Thai woman becomes trapped in "Idiocracy"

Let's say you are from, I don't know, Thailand, and one weekend you cross the border to go shopping in Malaysia. This isn't unusual, people do it all the time, and you've done it yourself for say, 50 years or so. On your way home, you board the wrong bus by accident. But you don't notice, because you go to sleep. When you get off the bus, no-one speaks your language. You don't know it, but you are 800 miles out of your way. You get on another bus going the other way, which then promptly takes you 400 miles in the wrong direction. When you get off THAT bus, you're *really* lost. No-one speaks your language, no-one can understand anything you write, etc. What's worse, because of your skin color, everyone thinks you are a crazed hillbilly and won't talk to you AT ALL. So you beg on the street so that you can eat, which doesn't do anything for people's willingness to speak to you. Eventually, the police round you up along with a whole bunch of other street people, and put you in an institution, where the people that work there listen to your complaints with compassion, and think: "That's sounds a lot like some weird yapping. Bob, come over here and listen to this lady yapping away." So they start calling you "Mrs Yap." "Crazy ol' Mrs Yap! She's so crazy!" Eventually some students from your neck of the woods show up to work at the institution as interns, and since they actually are able to understand you, they arrange for you to go back home. 25 years after you left.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250604,00.html

Mystery and I watched "Idiocracy" about a month ago. ("Idiocracy" is Mike Judge's second film, about a future composed of the descendants of our current society's stupidest members. (Picture a world peopled entirely by the sixth grade bully, and you'll have the idea.)) The movie was killed by Fox because they hated it. Fox slashed the effects budget, killed the theater distribution, and released it on video with no fanfare, and in a strange bit of anti-marketing, the DVD navigation system is nearly impossible to operate.) Don't get me wrong, the movie is by no means "Citizen Kane." In fact, I wouldn't even say the movie is "Strange Brew," but the movie has some real moments. The true gift is the film's commentary on our society. It's not-so-subtle satire seems WAY over the top, but after about a month of reading the news, I realize that the sets and costumes are deliberately exaggerated to the point of ridiculousness, (perhaps as a distraction, but more likely a design choice, so they can say "see, it's in DA FUTURE,") but the behavior of the people in the film is only *slightly* skewed. In the last month, I've seen about a thousand things that are just one step away from the idiotic behavior portrayed in the film, which makes it sort of a sad movie.