Confessions (2010): Generasi Stroberi yang Lembek

Film thriller adapasi dari novel besutan Kanae Minato membuatku berefleksi tentang remaja, karena saya sendiri juga mengajar di bangku sekolah menengah ke atas. Bagi yang pernah menonton film ini, ada banyak pandangan yang bisa diulas dan masih relevan hingga saat ini. Semuanya menarik dan berkualitas bagus.

Siapapun yang nyoba jadi guru baik, pasti akan berusaha berpikir positif (dan objektif) jika suatu saat menemui kasus menimpa muridnya. Yaa, setuju, pun mengamini niatan baik itu. Dan itu memang menjadi keharusan, di tengah penyakit stereotip yang masih dilakukan kami, para guru. Satu hal yang juga tak boleh diabaikan. Benang pembatas hubungan guru-murid pun mesti tegas, agar kami tak mudah kena manipulasi. Inilah yang susah, karena di usia remaja, mereka sudah pandai bermain peran (George H. Mead).

Donnie Darko (2001): Tears of Fear

“And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad,
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had.”
--Gary Jules.


Those words are the saddest part of the Donnie Darko in the last scene where he died, as the song of Mad World played along. The best dreams, I believe, if I could have a chance to sense my dying in the future. Not really in the future, maybe soon enough I do not know, but for sure I am not a fan of suicidal. Certainly, Richard Kelly had brilliant writing that could drove an absurd, surreal, or maybe even insane story (as normal people would say) into something philosophical, deep, and of course, questioning the conformity of a society.

Just Call Her as Nymphomaniac (Volume I)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphomaniac_%28film%29

Hi everyone, I hope you guys are well. Today I want to tell you about a film that makes me freaked out. Oh no, it’s not horror, thriller, or psychopath. It was a film about sexuality, but the way how the story goes on was quite unique and elegant. I don’t mean to say that all of the films about sexuality are always subordinate. But a lot of sexuality films are full of drama. You know what I mean, right? And in this note, I will tell you how the film shows us about another definition of sexuality in cinema.

Before I start to talk about the story, I have to tell you that the film might make you disturbed. Why? Because the director makes the sex scene so real. Yup, and there is a lot of it. And maybe some of you will be considering it as a semi porn film. It’s up to you guys, for me it might seem like that, but at least I don’t judge it with the lust paradigm.

The Unique of After the Dark (a.k.a The Philosophers)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Dark

Hi guys, how’s your day? I hope everything is okay. Yup, now I want to talk about film named After the Dark or as known as (a.k.a) The Philosophers). I believe that one of you knew about the film. This movie is a science fiction psychological thriller, written and directed by John Huddles. Despite the story (for me) is not really interesting, but there are some good points to watch it. And yes, you are right! The biggest reason why I review this movie is because of the plot. It captured Indonesia’s landscape!