Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Of Censorship and Malaysia

Imagine this : you're watchin a scene on The O.C. or One Tree Hill where there is a boy and a girl, both gazing into each others eyes , a "moment" thing.. Then, both of them start to lock lips.. sparks start to fly.. When suddenly, the scene skips and the next thing u know, the girl ends up crying n running away? or they jz 'suddenly' end up in each others arms in bed or maybe jz skip to the next mornin?

Or lets say, ur watchin wrestling ( ok ok .. so none of u do anymore.. i did.. last time) , the guy has a chair in his hand, and the other guy is kneeling on d ground and the next obvious step would be a chair to the head rite?? But all u see is the chair layin on the floor wit the someones head all bloody.. U missed the chair shot! .. Or another action scene where the guy is about to decapitate another guys head.. but all u get to see in d end is jz a bloody sword and a head rolling ..

This is what u get when u watch shows on national tv and the censorship board goes all crazy n starts snippin this n that.. Yes, im sure most, if not all of you are totally against the way our national censorship board. (no im not gonna refer it as cb cos it will mean sumthin else dat i oways hear ppl around me say :P) I mean.. scenes like kissing, or making out, or mild violence cant be shown on tv meh?? Sure, i dont expect nudity or real intercourse to be show on national tv la.. but c'mon.. if its just kissing or sumthin liddat and it maybe an important part of the show.. show la... -.-'' And dont get me started on the voilent scenes considered 'too voilent for tv' in fear dat the young ones will follow thier acts.

They (the government) thinks that social ills which occur in this country is influenced highly by what the ppl see on tv. They think by seeing ppl kissing or making out, it will lead to pre-marital sex and teenage pregnancy. They also think that by seeing someone chop someones head off with a samurai blade, youngsters ( or more like stupid idiots) will follow in this act n hack off thier friend's head tryin to recreate this act. If so, why is the government actually showin dat Remp-It flick? Isnt there scenes of intamicy? or voilence? or worse mindless stupid illegal racing?

Well, actually, its fine with me if they wanna show all that, but please be fair la, showing this and not showing foriegn flicks which has less 'disturbin scenes' like Daredevil or Farenheit 9/11 ? Whats this nonsense?? Actually there are more flicks which didnt get to make it to our malaysian shores which im not gonna mention ..

Oh, and whn they decided to 'loosen' thier grip on the Da Vinci Code, what did we get to see? some white boy's bare ass!! knn ccb.. i bet if it was a girl, that scene would totally be cut away , agreed? Hmm.. seems like im venting my frustration bout d censorship board on this post eh? Well, i'm kinda la.. Injustice i call this!! freakin govnt. They still think the rakyat is so dumb, so back minded that we dont know how to differenciate between whats right n whats not? whats logical n whats impractical to do? Again.. thn why show a flick about illegal racing n making it all glamourous n all?

Dont u think its about time they become a lil more considerate n a lil modern an a lil less sensitive? I dont expect it to be like d western countries cos we are after all, asians with eastern values.. but more lenient like.. say... singapore? or china?? Hmm.. what about readin material? it has to be said, although we do have our own tonned down versions of mags, its still lacking that extra 'umph' that the other publishers have.. haha. dont know what im talkin about ? go pick up a copy of FHM malaysia and FHM singapore.. Dont need to say US or UK version la.. jz our neigbouring country can show us how conservetive we are.

Hmmm.. i think i'll better end this post abruptly b4 d law gets to me for writing sensitive n false material!! .. hahaha.. but again.. i would like to stress.. we malaysians are not dat stupid or kuno la. Its those ppl who think they're doin 'the right thing' for us.. they should be shot! hahaha . ' do da right thing!! be a man!!'