Before you hold your breath and wait for me to POSSIBLY say something controversial or touchy about this film, don't. Because I didn't watch it. =p However, a review by our resident film reviewer Tammi Kwok has been done up, so take a look!
Alright alright, here was how things went. I was at the Arts House with Erman slightly late for the film. Since it wasn't nice to barge into the screening, and since I was a little apprehensive of the whole prospect of watch this film(and other things related actually), we didn't go in. Kartik was saying that the gay community of Singapore bought most of the tickets and a full house was resulted.
Being severely underexposed to the varieties of sexual preferences, I was naturally(and very) naive and didn't really know how to respond to these new experiences. I have always kept myself open to everything in life so that I can fully appreciate the happenings around me, and more importantly, not to harbour or form ridiculous prejudices or misconceptions due to the lack of understanding.
However, this was a true test. I am not saying that I AM harbouring inappropriate judgements about gays, but I'm just not ready to face the fact that I am about to interact with people with the opposite sexual preferences as I have.
It's just about being different.
It's about having people around us who vehemently oppose homosexuals with little or inadequate basis. People who ridicule and spite them for the very fact that they are different. These mentalities are. sad to say, contagious. They are still the same, but with different preferences, like how I prefer lounge music but you may not. We don't ridicule others because of their different tastes in music, right?
But why are we still in constant discrimination? This applies to everything else. Race, religion, even down to the colour of our skin.
The festival has so far shown films depicting varying degrees of discrimination and is trying not only to showcase and promote the directors of the films, but also a platform to create awareness of the conflicts that the directors are trying to tell of the world around them.
If we are all to embrace each others' difference with an open heart and mind, maybe we wouldn't be living in such troubled times.
