Watched Singapore Dreaming last Sunday night. A movie. Below is the synosis.
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Singapore Dreaming” ( 美满人生 ) is a story about a family with big dreams, living on a small island.
Heavily in debt, patriarch Loh Poh Huat can’t help but feel bitter irony whenever he has to perform his job as a lawyer’s clerk – seizing goods from the homes of credit card debtors. At the end of his career and frustrated by the gulf between his middle class dreams and his working class reality, he takes his feelings of failure and envy out on his family .
So when Poh Huat suddenly wins two million dollars in the lottery, the Lohs start believing that maybe this windfall will deliver them from their struggles. But something happens which pitches the family into a battle where the stakes are the very meaning of life itself…
“ Singapore Dreaming” is a poignant, yet darkly humorous story about a typical Singaporean family coming to grips with their aspirations. It weaves a layered and moving tale about a family dealing with loss, ambition and the search for what really matters in life.
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Set me thinking, how is it possible to dream in Singapore itself? Where prices and inflation are going up? I think the dream of owning a car should never exist at all. Hmmmm, unless Singapore get much bigger in size, and ERP will not be important for the use of controlling traffic.
Haiz... won 2 million and die.... lied to own gf about his own education... fighting for the father's money during the wake... well... very real.
Reality of life, is that money always not enough.
And love too, easily being misunderstood by people around.
Love and Lust and Greed, are real and around us...
Haiz... we poor humans...
*background... wan chun feng... the theme song from the movie.*
Website : http://www.singaporedreaming.com/
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