Tanda Putera is a film that the Malaysian audience did not get at all. All the pains that the director, Shuhaimi Baba took to improve the UMNOputera condition was in vain from all the opposition it got.
Shuhaimi Baba used her creative license to show Malaysia's technological supremacy in the 1960s by giving shots of CCTVs, air-conditioning, smoke detectors, even a plaque that came back in time (Tun Razak was a Time Lord!). It's a film that pushes the envelope in instigating the masses to be patriotic in a feel good way and have a good time by singing the Negaraku together before the screening.
By dumbing down and creating new history through her film, Shuhaimi attempts to make history more digestible, especially to the children who are reading a censored, fabricated version of Malaysian History, so that they could score better in their SPM/STPM.
Moreover, she used the Malaysian taxpayer's monies to make this piece of propaganda and stimulate the Malaysian propaganda film industry. God- willing, with the troubles UMNO and their cronies have from the Opposition, they would need all form of PR campaigns to run in their own public stations which the Oppositions would never have a foothold in.
I award the film number 1, because it's a first-class piece. Kudos to Shuhaimi Baba in making a piece of fiction that the brainless and UMNOputera (oops, I repeat myself) could rally behind, and finally get rid of the multiracialism and pluralism that the country has had by instigating another May 13th. Hopefully this time, we could get a real photo of LKS or LGE peeing on a flag pole, so the producer could retract his apology.
