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March 03, 2005
Observations of our locally made movies
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This comment of mine is by no means a comment to incite racial tension, it is merely an obeservation.
Sepet is a much lauded local movie (as in Malaysian movie) about the love between a young Chinese boy, a VCD peddler and a smart young Malay girl. And that is where the racial tension ends. It's more like a love story which doesn't really hype the racial thing. Or so it says.
I find it interesting because so far I have yet to read of a locally made movie of a Malay boy and a Chinese girl. Thus far most are the other way around. I haven't seen Sepet, nor do I wish to because if the differences if race is not the focus but their love story is, I wonder what is the difference of this story and the countless others?
Like I said above I am not inciting any racial hatred. In fact on the surface it doesn't matter anymore as we have interracial marriages. Even the lead actress in this movie looks like a mixed between a Malay and Chinese because she looks very very fair and she looks Chinese. The boy looks like any Malaysian boy. But I would bet that one day if you a girl were to take a Malay boy home, your mom will still be shocked and when you a girl with such good academic results bring home a young boy who sells pirated VCDs for a living to your parents, I think you can basically and safely assume objections will be coming everywhere. I read that this boy in this movie is actually a far better student than the girl but not given the opportunity. Again the controversy stops there. I understand the film maker's intention. Why cause tension? Why not tell a simple story? But must a simple story always be about Malay girl falling for a Chinese boy??
There is one local movie I want to watch and that is about the Indian rubber tappers and their ups and downs. It's in Tamil and this is one "simple" story we Malaysians can tell all over again and again and again. I always thought Children of Heaven should have been our Malaysian story, Homerun should be, I Not Stupid could have been ours. We should have made documantaries about Ching Meng, the Ghost festival, lion dance, silat, the food, everything. We should have a biopic about Sudirman instead of ignoring him due to the circumstances of his death. We should have a biopic to celebrate P Ramlee's genius instead of doing nothing. We should have a movie about the mish mash of cultures without showing such mish mash through love stories. I am bored. Is this all our local writers can come out with? Either idiotic comedies or oridinary love stories?
I will go see Sepet and see why almost every reviewers said it was good. The storytelling must be good. But I am bored. I watched Puteri Gunung Ledang, I was amazed by the costume and the first 10 minutes and thereafter it was either gloomy sad looking heroine, bad editing, horrible acting or simply dragging the entire movie in slow mo. It could have been the it movie but it failed because in the end it was boring. I want to be patriotic, I want to say something nice about our local movies but the last great film made by our own Malaysians were back in the P Ramlee time. That was the golden era of our cinema and since then you can say we're pretty dead because we can't cross beyond what is on our mindset. When will we see a Holland V? If Singapore can do it, WE CAN!
Our TV series is worse. We pretend we are in HK and we are doing HK series. Where are our local flavours? One interesting series I saw for 30 minutes was about a nyonya girl who clearly loves her culture as she walks around wearing her kebaya and speaking excellent Malay. And that is our modern world. You know what? We have Indian singers who speak fluent Hokkien, Malays who understand Cantonese and Chinese who speaks good Tamil. Oh yes, why can't we have that? And as always we have 3rd rate HK actors/actress (except for the veterans who are always 1st rate in HK) playing the lead whilst our actors take a back seat. The good ones left for Singapore, the ones left behind lacks the publicity to make them our local idol. We have HK writers, writing lines meant for HK Chinese because our locals don't speak like that. I read TV1 is making a long running Chinese drama about the feud between two super rich family, a Malay family and a Chinese family. NOW THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING. But no promo so I don't know when is it going to show.
ASTRO is making a big effort in producing local Chinese shows. Yes and the one they made reminded me so much of Kindred Spirit and plots that I have seen a million times over. Can't we be a bit more original? Can't we be bit more braver? Malaysia is one young country who has seen lots of development and a mish mash of cultures and when it comes to making movies, series, we are still so shackled up by our own inhibitions. There are some sectors who still can't differentiate between a real kiss and an acting kinda kiss so the Malay actressess got it big time. And in real life we have those professing to be chaste going around dictating our young people about what they can or can't do when these people dare to ask our young girls walk around to show them their dressing. What is this??
As long as we don't open our minds, as long as we don't dare to tackle the many issues that must be tackle, as long as we don't tell the story that our nation and our old parents are trying to tell, our "storytellers" will never made one great movie.
I am still waiting for a movie about the Japanese occupation. The last we had had again a sub plot of a Chinese girl in love with a Malay rebel or something like that. Throw away all this! Show us the politics, the ugly truth. Our young generations need to know that our grandparents or parents once ate potato leaves to survive the occupation, people raped, people tortured. We have been through such hard times but we have not one representative to tell this story.
However good Sepet may be, however brilliant this small movie may be, I am still hoping for that one movie that moves me, one movie that makes me question my purpose in life, one movie that makes me laugh till I cry. The one movie that always make me cry was Anakku Sazali, when the father had to surrender his only son to the police to right the wrong. Now that is a cinematic storytelling genius.
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the TV1 show bout the malay and chinese family feud. i think it's already showing at 10.30pm (if i'm not wrong)but i don't think it's daily. u can check it out in the local newspaper TV guide. :)