Young with Dream

His name is Boo JunFeng. He is a director. Highlights: Young (very) and lengzai. and this, is his first movie... Sandcastle



My friend and I went to the cinema to watch a movie called "Blog Aloud" All i knew at that point was this is a gay movie as it was advrtised on fridae. As usual i am not the kind who really check out what the film is about, the rating etc. etc. All is concern is who i am watching and in this case, there will be a gay crowd.. =p (which it does, more detail later.. )

But only later on to realize this isnt exactly a movie.. rather a collection of Boo JunFengMs production since 2004 (and i was told he is about 19 yo back then..) Anyway, the short films were interesting I suppose, 2 on gay themes, one that tells us "sex is love" (this piece is really cool), then a piece that i intepreted as young Singaporean who came back from overseas and seems to loath everything here.. (this one i cud be wrong, but at least many i know are like that anyway.. =p )

So at the end of the show, there was a feedback / Q and A session with JunFeng (gosh, as if he is a close friend.. junfeng.. =p *lengzai ma..*) My impression was he is really young looking, lengzai (again, i realize i cant emphasize enough of this) and he works with lots of lengzais in his work. Sandcastle main cast too in this case.. Another funny thing to note though is he used a lot of "u know, u know" in his answers or speech.. must be nervous.. in fact eventually the emcee was using this phrase a lot too.. if i have a counter it cud be like 100 plus time in the 20 minutes interval.

Then, there was this middle age gay who ask this question, something like, "You have been producing so m any gay works, and RECEIVING SUPPORT FROM THE GAY COMMUNITY ( the movie and fridae sponsor), do u think u will be casted as a gay director? "

Somehow My intepretation of the question was simply "are u gay?" and my intepretation of the answer was 'yes, i am' as after the 5 minute long explanation and the 20 plus "u know" in between, he said this line "it is something close to my heart.." so? what wud u think this means?

But the reason i quote this question is not so much for the revelation, rather on the part the middle age man way of saying "support from the gay communiy", his tone and choice of words reflects really strongly of a gay community identity (which i think is good, to be proud of who u r) but at the same time seemingly demanding seomthing back (which i strongly despise). I mean, giving support is because u recognize someones' work, or showing a unity when there islike still half the earth population disgreeing with us.. even among ourselves, as i have met a self claim gay who use 'u people' to describe gay, and excluding himself!? So yea, we dont have to expect someone to return a favour when we show support righta. if u feel he is taking advantage of this community, just stop showing support, but asking for something back is not really the way IMO... thus i was kinda annoyed when i heard the way he question lengzai junfeng.. he is scaring the poor young cutie!! *He wont be forgiven unless he sponsor a million dollar for his next production! *

Conclusion, a very unique movie experience to see the director himself there.. all the more young and lengzai and gay (i think) and probably talented (i am not a film person but i heard of Cannes, and his work was there..) So yup, show ur support..

**SandCastle**