Monday, March 02, 2009

This should have been over months ago!

Yet once again I find myself at the very same crossroads I faced in September, where I have to for a second time make the impossible decision of whether to stay with Mass Communications or to hop on to the FSV band wagon.
But if I even have to reconsider a second time, doesn't it mean I stuck to the wrong choice?
I mean I'm already good at writing(I HOPE), so mass comm would just be building ONTO that. Yes I know the course teaches a whole lot of other stuff, but advertising and COMMUNICATING just seems to pale to insignificance when it comes to telling MY STORIES. And my passion has always been for movies right?
So I would think the answer is laid out in giant wooden letters before my rescue helicopter. But again, one worry I always have with Singapore, will they take that love and passion I have for film, and warp and twist it for their own benefits? Is this how all local filmmakers end up? They get into the courses fresh faced, then somehow go out as Jack Neo crap film wannabes? Could their plight be due to the countless hours of brainwashing to watch bad local films with little substance? Because of the pride we local Asian filmmakers should have for our culture(WHAT culture?) we're not a very open bunch of people. Singaporeans are not exactly to most forgiving humans are we? Everything must be "law by law". You say anything else, you're sort of committing career suicide. Could this fear be the reason why our local TV programmes still stick to freaking local soap operas that no one with half a brain watches?
But I'm getting ahead of myself. It may even be too late to appeal. Let's hope if I DO get into FSV, I have the moral fibre to get through with my individuality attached. If I don't, let's hope I get through with...Let's hope I get through.

Da_movie_kid was shot at 7:56 PM