Following up on his earlier Pineapple, Gitai's Bangkok Bahrain takes an original and provocative look at international capitalism where men and women are commodities. Post-Vietnam War Thailand retained its prostitution market and emerged as a sex-tourism destination. Thousands of women migrate yearly from small peasant towns to earn a living in Bangkok's nightlife. Almost equally flashy and gaudy labor agencies beckon Thai men to become contract laborers abroad. Gitai reveals the cost, particularly to relations between men and women, of such a systematic displacement from culture, family, and rural life, an enforced exile that Gitai likens to the story of Exodus. "It is indeed the very distance he keeps from his interviewees, exploiters and exploited alike, that allows them to emerge, not as either people with problems or as nasty bastards, but as figures interpolated in a complex and abstract movement of international capital." (Mick Eaton, Framework)