"It is full of nonsense."
Oh, you mean a director's statement is not an actual statement? Right, right, let me start again.
See, the thing about Singaporean short films is that the majority of them are emo, angsty, and gay. I like them (who doesn't secretly like emo?) but then again I feel they gave a very skewed representation of Singapore. If we all died in a freak meteorite strike, future generations who dig up our short films would think that we were a very emo, angsty, and gay nation. But that not's true.
Singapore is really a pretty fun place to live in, if not for the weather. Bitch all you want about the economy or the government or foreign talent, the fact of the matter is what we are a pretty interesting bunch and we do have many (free) activities to waste our time on.
You can look all the weirdos on the MRT, for one. Laugh at the bewildered looks of tourists trying to figure out our national language - a bizarre mishmash of four languages. Go to the zoo (it is really pretty engrossing). Pay $100 to go into a casino. OK maybe not the last one.
So I set out to make a short film to defy all these norms that short films have set. A road trip, a comedy, just about a bunch of Singaporeans doing silly things. Of course, I also wanted to be special and be a pioneer and all that. But that has never detracted from my ultimate goal.
To entertain you.
Jeremy and Wenxu are currently editing the film. And if you would like to support Marcus' work, catch Silver Lining on Channel 5 every Tuesday, 8:30pm . He is one of the writers for the show.
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