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err... since Amir Muhamad is a bumiputra and have invested a lots of money to make this documentary , can he ask his constitution MP ( such as from U Must Not Oppose party ) to talk to the home affair ministry to CLOSE ONE EYE on this matter , and only issue a so called "saman" to Amir. This have worked before at Melaka and I think should be work also now , with the condition that not oppposed by LKS laa...

I'm sure the movie will be spreaded thru torrent files by torrent users. Speaking about Chin Peng I would like to share something about him on Wikipedia.org

Click This : http://www.indiecom.net/index.php?itemid=184

Jeff... remember the picture of Chin Peng during the Baling talks? Looking at your picture on the top right corner of your blog page, I cannot help but notice that Chin Peng and you both have the same smile. Your smile has an uncanny resemblence to Chin Peng's. You both have the same cheeky grin and twinkly eyes!
I hope that's as far as the similarity goes. No offence intended... hehehe.

JEFF OOI says: At least you are kind enough not to relate my facial resemblance to Allahyarham Tan Sri Saardon Zubir. Why not let me see your face, too, so that I can relate you to Mr Somebody. Ok, the Almighty is watching you and us. He is most fair in giving me whatever face He deems fit.

Is there anyway to watch the screenings of this documentary?

Jeff... maybe someday we'll meet... but for the time being just look at Pierce Brosnan. Have a wonderful evening. Gtg.

JEFF OOI says: PB as in "The Tailor of Panama" or PB as in "Die Another Day"? Enjoy your evening.

Talk about history. If anyone puzzle about the old communist tabu : It all rooted back to WW2 Japannese occupation. "Some" locals are Japannese invaders assistants.

Still don't get it? Well, you can go to museum, check the school text book, you will find the World war 2 history are "fading" topics compare to British colonisation events.

And more of my 2 cents.

Instead of calling Amir Muhammad "LKT" a red films, you never know what attributes Amir will give to the films.

For example, if Amir put some China literature revolution script into "LKT", it will turn the film to anti-communism, anti-fasism , anti-herosim documentary.

Oh, its banned, eh? Where can I watch it?

- MENJ

3 attack from Berita harian currently - kaki kino (finas) issue, gubra issue and now last communist.

And this Akmal Abdullah wrote his report without ever watch/been there.

what's next from him.

Yet another incident of certain parties wanting to appear knowledgeable and patriotic... even when they had scant or zero actual knowledge of what they are talking / reporting about?

Tin kosong cari pasal a'je...

So whats the real politics down here? UMNO Youth adn Berita Harian worry about a possible resurgence of communism or its ideas? Come on. In Capitalist minded Malaysia? No way the Chinese here or for that matter the Malays or ...maybe Indians...are going to fall for communism after having drunk from the cup of capitalist mores.

It would seem more like UMNO Youth just cannot see one of their kind eulogising a Malaysian Chinese in film. Americans have made movies of all the bad guys on their land...I guess in Malaysia you could not make a movie about Botak Chin or Batang Kali or who ever...I wonder if there is a movie on Mona Fendi?

Why are they affraid about the real history? Was it because theres no malay heroism? or unislamic?

History is history. Period, Good or bad, we must learn to accept it & not to repeat the same mistakes.

TAR siezed the opportunity to take independence with his good connections with the british.

All around the world, the british colony were being fought thanks to the brave people in Israel. That spaked nationalism even to malaysia.

The communist too decided to defeat the british after their informal discussions & a the fatal attack on the british officers. They were the forefront forces that were against the british in Malaya.

So, the british decided to pack their bags & leave the responsibility of communism or any potential uprising to TAR.

And now, these guys that enjoy the freedom fought by others and discredit the communist & israel.

In every british colony, there was a revolt/fight (peaceful & non peaceful) before independence.

I think Universal is begining to sell their movies via Torrent/ online. Perhaps Amir could talk to Apple for a good deal.

The scariest thing here is that Berita Hairan is the leading malay paper in the country, and Akmal Abdullah's biased opinions and unfounded claims will trickle down to the masses, where the lesser educated folks might not be as discerning as some readers here, and might end up taking in every single word he says. Hence the continuation of a society which will never progress. But of course, this is a great plan. Stupid citizenry, will end up voting for the same stupid government. How smart.

So we live according to the rules decided by Akmal Abdullah and Berita Harian. WElcome to Malaysia.

