Singapore Dreaming?

Hey guys.. finally there is a local movie after Perth that is worth watching.. For once, it is not a Jack Neo production that deals with ah bengs + ah lians/ people with intense greed for money/ kids turning into monsters.

Nevertheless, Singapore Dreaming” ( 美满人生 ) is a story about a family with big dreams, living on a small island. It is a poignant, yet darkly humorous story about a typical Singaporean family coming to grips with their aspirations.

In the story, debt-ridden patriarch Loh Poh Huat can’t help but feel bitter irony whenever he has to perform his job as a lawyer’s clerk – seizing goods from the homes of credit card debtors. At the end of his career and frustrated by the gulf between his middle class dreams and his working class reality, he takes his feelings of failure and envy out on his family.

So when Poh Huat suddenly wins two million dollars in the lottery, the Lohs start believing that maybe this windfall will deliver them from their struggles. But something happens which pitches the family into a battle where the stakes are the very meaning of life itself.

Do support a good local movie that has a great cast (yu beng, melody, serene, and the crazy eunuch from 龙门客栈). This movie is totally independent of MediaCorp (hence no more cheesy acting by recycled drama actors). It is totally supported by private investors (nope, no single cent from the local government. Budget cuts in the arts, remember?) ie. a production of love.