dreaming no more

Singapore Dreaming – finally, when i want recommend a good local movie, i dun need to pretend Sepet is made by Singaporeans . Now i have SD.

of course this is very subjective & biased, i hv not seen all the s’pore movies esp not roystan tan’s latest 4:30 which received good reviews.

but for me, SD is sincere, touching, is about humble s’poreans like me – tho i dun share their dreams but i can feel for them. Most of all, the actors esp those who came from the theatre (yann yann, yu beng, serene & dick), they make me feel so proud. Because they are so at ease, speaking naturally acting naturally, whether they are using spore english/mandarin. The audience no longer need to suffer to hear the actors stressed on all the ‘la’s & ‘leh’s & ‘lor’s, or the actors to speak deliberate broken english/mandarin in order to act like the ordinary chinese s’porean. We dun need to have ah lians or ah bengs to show that it is a spore movie abt ordinary s’poreans. It is our story spoken in our languages and in a HDB setting that is not deliberately made to look bad or glorified like a HDB propaganda. Everything is presented as it is.

自然不造作，而且最难得是有心。it is obvious that the movie is made with the heart.

if u cant even tell a story well about your people, how are u going regional or even further to make movies with universal appeal? Mediacorp (dun know wat’s the name of its movie making unit) has so much money but they dun make s’pore movies.

the only complaint is - the film quality looks bad - wonder why.

if u hv not seen SD, wat are u waitin for?

the shameful thing is, i shld hv brought mum to watch SD rather the banquet with the bad after taste. becos i know mum is never ever to set foot in any cinema.

(btw, Sepet is made in Malaysian, checkout www.sepet.com.my or i can lend u my dvd)