If Amsterdam has her infamous fish tanks and Bangkok has her
Patpong, I'm sure there must be something fascinating enough for
Singapore's own red light district Geylang to be used as the
backdrop, and its nighttime inhabitants becoming characters
featured in a feature length film. After all, Bugis Street of old
(not the sterile shopping mall it has now become) had been made in
a 1996 Singapore movie entitled Bugis Street. But what came across
as inspired from true stories that originates from within that area
leaves much to be desired. After all, surely we know of some of
these stories if we have friends who have visited the area (*ahem*
if not yourself) and lived to tell of their conquests, or countless
others that you can read of anonymously, courtesy of the Sammyboy
forums, and those are somewhat more honest and to the point that
what Pleasure Factory depicted.
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