00:09Hello everyone.
00:11Today, I'm taking you to Thailand.
00:14Pay close attention to the story I'm about to tell you.
00:16whose very name still sends shivers down the spines of Bangkok,
00:20that of Mai Nak Phra Kanong, the woman in black.
00:25To give you some context for this legend,
00:27It tells the story of Mai Nak, a woman who dies
00:30giving birth while her husband, Mac, is away in combat.
00:35She returns in spirit form to rejoin her husband.
00:38but his appearance frightens those around him.
00:42This story has been adapted into several films and shows.
00:46So, I imagine a peaceful neighborhood, along the canals,
00:51with the houses huddled close together,
00:54almost as if she were protecting herself from the silence.
00:57And in the midst of this peaceful life, there was Mai Nak,
01:02a gentle, loving woman, deeply devoted to her home,
01:06a luminous presence of one that one does not forget.
01:09She lived with her husband, Mac, whom she loved more than anything.
01:13But one day, Mac had to go to war.
01:16And just thinking about it, I can already feel the break.
01:20He who walks away, she who stays, with the waiting, the anguish,
01:24and that fragile hope that we hold against ourselves so as not to collapse.
01:30Mai Nak was waiting for him.
01:32She awaited his return as one awaits a miracle.
01:35But fate decided otherwise.
01:39During Mac's absence, Mai Nak died giving birth to their child.
01:45And I think that's where the story becomes truly moving.
01:48because we're not just talking about a ghost.
01:51We are talking about an interrupted love, a life broken at the very moment it was meant to give life.
01:57When Mac finally returned, he didn't know.
02:00For him, Mai Nak was there.
02:02His wife, his home, his world.
02:05Except that what he found no longer entirely belonged to the living.
02:09Mai Nak had also returned, but in a different way.
02:12Not like a mere memory, not like a distant shadow.
02:16No, she was there, present, close, almost real.
02:20A mind inhabited by such a strong love that it refused to disappear.
02:25And that's what makes the legend so disturbing.
02:28She's scary, yes.
02:30But this fear is born first and foremost from sadness.
02:32I imagine the residents of the neighborhood gradually noticing that something is wrong.
02:37Strange silences, glances that meet without daring to speak.
02:43An icy sensation that falls suddenly without explanation, as if the air knew a boundary had been crossed.
02:50crossed.
02:51Mai Nak is not just a malevolent ghost.
02:54For me, it is the embodiment of a love that did not accept separation.
02:59A soul left suspended between two worlds, unable to leave the one she loves.
03:04And perhaps that's why his story still resonates through the years.
03:08Because ultimately, this story is as much about death as it is about attachment.
03:12He talks about what remains when everything should be over.
03:16A bond so powerful that it continues to exist even in the darkness.
03:21What I also find fascinating is that Mai Nak never remained fixed in a single version.
03:27His story has been told again and again in movies, on stage, and in popular narratives.
03:33Each adaptation gives it a new face.
03:36But the emotion remains the same.
03:39This blend of chills, sorrows, and tragic beauty.
03:43So, if I were to talk to you about Mai Nak today,
03:46I wouldn't just say it's a scary legend.
03:49I would say it's a love story that refused to die.
03:53A story where the supernatural becomes almost secondary in the face of the power of absence, memory, and connection.
04:01And perhaps that's the most disturbing thing.
04:03It's not fair that a ghost has returned.
04:06It's because she came back for love.
04:08Right away.
04:10The woman in black, Mai Nak frakanon.
04:29On the banks of the canals, in the old quarter, under the tightly packed roofs that night comes to bend.
04:36Mai Nak smiled in the cozy house, her heart full of love turned towards the horizon.
04:44But Mac went to the front and the fire, leaving in his hands a silent farewell.
04:51She held onto a fragile hope, like a prayer to the motionless heavens.
04:58The woman in black, in the shadows, waits.
05:04Between two worlds carried by the wind.
05:08His love is stronger than fleeting time.
05:11Return to the land of the living when life ends.
05:15The woman in black, in the evening mist, is still searching for a heart, a soul, a glance.
05:22And Bangkok shivers in the depths of the night.
05:26For even death does not extinguish the love that sustains him.
05:30When, in his absence, fate broke him.
05:33In giving life, it was her own that was being lost.
05:37A child breathes, then there is a great silence.
05:40And a strange presence was born in the air.
05:44When Mac came home, he saw him near him.
05:48As if nothing had taken his life.
05:51But the people in the neighborhood all lowered their eyes.
05:54Because love, sometimes, returns dangerously.
05:59The woman in black, in the shadows, waits.
06:04Between two worlds carried by the wind.
06:08His love is stronger than fleeting time.
06:11Return to the land of the living when life ends.
06:15The woman in black, in the evening mist,
06:18Still searching for a heart, a soul, a gaze.
06:22And Bangkok shivers in the depths of the night.
06:26For even death does not extinguish the love that sustains him.
06:29It is not hatred that makes her stay.
06:33But the thread of a dream that she cannot break.
06:37A soul lost in deprivation and cold.
06:40Who holds absence in the crook of their arms.
06:43The woman in black, in the shadows, waits.
06:50Between two worlds, prisoners of time.
06:53His love was stronger than fear and oblivion.
06:57It crosses through time, it crosses through the night.
07:00The woman in black, in the deathly silence.
07:04It leaves a strange mirror in our hearts.
07:08For beneath the chill of this cursed tale.
07:12It is love that returns in the night.
07:19It is love that returns in the night.
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