Re: Malaysia call to ban film suicide

blaming it on TV shows will not help, helping the poor will.


witszeroin@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
The Patriarchal or Big Brother kneejerk is through this standard
remedy - ban away anything that makes governance more demanding(the
hell with your liberties). Immediate gain is in maintaining of
laziness. Keeping ppl immature and unthinking being the secondary long
term self-benefitting spinoff enabling continuing laziness and ease in
governance.

Instinctively they know that intelligent ppl will make more demands
than they're prepared to accord. So ban away......regular half past
six responses.

Timmermans wrote:
No kiss, no pigs, no swearing, no suicide and who knows wht more... what's
next?

Why bother, why not ban tv right away?

Steven


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Malaysia call to ban film suicide

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5153376.stm

By Jonathan Kent
BBC News, Kuala Lumpur

A Malaysian minister has called for suicide scenes to be cut from imported
Indian films, amidst concerns that they are leading to copy-cat incidents.

His remarks come days after a young Tamil mother threw herself and two of
her children in front of a train.

The deaths of K Sanggita and her daughters, Sacheria and Esther, have
shocked Malaysia.

Suicides are a common dramatic feature in Indian films, especially those
made for Tamil audiences.

Tamil poverty

After apparently arguing with her husband, 30-year-old K Sanggita took all
four of her children to the railway line at Sungai Gudut, south of Kuala
Lumpur, and waited in the path of an express train.

Her eldest daughter managed to escape, and her son survived with serious
injuries.

Sadly, suicides among Malaysia's Tamil minority are reported all too
regularly in the local media.

The Tamil community is the poorest of the three main ethnic groups here,
and
many Tamils face severe hardship.

But G Palanivel, deputy leader of the Tamil-dominated political party, the
Malaysian Indian Congress, thinks movies are partly to blame.

He wants the country's censorship board to cut suicide scenes from Indian
films, and he has called on directors from the sub-continent to be more
responsible.

Suicides are said to be a common dramatic feature in Indian films,
especially those made for Tamil audiences.

Mr Palanivel is not the first member of his community to make a connection
with the worrying number of Malaysian Tamils who take their own lives.

He has also called on the government to compile statistics to provide a
more
complete picture of the problem.






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