To Singapore, with Love Extra Credit

Firstly, I want to give my condolences to the filmmaker Tan Pin Pin for having her work banned. ( I also think the mentioned that she had her work banned once before.) You can tell that she poured her heart and soul into making this, because it takes much dedication and planning to even find the subjects that she is going to interview. Although you don't hear her much in the film, she has put so much care into the questions in order to fully humanize her subjects.  For example, one of the subjects, one of the subjects that stuck out to me was a former doctor who was exiled to London. It must have been blood sweat and tears to become a female doctor, and it meant absolutely nothing to the Singaporean government. And on top of that her husband dies, and her husband dies, and all she's left with is his ashes. And on top of all of that, there's a whole painful history tucked into that short clip, and she doesn't even cry!  Then, I thought about the title. I think what Tan Pin Pin wanted to ultimately demonstrate that what happened to these subjects is a lesson to the current Singapore-that history doesn't have to repeat itself.