The Dark Shadow Shrine

embrace the darkness; that you may see the light nestled within it......

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

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Click HERE for the movie trailer.

Try go catch this local movie if u can spare the time during this prelim/promo period.  For those who have been hearing me yak about Bukit Brown cemetery, you will have an idea why demolishing the cemetery to build roads can be a terrible thing. The movie is not really about Bt Brown, but the link I think is there....that symbolic severance with our past is not just a national tragedy, but at closer level, it's also about breaking the connection with those whom we came from.....As usual, it takes a young innocent untainted child in the movie to remind the adults of that.....

Qn: 'For the majority of the people, the Arts are irrelevant to their daily lives.' How true is this of your society? (Cam. 2014)
[the movie above is an excellent eg of the arts which serve the function of capturing our past on celluloid, immortalizing it in the process....serving to reinstate our connection with those in the past...collectively, artworks such as this contributes towards shaping, defining and cementing our national identity...]