| Wednesday, October 14, 2009 |
| Talentime |
Talentime – Director’s statement (21 February 2009)
While writing a script, I try not to think about where the story is going. I don’t even want to know how it will end. Instead, I embark upon a journey half in darkness into my memories, and the honest, forgotten feelings that I have about them. In other words, I wait for spontaneous form to appear.
While writing “Talentime”, I pieced together bits of memory from various parts of my school life. The singing contests and the stage dramas that I participated in, the friendships that were struck along the way, and the romantic adventures that surrounded them. But what began as a simple high school musical slowly became something much bigger. After watching the first off-line edit of the film, we all sat back, staring at each other in silence. Some of us were crying. Our little film had turned out to be a sharp critical reflection of the current state of our mutli-racial, multi-cultural country.
“Talentime” had become a heartfelt plea for harmony, in a country where the different races are gradually drifting apart. |
| posted by norhayati @ 7:37 PM |
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