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The Big Durian (2003)

The Big Durian is a Malaysian film in 2003 by Amir Muhammad. It is a film which combines the elements of documentary and a little bit of fiction. Throughout the whole film, there are people from different ethnicity and background were being interviewed regarding the incident in 1987. Some said that this incident was related to the racial issue and political issue in Malaysia. As this is a documentary film, there are no fictional storyline being told. Instead, people were talking about the incident that happened in Chow Kit back in 1987. It starts from a night, there was a soldier named Adam Jaafar ran amok and started shooting around with an M16 in Chow Kit. This had made the Malaysia citizen to feel panic and spread some rumors about the racial riots. There are people who said that it happens to be related to the incident in 1969 and related to politics. In the end, Adam was captured by surrendering himself after General Ghani had successfully persuaded him. As what I real...
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Wes Anderson's film: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Wes Anderson is a director for Isle of Dogs (2018) and Fantastic Mr. Fox . Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) is an early stop-motion animated feature film by him before the Isle of Dogs (2018) . It was released in the year 2009 and it was based on a children’s novel with the same name written by Roald Dahl in 1970. Similar to the Isle of Dogs (2018) , this film had also portrayed the unique filmmaking style directed by Wes Anderson. Mr Fox promised his wife Felicity to stop being a theft and get a new job if they could escape from the cage they trapped while raiding the Berk’s Squab Farm. Yet, Mr Fox was unhappy with his new life without stealing for 12 years and he had returned to his thieving ways. Him and his friend Kylie went to steal some produce and poultry from the three mean farmers Bean, Boggis and Bunce who live near to his new tree house and triggered their anger. The three angry farmers were trying to kill Mr Fox and they camped out near to Mr Fox’s home. Mr Fox, his famil...

Matinya Seorang Patriot (1984)

Matinya Seorang Patriot is a Malaysian film directed by Rahim Razali in 1984. It is a fully Malay film, which it was spoken fully in Malay, involved only Malay actors, and featured the Malay cultures in Malaysia, including the dominant patriarchy system back in 1984. This film had also featured the modernization of Malaysia and how this modernization had affected the Malay societies. After the sudden death of Haji Saaban from Kampung Seri Tualang, who was the chairman of Melati Holdings Sdn. Bhd, Safuan suspected that the death of his father could be related to the Melati Holdings. Therefore, he sent his brother, Saiful to Kuala Lumpur to revenge for his father while earning for his living. However, Saiful fell in love with one of the board of director’s daughter and give up on his mission. Many board of directors from Melati Holdings were killed by Saiful’s brothers and they were going to kill Saiful’s girlfriend next. When Saiful spoke out his mind, Safuan felt that ...

Muti-racial Malaysian film: Talentime (2009)

Talentime is a Malaysian film produced in 2009 It is a drama film directed by Yasmin Ahmad about love and despair. In this film, we can see that there were two sides of the story. One is about the love of Melur and Mahesh, while another one is about the love of Hafiz and his mother. Both stories had shown a downfall that the main characters faced and how they go through their struggles. There is a talentime competition organised by Cikgu Adibah in a school for the students to participate. The students who were interested went through the audition and some of them were elected, including Melur and Hafiz. Since Melur was elected, Mahesh, an Indian boy was in charge for fetching her the rehearsal. In the beginning, Melur was mad with Mahesh as she thought that Mahesh ignore her on purpose because of his uncle’s death. After that, she realized that Mahesh is actually  having a hearing impair. Then, both of them slowly fell in love with each other even though that Mahesh’s moth...

3 Idiots (2009)

3 Idiots , a comedic Hindi film about the beautiful friendship between three students from Indian Engineering College and also the education issue happened in that college was produced in 2009. This film was directed by Rajkumar Hirani based on the book Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat, and it had won many different awards, including the Annual Central European Bollywood Awards in India, the International Indian Film Academy, Awards of the Japanese Academy, Filmfare Awards and many more.  This film starts with Farhan Qureshi and Raju Rastogi looking for their long lost friend Ranchoddas Chanchad, who they call him as “Rancho” after they heard about his location from Chatur. Then, Farhan flashbacked to his student life introducing the stories among three of them. The trio knew each other as they were actually roommates back in their uni-life. The university that they studied, Indian Engineering College was actually a competitive place to study. Unlike most of the stud...

How Psycho (1960) influenced the cinema

Introduction Psycho is a psychological horror film released in 1960. This film is directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and it was written by Joseph Stefano based on a novel with the same name by Robert Albert Bloch. This film had given a lot of influence to the film industries because it is the pioneer of every slasher genre film that we have ever seen.  Synopsis Marion Crane, a real-estate secretary stole $40,000 cash of a client when her boss asked her to deposit it in the bank. She was motivated to do so because she wanted to marry her boyfriend, Sam but they couldn’t afford to do so because of Sam’s debts. While she was on her way with the stolen money to meet Sam in Fairvale, Marion stopped for a night at the Bates Motel. She met the owner of the motel, Norman Bates. As Norman brought Marion to his motel parlor for dinner, he told Marion about his ill mother. After Norman went back to his house behind his motel, Marion got stabbed and died while she was showeri...

Discontinuity-Editing: Run Lola Run (1998)

Introduction Run Lola Run is a German film produced in 1998. It was written and directed by the local film director, Tom Tykwer. This film is about a yung woman helping her boyfriend to get 100000 Deutsche Mark in 20 minutes to save his life. The same story is filmed in three alternative timelines in this film with various aesthetic editings, which then will be further analysed in this blog. Synopsis The story starts with Lola receiving a call from Manni, telling that the 100000 Deutsche Mark that he needed to deliver was being left in the train. Without this money delivered in the next 20 minutes, Manni will be killed. Because of that Lola asked Manni to wait for her as she will meet him in 20 minutes. In the first timeline, Lola was late with empty hand to meet Manni as he was already robbing the supermarket when she arrived. Then, she was shot by a police officer when she and Manni was surrounded by the police. In the second timeline, Lola made it on time with the money she...