The parasitic pirate life

Surin Gnanalingam
Director and Story teller

It is ironic to find a DVD named 'The DVD - pirate copy' from the friendly neighbourhood DVD peddler. This movie is a low key 2008 Malaysian (bilingual Cantonese and Manglish) movie which hadreceived 2 international indie movie awards (California Indie fest Excellence Award 2009 and entrance to South African International Movie festival). It is a story of a college boy, his widowed mum and his involvement with the big bad dudes of the illegal DVD business which is closely related to the city gangsters.
At one look, on screen, it looks like everybody in Kuala Lumpur seem to be donning T-shirts bearing logos of English Premier league clubs like that seem to be the national costume of Malaysian teenagers, which actually is quite true. Teenagers and even adults alike, have no love attached to our local national football teams as they are all in doldrums run by pompous feudalistic monarchs and their cronies just to laze off their free time !
A good 85 minute movie but does not really stand out. It feels like a made for TV Disney movie with PG13 rating! Actually there are only a few scenes with knives being brandished but hardly any flesh being exposed unless young ladies gyrating in the usual spaghetti dress or tubes as tasteless!