Thursday, May 24, 2012

Ho Chi Tim posts his review of Tan Pin Pin’s Invisible City on Citizen Historian – through the perspective of a history student.


This is the biggest lesson I glean from Invisible City as a history student – the significance of the experience: the experiences of the director, the film’s protagonists, as well as the audience. To that end, the other inspiring bit is the absence of names for the protagonists throughout the duration of the film.* It allowed me to not put a label on them from the beginning – as I have done at the start of this article – but to sit back and listen unassumingly to their stories as fellow human beings who have experienced and are still experiencing things profound and genuine to them.

Read the full review at Citizen Historian.

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