After Friday’s capoeira class, a few of us were talking in the kopitiam. I mentioned seeing in the Straits Times that Saint Jack, which was unbanned recently, would be having a couple of showings in the Arts House.
This film was famously filmed surreptitiously on location in Singapore, with the Film Board having been given a totally different working title and plot synopsis by the film makers. On release, when the authorities here saw what the film really was, they immediately banned it.
I would love to see it. Since it was filmed on location, it’s pretty much the only way to see the old Singapore, the entrepot port city before development kicked in and destroyed so many old communities and ways of life; the Singapore that Conrad would probably still have recognized.
So, yesterday I went to buy a ticket.It was completely sold out. I should have run there as soon as I saw the announcement in the paper, I guess. You gotta be fast in this town…
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