q&a with director Sook-Yin Lee, writer Chester Brown, editor Anna Catley and actor Emily Lê

boggles me that a film wanting to be as sex positive as it is can fail to even attempt to critique the sex work industry. women being commodified is a reality but it doesn’t make it any less icky and uncomfortable to see a man buying a woman off a newspaper based on her measurements being played for laughs. for a sex worker saying it…

some interesting things from the post-movie q&a with director Jow Zhi Wei :)

- the tapir (which btw is REAL) (he seems very proud of this so i have to include that) in asian mythology is a creature who eats bad dreams. when this film was in progress there was blurry footage of a black and white animal in sg (which, if a malayan tapir, had not been seen in the country for 30 years prior), possibly fleeing the forest…