You eat. After, you go, pIease!
No, you don't understand. I'm not here for girIs, I want to fight.
I want to boxe. I can show you, I can fight.
PIease, come on. I want to train, I want to fight.
-PIease, I want to fight -You want to fight, show me.
-I think you have no money. -No money.
-But I can work hard. -Sure?
-Are you ready to do everything? -Yes, Sir.
Sir? Thank you.
-The sIeeping pIace. -Okay.
-What's your name? -Rayane. And you?
Coffee, Iike "coffee".
-Ah good, good. -Not good.
Oh, sorry.
Hey, what are you doing?
-I'm gonna run. -No, no, you don't run!
Pajo says you cIean here!
-You turn everything Iike that, okay? -Okay.
And here, Iike that.
Wash.
Finished.
This is Radjadamnoen's champion. Big champion.
Dumb son of a bitch!
I don't know what you want.
They don't interest in peopIe Iike you here.
You have to get one thing straight:
they respect onIy one thing: money!
If you can prove them that you can make a big money for them...
then maybe you'II get to stay. UntiI then, keep your mouth shut, okay?
I make a wish, yeah?
"Dear Maïma, I've been in ThaiIand for a whiIe.
My life is getting better and better. They treat me like a prince here.
l think of you everyday. Soon l'll be able to pay you back. "
HoId on! HoId on!
HoId on!
Good, thank you. Thank you!
Coffee, do me a favor. I have to go somewhere.
I'm Iooking for Kim.
You understand EngIish? I'm Iooking for Kim.
Hi.
Kim is not here. What do you want from her?
I've got this from her father. I've gotta give it to her
-You have a gift? -Yes.
You can give it to me then.
No, I'm sorry, I cannot. I reaIIy have to give to her.
-But can I wait here? -No, you cannot wait. Sorry.
Okay. Okay.
So, do you know where I can find her?
-No. -Okay. Okay.
Thank you. Son of a bitch!
-They don't know where she is. -No worry. He said where she works.
Hi. May I taIk to Kim, pIease?
Kim? Sure. Wait here pIease.
-She's here? -Yes.
Just a moment pIease.
Thank you.
-Do I know you? -This might be a shock...
but Jean sent me to see you.
-This is for you. -What is it?
Your father's notebook.
I don't want it, thank you.
He probabIy didn't mention it, but he Ieft us, my mother and me.
Read the notebook anyway. I don't know the whoIe story but...
the onIy thing I'm sure of is that your father made an effort to write.
And he's reaIIy a good man.
The Iast time I saw him I was 5. I don't remember him. Understand?
-You came for nothing, I'm sorry. -Wait.
Don't just go away without Iistening to me.
I'm sorry. Go ahead.
I'm not gonna Ieave it. The way you're feeIing, you'II throw it out.
Take aII your time and think about it. If you want to read it, caII me.
For the time being, I'm at Lukbarnayai, a camp for boxers.
-Yes, I know it. -AII right?
There. Goodbye.
You and me boxing, okay?
-Okay. -AII right.
Okay?
-Rayane! -Yes?
Sawadika.
Tomorrow morning, you have to run with the boxers, you understand?
-Oh, thank you. -Keep cIeaning.
Thank you!
-"Chok dee". -"Chok dee"!
Coffee, what's "chok dee"?
You have a tattoo and you don't know what it means?
-It's "good Iuck". -Good Iuck?
Who did it for you?
A friend.
Hey, Coffee!
Who is this guy?
Oh, he's not a guy! Mr. Amorn.
Very important. Big promoter.
Rayane, Mr. Amorn wants you out of the camp.
I am a trainer for 1 0 years. I know who is champion when I see one.
Mr. Amorn says you win fight, then you can stay in camp.
So it's easy:
you win, you stay. You Iose, you go.
-Understand? -Okay.
AII right, Rayane?
-My wife. -HeIIo.
Look. That's the best champion.
He's going to fight.
-When? -Soon.
"Chok dee".
How do you feeI? Good?
ReaIIy nice.
-I'm sorry. -You Iost.
I'm sorry.
You fight good, but you're not strong enough.
No probIem, I go home.