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:: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 ::

A curious incident of the Blog in the Night-time

Seriously, Mediacorp.

Seriously.

I'd like to know how Breakout deserves 14 nominations and especially for "Best Drama", "Best Actress" and "Best Actor". I am enraged and shocked into disbelief that it has garnered so many awards despite the fact it contained several unrealistic portrayals of mental illnesses that were quite frankly so exaggerated I had great difficulty suspending my belief.

I understand last year was a slow year; no epic dramas or heart warming soap-opera-wannabes, but this... this is a travesty.

To be fair, I admit that I do not watch the show religiously enough to be able to critique it as a whole, but the few episodes that I have managed to catch over dinner leave me in stunned horror that this is happening.

It is, to my mind, a terrible show, in particular the scripting and direction of the characters that had to play roles involving mental problems. It showed no concept or understanding of what autism or post-trauma stress disorder entails. Do script-writers in Singapore think they're being on the cutting edge when they deal with issues like that?

URGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Whatever. Your basis for nomination seems to be for acting in a role that requires a disability EVEN WHEN IT'S NOT PARTICULARLY WELL DONE.

The acting is exaggerated and over the top. It's like the actors were screaming "LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME I'M MENTALLY UNWELL!" Elvin Ng's character in particular - Dramawiki describes it as being "an autistic but highly intelligent savant"

*growls*

Intelligent? INTELLIGENT? A highly intelligent savant who constantly repeats simple phrases and refers to himself in third person and everyone else by their full name? Who walks around the house repeating the lead female character's name to himself after she leaves?

Second, any idea how RARE it is to be a savant? Only 10% of the ASD population are savants.

Speaking of statistical unlikelihoods, someone in a coma for more than a year is more likely to die than not. The lead female character was in a persistent vegetative state for 13.

And they meet.

Talk about miraculous serendipity.

Let's also talk about how quickly she recovered after the coma. Not in years, no, not even months, but mere weeks. Wow. Medical science should be all over her. In mere weeks she was strong enough to walk around, smart enough to run away from evil relatives, able to speak, think, pretend, manipulate. No need for therapy! Never mind she's been lying in a hospital bed for years. The quality of physical therapy in Singapore is obviously top-notch. Patients here can spring out of bed instantly after a coma.

"But it's just a show!" you cry, "It's just pretend!" Please. There's a limit to how much you can get an intelligent audience to swallow and satisfaction is derived from watching something realistic. If I wanted to watch fantasy, I would, not some drivel whose storyline requires my disbelief to be bound, gagged and thrown into the trunk of a getaway car tragically plummeting from a bridge.

:: And that's all she wrote 7:07 PM [+] ::
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