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| Crossing into a different world & mentality! |
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| Turning can be perpendicularly upwards! |
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| Visitors are often scared stiff on this fragile looking bamboo bridge, but numerous residents can cross it with heavy loads, at one time! |
A Clash of Mentalities?
The making of the film on Bengoh is a story in itself: actually it is a clash of 3 mentalities! First, the film makers carried with them the `West Malaysian' mentality to start the film eg why the voters oppressed by the Bengoh dam still return the BN candidate who supported the dam?
As the film crew gather they encountered a 2nd mentality: the `Sarawakian mentality' where the interventions from the Penisular is seen, by quite a few, with suspicions-mostly on account of the negative perceptions of the political and economic domination of the West Malaysian government -and their allies in the East, over the East Malaysians.
The last mentality is the unspoken one among the natives in Bengoh villages, which try to find their own best survival options ahead of their villages being submerged by the Bengoh dam water! Elections had not figured very much in this search for their best survival options, even though the ruling politicians are worried enough to delay the impoundment of the dam to after the 10th Sarawak state elections!
