ඔබ ඔබේ දෙමව්පියන්ට අකමැතිද? ඔබේ ධනවත් බවෙහි ප්රතිමූර්තිය ඔබ සතු ධනය නොවේ. ඔබ පරිත්යාග කරන ධනයයි.. --------------------------------------------- Singaporeans behind touching short film “Gift” were caught off guard when it became a viral hit earlier this month. Telling the story of how a young man learns a secret about his humble father whom he resented as a child, the film quickly went viral on platforms Viddsee and YouTube after they were posted on 6 March. It has been shared close to 80,000 times on Huffington Post and viewed over three million times on YouTube. Director Daniel Yam, 40, who did the film for local charity The Community Chest said in an email interview, “We didn’t expect that so many viewers would connect to local stories like this. We are grateful that we got the message of giving, charity out to the people.” If you combine the view counts from both YouTube and Viddsee platforms, it should be more than four million, said Yam, who is also the creative director of film production house The Creative Room. The success also surprised Michael Chua, who played the father. The 50-year-old also believes that one of the reasons for it is probably because many people could relate to his character. “I think many people would be able to relate to the character, either as a father themselves or from the times they spent with their father,” Chua said, adding, “The father [in this movie] is a very loving character who is misunderstood badly by his son. This made him a repressed character, but that did not deter him from continuing his charitable cause.” The films producer, Foo Xiu Qi, shared some insights on why the film did as well as it did. “The tagline ‘Do your parents embarrass you?’ definitely attracted many viewers to click on our video. The view counts jumped by the thousands and when it reached the millionth view, it was indeed a surreal feeling,” he said. Many viewers online have praised the film – which took two weeks to do from script-writing to post-production – for being very touching. “Most touching video ever, so inspirational, and I cant stop crying,” said a Meagan Luong. “This is a must watch short film video to demonstrate that understanding is often late. Being rich is not about how much you have, but how much you give,” said a ThanhTu Dao. The importance of giving may actually already be something that many people in Singapore realise. While doing his research for the film, Yam found out that most of the donations in the city-state did not come from the higher-income class, but those in the middle- and lower-income classes. “These people, although they have financial difficulties, they did not forget about people who are even less fortunate than them,” said Yam. youtu.be/RDHbcDJkAc4
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:10:21 +0000
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