Two weeks ago, I wrote a piece calling on everyone in Singapore to boycott Martin Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street that is currently showing here as it had several scenes deleted by censors.

A boycott, in my opinion, is the most effective, no-fuss response because everyone should be allowed to watch whatever they want as they are paying for it -- in other words, no one has been forced to.

And a boycott would pressure the distributor to release the uncut version eventually, as it hurts their bottom line, just like what happened with Lee Ang’s Lust, Caution in 2007.

Below is The Straits Times Life! piece written by John Lui explaining why he thinks boycotting movies because of censorship is unconscionable. In essence, he is urging movie-goers to pay to watch censored movies, because, hey, censorship is warranted sometimes.

However, as you will notice, parts of the article have been censored by me.

Therefore, ask yourself this: If you couldn't and wouldn't even read this, why should you bring yourself to watch the cut up version of The Wolf Of Wall Street?

And should you take what I said about Life's piece at face value because now you cannot even see it in its original form and context and be your own judge?

Think about that. This is what censorship does to other people's work.

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