We live in a nation of censorship, where information is kept hidden from the eyes of the public in order to stifle its ‘bad influence’, sometimes even at the expense of necessary truth. Just this year, there are issues such as the Pangrok Sulap exhibition controversy and Lena Hendry, to name a few, are examples of such hidden truths; a hundred of voices silenced.
At the same time, we complain about the state of our film industry – filled with contrived, boilerplate storytelling. Daring to be different would only result in being shunned by the crippling problem of ‘low audience demand’ or outright [...]