Sunday, October 05, 2014

"Why should we allow them (the exiled), through a movie, to present an account of themselves not of documentary history objectively presented, but that is a self-servigig personal account, conveniently inaccurate in places, glossing over inconvenient facts and others, which will sully the honour and reputation of the security people and the brave men and women who fought the Communists all those many years in order to create today's Singapore?"

~ Hsien-Loong Lee
on MDA's decision to not allow filmmaker Tan Pin Pin's "To, Singapore, WIth Love" for local distribution.