The big durian [videorecording] / Amir Muhammad.
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TextPublication details: Malaysia, Doghouse73 Pictures : 2003.Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 074 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Production credits: - Director, Amir Muhammad ; featuring, Anne James Farisha : A.Noor Namron : Jo Kukathas : Patrick Teoh Rashid Salleh Low Ngai Yuen : Salleh Ben Joned ; music, Hardesh Singh.
- Official selection Sundance Film Festival, 2004.
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Director, Amir Muhammad ; featuring, Anne James Farisha : A.Noor Namron : Jo Kukathas : Patrick Teoh Rashid Salleh Low Ngai Yuen : Salleh Ben Joned ; music, Hardesh Singh.
The playful, probing docu-essay The Big Durian revisits a 1987 shooting spree by a Malay soldier who ran amok in a predominantly Chinese area of Kuala Lumpur - an incident that coincided with a spike in racial tensions and general paranoia. Days later, the government detained a hundred or so people under the Internal Security Act, a tool for silencing its critics.
Named for the thorny local friuit and unafraid to take on a variety of prickly Malaysian taboos, prejudices, and urban legends, The Big Durian ends up a sober critique of the country's 'neo-feudal' politics (as one interviewee puts it) and an impertinent love letter to its people that doesn't let them off the hook for their apathy.
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Amir Muhammad. (2003). The big durian. Malaysia: Doghouse73 Pictures.
Malay, English, Cantonese and Hokkien with English subtitles.
Official selection Sundance Film Festival, 2004.
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