Catching Up to the Past (Three Weeks)
Whew! Time sure flies by fast when your busy dangling between doing assignment and honing the fine arts of procrastination. It's been three weeks since my last post, and alot have happened, Pn. Raja Rodziah have started teaching about the Malaysian film history in our MM&C class. New assignment have been given and several movies have been shown. (No shots have been fired, yet...) Now, without further ado, let's start the recap. On week 9, Dr. Carmen have shown us a movie titled Big Durian by filmmaker Amir Muhammad. It's a mockumentary about the real event of Prebet Adam Mengamuk in 1987's Chow Kit Road. As a born and raised Kuala Lumpurian myself, this event that transpired 6 years before my birth is totally unheard of to me, and it's happening on the streets that I have walk past countless time. It seems like my parent's generation, the children who have experienced the May 13 tragedy personally have mastered the skill of repressing sad histo