In the Middle of Everything is a highly original film that mixes documentary-style shooting with careful planning on the part of its director and main actress. The other people in the movie are real - their faces are obscured via digital trickery - and candid cameras were used to capture their non-staged reactions. This style will be familiar to viewers of such "reality" shows as Jackass and Wildboyz, and it's hard not to think of writer-director Mana Sirisillapa as something of a Johnny Knoxville-style prankster. Why else would Sirisillapa make a movie in which its star, Thiphawan Wannamahin, repeatedly collapses in public if not to see how the hapless people around her will react?

The film was shot in Bangkok, where Wannamahin has just lost her third job in a row. At the beginning, she seems very depressed. An internal monologue lets us inside her head, and she asks desperate questions about herself, wondering what the meaning of her life is. She collapses, and in the next scene all of the sudden she's an extremely happy and outgoing person, dancing around while listening to her iPod, smiling and waving at everybody. I was beginning to wonder if I missed the part where she took some happy pills, but then the movie finally reveals that it was all a dream she had after her fall. Kind of a cheat, but let's back up: Early in the film Wannamahin wonders what it would be like to be a kid, without all of these adult responsibilities. So in the dream she gets to find out. At least, that's what I got out of it.

Sirisillapa also served as the cinematographer on In the Middle of Everything, which just about glows with the magic of Bangkok. Wannamihin proves to be a winsome travel companion. That is, when she's standing on her own two feet. Seriously, what is it with this girl and falling down all the time? She hits the pavement more often than Gerald Ford.