Much ado about local films


AFTER the controversy over the movie Tanda Putera, now comes another controversial film The New Village.

It seems that every local film with a “nationalistic” theme or background is seen either as “glorifying the communists”, “inciting racial hatred” or even “insulting one’s religion”.

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