COMMENT | When I was younger, some of the most enjoyable films that I liked watching were “Bang Rajan” and “Nang Nak”.

These were Thai films that were made in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but were set in the very distant history of the 1700s and 1800s and with the backdrop of war in Southeast Asia.

Since they were Thai films, the stories revolved around wars in which the Siamese were involved.

Bang Rajan tells the story of the war between the Siamese and the Burmese in 1767, while Nang Nak is a ghost story during the Siamese-Vietnamese war in 1831.

It’s fun to watch how history happened, and of course, the excitement of watching aggressive fighting on the screen is very entertaining.

But a lot of these historical epics also serve to remind us that war in real life is not exciting or fun. It reminds us of what happened and why we should avoid it.