 However, the following day, Sony Pictures appealed the ruling, saying it would pull the film if the decision to cut it was not reversed.The censorship panel then voted 6–5 that the film could be shown uncut, but that a disclaimer would precede and follow the film, saying it was a work of fiction.After controversy surrounded Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film "Syndromes and a Century", the Free Thai Cinema Movement started to gain momentum in late-April 2007.