If there is a time capsule in which you can put
something and with the advanced technology used, the capsule is
self-sustainable for the next hundred years, what would you like to put in it
so that people in the future generation can have better understanding of what
we are seeing, listening and experiencing every day in our lives? This is one
of the questions popped up in my mind after watching the second movie of local
director Tan Pin Pin. Documentary is a better description of her second movie
as the 60-minute film had been used to capture some of the familiar but yet
mundane scenes in everyday life here in Singapore. School assembly, fire drill,
construction workers’ siesta, fumigation in HDB area, road crossings with
counting down traffic light, newly opened MRT, empty shopping complex etc. No
storyline but one can watch the movie with imagination and the appropriate
duration of each scene enables the audience to pause a little bit to think and
reflect before move on to another scene. Everyone would have different
storyline based on the very personal experience the one have had before
watching the film.
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