Pete Teo

Musician & Filmmaker.

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

If my uncle didn't have bullocks he would be my auntie.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

UNPOPULAR OPINION: THE U.S. WOULD HAVE WON THIS WAR IF NOT FOR IRAN'S ABILITY TO CLOSE THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND BOMB THE GULF

[Sam @SamCKx]

Infantino has lost!

Asia have just weighed in against him.

AFC have 47 votes
UEFA have 55 votes
CONCACAF have 41 votes

The nays have the majority, 143 out of 211 votes.

Now it's time to fire that grifter who tried to steal football from the fans.

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

Films need to be read, not just watched. But to read a film, one must first learn how to read a book. #Nolan's subtext is clear. Yet most miss it. Perhaps too much Tik Tok and not enough books.

#TheOddysey isn't historical fantasy and our Age Of Bronze is indeed collapsing.

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

When literary critics and film geeks in China deconstruct the declining American empire lament central to the Nolan's treatment, it will explode there too. Elon will have a fit.

[Rohan Javet Beg @RohanBeg]

It's made over $600 million and hasn't even opened in China yet???

Elon on suicide watch, bro.

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

3/3

...America's liberal democracy turned out to be a lie, where kindness of strangers is subverted, where power can no longer be anchored to honour, where hubris rules. And thus the fall of western civilisation is the result.

The western political right won't be pleased.

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

1/3 #oddysey

Just saw Nolan's ode to the fall of the liberal west, where moral compass has broken and chaos ensues. From accent to cast to the strange use of the term "dad", Nolan wasn't subtle in his lament. Yet, the clearest metaphor remains the evocation of this image:

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

2/3

...as a juxtaposition to this Hollywood image in Planet Of The Apes, where the collapse of civilisation is symbolised by a half-buried Statue of Liberty.

In Nolan's Oddysey, the gift of the wooden horse is thus repurposed to be a shameful subterfuge, just as the gift of...

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

People whinging about logic and inaccuracies vis-a-vis a film adaptation of an epic tale written by an 800 BC poet about a ficticious character who encountered gods, sirens and cyclops on his travels after a mythical war that took place in a Bronze Age Anatolia.

I despair.

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

5. I'm sorry 2 see u go as we r hospitable by nature. But I don't hold much hope 4 #NS if it continues to be led like this, whether located here or not. Msians hv had 2 dealt w grifters & dishonest cowboys all our lives. Your hero reeked of one.

Good luck.

Come visit soon.

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

I'm glad u like it here & am sorry to see u go. M'sia is a good place.

BUT

1. To say #NS has no intention of subverting the host country's sovereignty go against many of its supporters' explicit & implicit public statements, including the founder's.

/1 of 5

[Lorin Symington ☀️/acc @lorington]

I've been a member at Network School for nearly 2 months, and I would like to do my best to refute the claim that NS is a 'threat to Malaysian sovereignty'.

Most of it comes from people who haven't read the book. It's free, so if you haven't, start here: https://t.co/YqvIEEPlGn 🧵

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

4. To publicly threaten the country with withdrawal of funds is idiotic. More so when the sum is minuscule. It's insulting & reeks of arrogance. Hell, if @balajis can abandon ship & pivot 2 Kzstan so quickly, it only means the USD25M "investment" was a lie 2 begin with.

/4 of 5

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

Homer's Bronze Age world was filled with ppl of the Mediterranean, N. Africa, Near East etc. 12 diff ppls fought alongside Troy, located in Anatolia, Turkey.

Nolan did not film recorded history. Other than Helen, his casting is not an inaccurate representation of Homer's world.

[Paulo Costa @BorrachinhaMMA]

This trend where every movie has to feature people of all races—even historical films set in places where only one race existed—is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in cinema.

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

One does good and try to be as decent a human being as possible because one believes that's the right way to live, not because one would then live forever or be otherwise rewarded.

That's the ultimate definition of "faith".

Believe, my friend. Hugs.

[Az Samad @azsamad]

The world is not fair so there is no real point to being good or nice

Good people die young, mean people seem to live forever, people who do bad things seem to just hide for awhile before reappearing after a few years

It seems like you should just do whatever you feel like

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

You know what?

Msia is imperfect. But she sanctioned apartheid South Africa decades b4 it was fashionable. She also supported Palestinians decades b4 the current global backlash vs Israel.

I cld show u more of our spine but there's no space.

Trust me, #ns is small potatoes.

[Gonçalo Hall @Gonzohall]

This being true, no entrepreneur will ever invest in Malaysia.

It's a huge hit in Malaysia reputation as a business hub.

And the end of Forrest city hopes.

Interesting times.

Let's see what happens.

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

@NatAsasi No worries. just telling as it is. :)

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

Patronising aren't u?

Dude. Just cos you don't hv a spine doesn't mean others don't. I can name u a hundred things this country sadly falls to race politics for. But I can also name a hundred things 4 which we proudly unite. Yes, it's a complex place.

Perhaps 2 complex for u.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

It's interesting how some Chinese Malaysians end up bowing and scraping to the Malaysian Islamists in an effort to try fit in and dissuade them from doing more anti-Chinese pogroms

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

@azsamad U ain't a failure buddy. Don't ever feel like that. Come up. We hang. Nak?

[Pete Teo @PeteTeo]

#WorldCup done & dusted. The best team won. Lots of debates remain - from referees to Trump. But we shld NEVER let them forget how the Iranian team was treated.

That the organisers carted Tom Cruise out to wax lyrical about world brotherhood is nauseating.

Never forget.