Gender and class in the Singaporean film 881 – Brenda Chan

I have chosen to evaluate this article because I feel that gender and class play a big role in modern and old films, which interests me. Brenda Chan – an assistant professor in Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, wrote the article.

The article is explaining about how Singapore film production started in the 1920’s and 30’s and how it success grew from there on as it explains to the audience about how they experienced a golden age and about how Singaporean movie directors have received academic attention due to their commercial features and or if they have been critically acclaimed in the film festival circuits – for example Jack Neo who made the film Money No Enough (1998) who “holds the record of being the top-grossing locally produced movie and ranks the fourth top-grossing film in Singapore after Spiderman 3 (2007), Titanic (1997) and Jurassic Park (1997)”.

The main points of the article are to point out Singapore’s success in the film industry, and to show how certain directors ‘depict’ people whether they are in upper or lower class especially Royston Tan’s film 881. The film gave Tan a supposed ‘bad boy’ reputation with Singaporean media authorities and displeased the government.