Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia! has proven to be a great hit in Singapore. It was the leading movie in the box office the week the movie was released.

In this musical film, it features Sophie (Amanda Seyfried)was brought up single-handedly by her mother, Donna (Meryl Streep). In westernised countries, this is a rising phenomenon today. This is probably attributed by their culture, where the people are more liberal.

Besides that, low context culture has also played a major role in the long separation of Donna and her new husband, Sam( Pierce Brosnan). Previously, this couple broke up when Donna learnt that Sam was engaged. When Sam left, Donna assumed that Sam will not come back for her and was just playing with her feelings. However, Sam had gone back to England to broke off his engagement with his fiancée. When he returned to look for Donna, through someone else's words, he knew Donna was seeing someone else, thus assume that Donna has already given up on their relationship which led to the deep misunderstanding.

If one takes a look at the weekly box office results or the movies currently available in cinemas, rarely will you see a local film on the list. Most movies are overseas films and which are the main sources for the movie industry. The rising of foreign films in Singapore movie industry reflects media globalisation in Singapore, where the market is open to commercial programme providers.

The main purpose of this film, 'Mamma Mia!', was to provide entertainment. In the process of watching this movie, we learnt about the American culture. As mentioned in the cultivation theory, messages from this movie, will not influence us audiences' attitudes directly, instead, it will be cultivated indirectly.

Overall, I feel that Mamma Mia! was a entertaining and comical movie. It's worth the time and money to watch!