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So, we read about the ban on the local produced film Lelaki Komunis Terakhir (The Last Communist) on all major papers. The censorship board have passed it in “U” rating and the Ministry of Home Affairs banned it. Strangely, they didn’t ban Chin Peng’s autobiography. Man, this is really a boleh land. Anything can happen. Anything.

I haven’t watch it and I don’t know if it ever will be available to the public so that we can have a picture of how our grandparents and parents lived the “emergency” years. How was it like during the emergency years. This is very informative and we could learn from the mistakes of the past generations so that it won’t happen again. We don’t want to be like the coward Japanese who write only the glory side of their WWII campaign but not the head chopping of countless innocents. We must let the younger generations (like me) to know the past, the hardship suffered that led to the easy life we all take for granted today.

My late grandfather, who was a police who fought the communist in the jungles in the northern region (Baling?) many many years ago, told us (the grandchildren) before of his days in the thick jungles, etc. We all heard of the stories, but a pictorial presentation will make it even more “etched” into our brains. If this film is well received by the rakyat, it will only make the director & producers feel encouraged and would make more films of some other noble independence fighters like Tunku, Tun Sambanthan, Temenggung Jugah, Donald Stephen (what’s his Islam name?), Sir Tun Tan Cheng Lock and many more. Fuck, how about Sir Gerald Templer ???? Yes, Templer’s Park (near my hometown) named after him. That place was declared “black” area…. because of active communist activities during the emergency. We need to hear both sides of the story. Likewise, we always watch in WWII war films how great the Allieds were… have we seen anything from the Axis? Nazi, Imperial Army ? If there’s any, please let me know. I wanna watch. Serious. Der Untergang ?

The Berita Harian is so racist. The Ministry of Home Affairs is so stupid. They banned the film because of the protests by the public. So why the Da Vinci Code is not banned despite the more outrages and controversies in the papers in Malaysia and worldwide & in the internet. 50% of the Catholics if not 100%(approx. 1 billion) worldwide protested both the book and film. Why is it still being approved and gonna be showing in cinemas this May 18th in Malaysia? Malaysian population is just a fraction of 500 million. They (the ministry) don’t even realized that many Catholics objected the Da Vinci’s Code, do they?

As the director said in his blog, the Berita Harian paper is a conservative newspaper whose cultural politics verges on the ethnocentric and semi-fascist. He may have his point here. Racist. I really wonder if the film is about Rashid Maidin (Chin Peng’s comrade). Would it be approved because En. Rashid is a Malay?!

We all have the right to see what we want, hear what we want and talk what we want. They said this is a democracy country, isn’t it? How can they deprive us from the informations that we ought to know for our better well being in the future, learn the mistakes of out forefathers, bla bla bla. Well, Chin Peng is a Chinese apek. Maybe thats the reason. So, if a film about Yap Ah Loy (the founder of Kuala Lumpur), will it also be a controversy that would lead to a ban? Yap Ah Loy is a Chinese apek too. Without the Chinese, I wonder what would Malaysia be now… oops, I mean Tanah Melayu. There won’t be “Malaysia”. Economy would be worse than Zimbabwe. So, if some quarter of the population object the film (The Last Communist), just don’t fucking show up at the cinema and boycott all the DVD, VCD, VHS, Torrent, Podcast, AVI, Real, MPG, BluRay, HD-DVD etc etc versions of the film (if they are to distrubute to the masses). Now because of some racist, we can’t attend history lesson. What the fuck.