Tomorrow Akmal gets out of bed in the morning and decides Friday should be a day for all to wear songkok, you will next have UMNO Youth championing it and very soon that will become law.

So Akmal decides Lelaki Komunnis is bad for you. So it is bad!..Next year or the following when the next GE comes around we still vote in MCA or MIC don't we? Forget about the elephant sized behemoth UMNO...can't shake them.

But isn't it about time MCA, MIC and Gerakan (Sorry Jeff, I know that is your party) be taught a lesson. They have failed all of us miserably. That is why you have little monkeys like Akmal, who I never heard of before this, can make monkey of our lives. Because they decide what is going to be an issue and what is not. And right now they have made everyone of us forget that the issue at this time should be Mohd Said Yusuf and he has gone away scot free. Congratulations KLS!

first commenter: Kentang's refers.

I wonder if you digested the content of the main blog regrading'funding' for Amir's LKT?

Amir did NOT invest 'lots of money' in IT, and don't introduce the factor of Amir Muhammad as "a bumiputra" into this case. Such as you are precisely the problem artiistes are encountering hurdles along their artistic pursuits -- don't inject this "race factor" into the ideology equation.

Anyway, Malaysian PMs have had travelled to Cuba and China -- vice versa -- and exchanged warm bear-hugs like they embraced the same faith or ideology. So what's this problem of Amir's film to journalists like Akmal Abdullah and ministers who can't even rise to the openness of the Censorship Board. Pak Lah's culture of fostering Towering Malaysians? Why do we go back to building town houses on coconut trees by the seafront -- breezy and not subject to urbanisation and communistisation?

PS: to add after ~~~(exchanged warm bear hugs)...with communist leaders like Fidel Castro, Deng Xiaping and other Chinese premiers past and present...Minta maaf, Desi

Does it matter that movie is banned? As piracy is rampant and widely available, it makes no difference whether a movie is banned or not.

The authorities have banned so many movies from screeing in Malaysia but we all still get to watch them thanks to illegal VCD/DVD petty traders.

As a matter of fact, it would be indeed a great publicity stunt for this movie. If I were Amir, I will start negotiating the rights of my movie with those illegal DVD movie traders.

well thomas

probably the pirated VCD pact would only work if it is being shown at local cinemas

The public has protested??? No one asked me! And my MP who is supposed to represent me can't say anything either other than "saya sokong". So who has protested?

It is indeed sad that in this age of GOOGLE, WEB 2.0, Bit Torrent, high speed broadband, total free flow of information, transparency and easy knowledge acquisition, etc., there still exist someone in Malaysia who would want to dictate what we can see and can not see. Red or Blue or Green, great ideologies or rotten ideas, who is he to say it is good or what is bad, even without haven watched the movie ? I think he is the victim and by product of the Cold War. Could someone please wake him up and inform him that the Cold War is officially over some 20 odd years ago.

If that chap or the bunch of chaps who still want to project themselves as the “anti-communist” super heroes (whatever that means and God knows what it means….) of the yesteryears, why don’t they confront and field questions to Amir the film maker, say after watching the movie in a Q&A session, similar to what the audience had in the Singapore International Film Festival that LKT was screened recently ? Isn’t that another sign of “First World infrastructure, Third World mentality”, i.e. not able to confront a problem head on or seek resolution but could only able to go back to the tactic domination and dictatorial approach to ban this and that.

For the budding Malaysian movie maker Amir, though I had not watched any of his films, I certainly salute and admire him. If there are more Malaysian film makers who could be as productive and as efficient as him, being able to produce a 90 min film with a RM80,000 grant over 4 weeks, I think very soon, KL will join the Bollywood and Hollywood as an international renown movies capital. Hope the ban will not “kill” him as a potential “Steven Spielberg” of Malaysia.

chin Peng is not my hero. However, they should check the legal issues here since movie was passed by the censorship board.Can the Ministry of Home affairs determine unilaterally on issues such as this? How come Chin peng's books are available in the bookshops and movies are banned from screening? Why the inconsistent decision? Get the Bar council to look into this please somebody? To let this go unchallenged will lead to bigger abuse of authority.
racist behaviour in the mass media is unhealthy. However, Akmal Abdullah's comment is no different from many comments posted on this blog when it comes to racial issues.

just download it via bittorrent... google it u'll find s many kind heart people willing to share it. Sorry Mr amir ... cant pay u for it.. dont blame me ok. being force to do it this way...