Wonderful town

Takes place in southern Thailand after the tsunami. I do not get it. I did not like it. It took more than an hour to develop a story at a snail's pace, and in the last ten minutes introduces senseless violence hung on a shingle of context as thin as a reed. Of course some gushed over it, the way some gush over a red stripe on a white canvass and call it sublime. Poppycock.