It is in these films that cultural content, attitudes and values are passed on.
Take Singapore, for example. Local filmmakers broach subjects like teenage gangsterism, economics and family relationships telling of our history and responses.
Will films be used to integrate kingdom values or spiral local viewers into a fascination with horror, darkness and entrapment in their past strife? Let us pray for each nation:
THAI CINEMA
A taste for horror exists in the films.
PRAY : PEACE
VIETNAM CINEMA
The Travelling Circus (Ganh xiec rong, 1988), directed by Viet Linh, was a tale about a small troupe of itinerant players who convince naive, starving villagers that they can conjure rice out of nothing.
In 2003, Le Hoang's Bar Girls (Gai nhay, 2003), with its realistic portrait of the sleazy nightlife in Ho Chi Minh City smashed all box-office records.
PRAY : TRUTH
INDONESIAN CINEMA
Folklore tales are common, like one about a creature endowed with magical powers, The Monkey Kasaroeng (Loetoeng kasaroeng), made by two Dutch directors, G. Kruger and L. Heuveldorp, in 1926.
PRAY : REDEMPTION
Photo credits: Asian Geographic. Text adapted from here
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