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To Singapore, with Love (星国恋）full movie - banned in Singapore

Yubby Smith

May 29, 2020

"To Singapore, with Love (星国恋）was banned in Singapore for "undermining national security" in 2014.

 
From the film's website www.tosingaporewithlove.com:

 
Singapore political exiles, some of whom have not been home for 50 years, talk about the City of their dreams.

 
Director Tan Pin Pin 陈彬彬 attends a funeral in the hills of southern Thailand, a family reunion in Malaysia and goes for a drive through the English countryside, searching the world for the displaced souls of Singapore: different generations of Singaporean political exiles who have not been able to come home. Some have not returned for 50 years. They are now in their 60′s to 80′s. Some were activists, student leaders, others were card carrying communists. Though they are from different political persuasions, they all fled Singapore in the 1960’s, 1970s and 1980′s to escape the prospect of detention without trial carried out by the British Colonial Government and later, by the Singapore Government.

 
It is clear that while up to 50 years may have passed, the idea of Singapore is still very much on their minds. “Singapore oh Singapore, you are still on my mind, today and everyday” intones a poem written by one of them. As they recount their lives, we see a City that could have been. A love letter to Singapore, from the outside.

 
Interviewees

 
Ho Juan Thai 何元泰 

Ang Swee Chai & the late Francis Khoo 洪瑞釵与邱甲祥 

Wong Soon Fong 黄信芳 

The late Liu Bo 刘波 

Tan Wah Piow 陈华彪 

Mr & Mrs Tan Hee Kim 陈喜金与 叶婉珍 

Chan Sun Wing 陈新嵘 

Mr & Mrs He Jin 贺巾与 苏世华 

Dr Poh Soo Kai 傅树介"