P1 Malaysia Showcase

P1 Malaysia Showcase is a platform for Malaysia independent filmmakers to create their creative idea which related and recognized in the country. It is a project with collaboration between P1 and 15 of Malaysia's most talented independent filmmakers.

I have watched one of the video before since I was still in secondary school which is <potong saga> by Ho Yuhang. I noticed the P1 Malaysia Showcase sign during that time but I have no idea what it is, until this semester, I able to watch the rest and understand more on this project. Thanks to the syllabus of this MMC subject.

We have watched 3 of the P1 Malaysia Showcase video which are <Duit Kecil>, <Lolipop> and <Meter>.

From these 3 videos, the one that I have most feeling toward it is <Meter> by Lim Benji. This is because it has reflected a lot of issues that happened around our country in the aspect of politic, society, development of Malaysia and more. They discuss a lot of topic within the video which include our national football team, our national language, party hopping issues and lastly with the topic of "what is malaysia?".  Firstly, the taxi driver mentioned that English is the most important language in Malaysia, my opinion towards this statement, yes, it is important. I love the way how he describe how important it is when he said "when we work in Nasa we can't just say [huston, kami ada masalah] right?". Yes, Malay is our national language and we have to practice it because we are part of the motherland. But it doesn't means we have to practice it in every aspect of our life. I have to say it because this is reality, we are not just living by ourselves; we are connected whole around the world and we need English language because it is the only communication tools to the others. So, as a Malaysian, we have to accept this reality and truth that English is much more important and I don't really encourage and support the position that government changes the syllabus of the government school subject into Malay language. This is because when the students wanted to proceed their further studies in University or Oversea study, they don't even have to basic knowledge or basic term of the particular subject in English. For an example, we learn some biological term like "cell" as the English term and "sel" as the Malay term. The students need to learn these term during their secondary school syllabus, so is better for the students to learn since they started to learn these term, is easier for them to proceed their studies in future. Do government expect the students to re-exercise all the term in English if they have learn it in Malay language in secondary education? Besides from these, I have heard some rumor from my parents or eldest which their perception toward the government control the knowledge or language learning of the people, this might because they don't want the people to be so clever and good critical thinking, so that the government can control the majority people in the country. This statement is not verify the truth, yet we still can take it as a hypothesis from the other perception toward this issue. 

The next video that I wanted to discuss is <Lolipop> by Nam Ron>. From the video, at first we thought that it is just a video to reflect the issue of sexual assault in the current society. But after a discussion with my group mate, we create our own interpretation toward the content and cinematography of the video. I believe that the hidden message within the video is related to the legal loophole. When the boy being sexual assaulted by his father, he started to become mentally disorder and unstable mind condition. Then the scene shows the video that one of the government officials success in appeal against the high court's decision. I believe in this scene shows that the injustice law played by the rich or high status people which they able to run away from any law action even they have done something wrong. This made him wanted to conduct any crime activities because he doesn't care or scare about this injustice law system in our country which the people play with the legal loophole. So he started to take out his unsatisfactory feeling by harm the another victim.

In the video <Duit Kecil>, it is the easiest interpretation can be found in the video. Firstly, it is actually reflecting the economic issues happen in Malaysia which the prostitute started to complain they can't afford this that and even our daily usage in Malaysia is more expensive than Singapore the top country in South East Asia. Besides, I do actually reflect the story of this video into the story of government probes the public where as the man is the government and the prostitute is the public. Firstly, the man probes the prostitute is like government looking for their supporter to support them. Then after the underground business done, it reflects the election for the government has done. During the discussion between the prostitute and man is like reflecting the issue that the public ask and complain about the problem of the society to the government. But still, the man does not has any action toward them yet he just want to get back his small change, this is like reflecting the government does not care what the public want but they just want to get back their benefit. Lastly, when the man ask for next service from the girl is like the government ask for the people to vote them, but of course, the girl is not satisfy his action which also reflect how the people react to the inefficient government.

These are my interpretation of these video's hidden message, it might be wrong, it might be right, but it is a abstract perception of my personal experience in watching this video. I hope everyone can leave the comment if you have any other perception toward these videos.