Thursday, February 15, 2007

Protégé

I watched the movie before it was released today.

No lah! I didn't go and buy pirated VCD of the show. I support ORIGINAL ya?

It just happened that when i went over to Jurong Point for a midnight movie(as usual) on Saturday(10/2), Protégé is currently showing. Don't ask me why GV can screen a movie before it is released.



It is a very good movie and it is telling you a simple message: drugs are evil, be it you are the one hooked on it or the one selling it.

In this movie, they focus more on the one selling drugs. The whole movie don't do any fantasy story-telling but show you drug trafficking in its most true and natural form. I tell you, it isn't a very pretty sight.

Than, they also show you people on the other end of the food-chain, the drug addicts. The focus is on a single mother who is trying to kick the addiction but succumbs everytime the addiction kicks in, a typical situation for drug addicts everywhere.

What make me rate this movie as the best this holiday season is that the whole story is simple yet painful. Reality is shown to you without any effort to disguise it. The aim of drug sellers is simple and that is to make as much money as possible. They don't care whether they are hurting anyone or causing any social problems. To them, it is just a business. On top of this, it also set you thinking on how can we really define someone as bad or good?

A must-watch movie i would say.