Martyrmachiavellian

MartyrMachiavellian is a 59 minute short film produced by the Re:productions crew of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. The film is a critique on the meritocratic ideals in Singapore. The protagonist belongs to a once wealthy family, flanked by a maverick elder brother and a precocious younger sister. When the family descends into poverty, the family ties become very strained. The protagonist is caught in a predicament of living up to his parents' expectations and living in the shadows of his much more capable, but under-achieving siblings. Eventually he conjures up a solution in his head to rescue the family (the martyr), but fate intervenes and proffers a hideous marriage of convenience (hence the machiavellian),...