Lets boycott Malaysian films!
Browsing through the newspaper today after a long nap really makes me mad when the Malaysia Film Producers Association (MFPA) illogically suggests that the ticket for foreign a.k.a Hollywood movies should be priced higher to force movie goers to opt for locally made movies, however boring they are (emphasis added).
Well, well, well...suddenly we live in a communist country and even worst than living in actual communist nation like China. To make up for their low quality and mundane movies they opt to force, and really the Association uses the word force, movie lovers to pay more for foreign films. If the government really takes the matter literally there won't be a single audience in the cinema as most local films are let downs. Rather than enjoying themselves the audience will be tortured and exhausted and by the time they come out they will be more exhausted than before they go in. Movies are supposed to be enjoyable and relaxing and not mentally-draining experience.
Even great movie producers nation like India has never done or consider illogical, tyrannical suggestion as made by MFPA to attract movie goers to see local films. They don't need to because their films are at par with foreign or outside ones. Even today Hindi films still attract millions of fans within and outside India.
Such proposal is of course comes from desperate people who depend solely on making and producing films and their predicament is certainly valid but to force people of doing something is totally out of the question. Religion like Islam itself never force people to embrace it. But again living in Bolehland, everything is possible and I will not be surprised when movie tickets will be more expensive. Just look at locally made Malaysian cars. The prices are exorbitant though they are locally made and assembled but people still buy them because foreign made cars are even more expensive!
Desperate people do the most illogical things and for them the cause certainly warrants the means although it may be against freedom and this issue refers to freedom of choice - a very sacred consumer right whereby consumer has the right to choose based on his or her interest as well as the quality of such product.
Day by day, I feel living in this nation very suffocating with too many do's and dont's just to make small portion of the society happy. I believe I can understand why people look down at Malaysia since it is really a third world nation despite its claim that it is a developed country.
I am very fortunate since I am not a movie goer
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