“三个好人”/ “One more chance”
I know this is a food blog, but do bear with my totally unrelated to food entry.
“三个好人” is the latest Jack Neo’s movie which is officially released this week. It’s the first movie in Singapore to be shot in an actual prison. It chronicles the life of three guys who committed the crimes and were sentenced to jail. However, they do not only serve their jail term. They were sentenced to a lifetime jail by the society and the people around them.
This movie is released in tandem with the Yellow Ribbon Project, a project to create awareness of giving second chances to ex-offenders, generate acceptance of ex offenders and their families into the community, and inspire community action to support the rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-offenders.
I personally like this movie pretty much. It’s a humourous show with many touching moments, especially towards the end of the movie. Overall, the show has clearly portrayed the difficulties ex-offenders faced after they’re released from jail and also effectively spread the message of giving a second chance to ex-offenders. It’s a pretty good local movie to catch on the whole.
Somehow, being in an Asian society, we tend to be very unforgiving towards mistakes. A lot of people have given me very negative view towards ex-offenders, and also questioned me about how do we differentiate who are the ex-offenders who are really sincere towards changing their ways, and who are those who do not deserve a second chance at all. I don’t know the answers for these questions. Personally, I just feel that it’s always better to gain another productive member in the society than to perpetuate another societal problem. Merely throwing people into prison for committing a crime may not be the best solution sometimes, but rather it’s more on how we can prevent crimes and to stop ex-offenders from committing a crime again.
If I knew earlier that there was going to be a “Sakae sushi” reception at the movie premiere, I won’t have eaten such a full dinner before it. Haha, but I enjoyed the movie premiere that day. =P
