Are Singaporeans too suppressed or repressed to the point that all the emotions boil over and caused them to turn violent?
Like the characters in the story, are we so frustrated and left with no outlet to "release" our pent up emotions that we have to resort to violent means? Are we approaching the repressive standards of the Japanese society that we have become so up-tight and unfriendly. This story makes for an interesting read as it shows you that if you repress an individual for too long, he or she will soon crack. So who is to be blamed? Craziness in an individual or its just society driving everyone nuts?
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I believe that it is the society that is driving everyone nuts. But then again..we are the ones who make up the society.
As much i hate that fact,Samantha is right;we ARE part of the society.
Like it or not,we depend on the rest of the society for things such as finace and material belongings.
We have one significant seperation between us and society though,we analyse our surroundings,unlike the majority whose main motivation is money.
The fact that Singapore dreaming actually takes notice to use the materialistic father to RELATE the character to the audience proves that it is taken into consideration that such a characteristic would create a sense of FAMILARITY in the audience.Surely that tells you that Singapore is already recognised as a MATERIALISTIC society.
The trend has already been set onto the people.It is under the conformity that we are used to that we refuse to accept change whether or not we think its better.
Society is now following only what we have been accustomed to;just going with the flow and accepting the materialism being "brain washed"into us.Society is often unkind to its braver souls.Obviously our current state is the fault of our ---------.
I guess, it is the craziness in an individual that causes all the "release" kind of thing.I will say that an individual takes alot of brain to get used or forget the stress and tension given from the society. Some people would get messed up over stress, but some people tends to take things easily which also says that, each individual can control their own limits because if they want to be unlimited, they can be unlimited.
It'll all depends on what they think life should be, and their personalities. If one believes that life is not about slaving, then someday he/she will crack, but if one has the will to accomplish his/her work well, then he/she will not crack that easily, eg. Workaholics.
GTG dinner so il keep this short and sweet---Workaholics are driven by progress,respectively related to acheivements(good grades and qualifications in other words).Not to mention they are driven by the gaining of material posessions.
The same addiction is observed in Tanjong Rhu.
I have no say in who is to be blamed because I think both the individual and the society ought to be equally blamed. Release opens our eyes (again) to the Singaporean nature which we can see in the story, is addressed by the way the neighbors response to Eileen's futile attempts of trying to stir up a friendly conversation and some of Phillip's ignorant responses.
Singaporeans are too caught up with work, to the extent of using it as an excuse and would rather take the easy way out which is to simplify things. The antagonist, Eileen, shows how most of us are weighed down by the force of the society, I do agree with Andre that plenty of symbolism is used in the Release and I think that this story can be compared to different scenarios in Singapore, for eg: Working, studying, etc.
All of us are in the rat race. No matter how much we want to get of it. We're in it, sadly.
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