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3 Hari Untuk Selamanya (2007)
Plagiarism?
I saw this movie and it's great and all. Making a trip that causes the characters to break tradition, culture, and other rules, etc., etc. But here's the thing. As I watched it and gathered all the details, one movie popped into my head. Y Tu Mama Tambien that won international raves not so long ago with Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna starring and directed by the great Alfonso Cuaron. Two men making a trip from Guadalajara to Oaxaca with a slightly older and more experienced lady. All the incidents during this trip caused them to break so many moral and ethic codes that are held by religious Mexicans. Very, very deep. This movie does the same. Good performance by both but I'm kind of bummed by this movie because it seems that this movie is a result of plagiarism from an original, indie, Mexican movie. I think Indonesian entertainment should do better and be more creative and ORIGINAL instead of just being copycats. We have the talent, why not try to think harder and make something of our own?
The Unit (2006)
Awful Preparation and Fatal Inaccuracy
I don't know of what the producers were thinking, perhaps saving a lot of money without making a great preparation. Oh, wait there's something called internet, so what I'm complaining about shouldn't happen. At least not this bad. First of all, people can really see that the set is somewhere in a built-in studio. Medan that they show is nothing at all like Medan. I grew up in this capital of North Sumatera. The people who are mostly rebel have copper-tan skin, not yellow skin. Asian people are only small representation of the Indonesian people. The "KEDAI" is not so sophisticated that they know what "espresso" is. Even the metropolitan people rarely use it. Also the accent for the Bahasa is horrible. In other languages, the blunder was never this fatal about accents. It seems like the accent coach used is Malay. Malay and Indonesian have the same root, but the two languages sound completely different. So it is very inappropriate to use Malay accent when the story is about native Indonesian people rebelling. When there are cars involved, the plate number started with "F". Well, sorry, that's in Java. Medan is "BK". And, we drive on the right not on the left. I have no problem with the story line. It's just like any other military series. It's very typical, nothing special about it. This episode about Indonesia could've made it special, but the blunder was huge. Thus it won't work. Besides, does the high military people always have to have twang accent?! The horrible background info on setting bugs me the most, though, as a native of the city.