Simple is the Reason of My Heart

The Economics about Banning Political Films

I have been thinking about the political films discussion that took place during the Seminar on Internet Regulatory Reform. Two of my colleagues, Alex Au aka Yawning Bread and Gerald Giam have voiced their opinions about section 35 in the Films Act and their reaction to the comments made by Mr Cheong Yip Seng, the Chairman of the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society (AIMES). Alex Au is worried that AIMES may be trying hard to justify why section 35 should stay after hearing Mr Cheong's point about the high impact factor that a political film can sway how people think after his visit to a conference in Canada. To reinforce his point, Mr Cheong also cited that Japan and Korea were the other two countries that banned political films. On the other hand, Gerald took a different position by arguing that the political films act benefit PAP more than the other opposition parties. In this post, I adopt the relationship between the demand & supply with the impact of a political film to explain why banning section 35 is a worse option for the PAP to stay in power.

Conversation(s) With Other Women

Yesterday, upon reading many interesting reviews about this movie "Conversation(s) with Other Women", I decided to catch it with my girlfriend in Cineleisure Orchard. Actually, we both enjoyed the movie, granted the good humour and frank discussion among the two leads, Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter (who we never did know their names in the end but only the people surrounding them) on life, romance, sex and love. The cinematography was interesting because it split the screen into two, with two different perspectives to the same subject, and sometimes, an alternate universe viewpoint about how each character saw in their past, present and future.

If you are one of those people who loved "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset" (which is in my all time top 5 romance movies, I would say that this one has now entered into that category), I would say that this movie cast a similar perspective to a dialogue between two people (the man and the woman), who slowly bring you into the story. Do note that you need to listen to their dialogue carefully, because there are a couple of twists and turns in the story nicely meshed in the background. If you are sharp from the very start, you will realize that there is something more than meets the eye.