Word: ekachai
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...viewers to see beyond the city-state's straitlaced stereotypes, and exploiting to the full a more relaxed attitude among Singapore's censors. TIME's LIAM FITZPATRICK spoke to Khoo (whose latest feature, My Magic, has just been accepted into the main competition at Cannes), as well as to Ekachai Uekrongtham (the only other Singaporean director to have shown at Cannes) and one of the city-state's most promising young directors, Brian Gothong...
...perfect freedom, or does it need something to kick against? ERIC KHOO: I think that in order to tell a story and maybe even tell it better, it's sometimes to your advantage if there are going to be restrictions ... You have to think even harder as a storyteller. EKACHAI UEKRONGTHAM: From an artist's point of view it's always good to have no censorship, but in the real world that doesn't happen anywhere. There's some kind of censorship always - if not by the state, then by the society. BRIAN GOTHONG TAN: The suppression in Singapore...
...money begging, but it's wrong," she says. According to Thongdee, a bogus monk can net as much as $2,250 a month. Most fake monks come from villages like this in Chaiyaphum province in the poor northeast, and "poverty is what drives them to do it," says Sanitsuda Ekachai, a religion writer for the Bangkok Post. Some villages knowingly use bogus monks for ceremonies, she says, because, as many real monks gravitate to larger temples in big cities, there is a shortage of genuine holy men. Fake monks do the same, says Sawoey, with gangs of them descending...
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