Extra Credit 1

To Singapore, with Love (2013) is a film by Tan Pin Pin documenting Singapore political exiles. His intentions were create a masterpiece around this family's issues. And his goal was to show the true cruelty and mistreatment that these people had to go through. He documented there whole experience as an exile. It starts off in Singapore, as the Singaporean government is kicking them off of the family land. They had to pack up their stuff and leave. Unfortunately some of the things they had on there property were the graves of family members passed away. They had to dig up their graves remove their bones and bring it with them. This was to really emphasize the miss treatment that they had to undergo. Seeing this physically happen was horrifying and completely appalling. This really made you sympathise with the poor family. After this the movie cuts. And then the film skips forward to the United Kingdom. It has now been decades in time and the family is still exiled from the country. Many of the elders wonder if they are going to make it back. Two of the original family members had past away but everyone else was still alive. These people just want to go back to there home but they were forbidden. Tan Pin Pin did an excellent job in creating this masterpiece. They covered nothing up showing the most raw and graphic shots. Many different angles and camera shots were taken. There was everything from extreme close ups to long shots. Different camera angles to best capture the different moments of what was occuring.  I definitely think that he achieved his goal and then some. His work is not only extremely creative. It was extremely time consuming. Spanding over many decades in the words of the Lincoln Center Film Society, “This film was expertly crafted and enormously moving.” I couldn't agree more with this statement. It is the perfect way to describe this piece and I would highly recommend anyone to go see it.