Delaqroux Inc Review!!
There were always these situations when me and a bunch of Non-Malay friends (Lucille, specially made for you: "a bunch of Non-Malay friends AND i"...pfft.. grammar nazi...) will go to block 4's cafe for dinner, order our food and while sitting down, waiting or eating, there will be a Malay movie shown on the TV. At that very moment, you can observe how alot other Malay occupants were glued to the TV screen while Adnin, will try to pretend that he know nothing of the show on TV and act as if he's a Japanese and does not understand Malay. Yes, ppl, malay movies are a DISGRACE!! I admit, there are some nice ones with message inside. I am highly entertained by Adflin Shauki's "BULI" and was moved by "Cinta Si Penggali Kubur" & "Cinta Isteri Penggali Kubur" (The other movie was the sequel of the first movie. The sequel being the best.. the ending with the grave digger living in his own world with his imaginary happy family was super sad.. I LOVE IT!! XD) But in any case, try put all the crappy show on one side of a weight and the nice on the other; how far tilted on the crappy side will the weight answers? I mean seriously, the award winning "Jangan Pandang Belakang" was a piece of sh!t of a horrorshow, and i'm sick of all sitcoms squeezing the last bits of popularity within Saiful Apek. The scripts are cheesy, the actors act like 8th graders, the storyline are repetitive and the awards should NOT be given to anyone at all. Rosyam (emo)Noor, i effing hate you, your role and your movies!! DX I do hate Indonesian shows which are pure exaggaration but heck, at least they made effort to exaggarate. Malay shows are the lamest!!
Huff.. huf.. But then again, today, i saw this one malay show that nearly make it to my "Malay movie worth mentioning list".. Wait... what's the title again?
Umm.. i'll get to that later. But in any case, the show's script and acting are still... well... bad. But the director made an effort with the message encrypted within the storyline. The story focuses on this family living in KL. The family was a loving one and they lived happily consisting of a loving mom, a dad that balances his work and his responsibility with his family, and a daughter, Belinda, who's doing fine pursuing her dream career of being a TV celebrity with the endless support of her parents. Oh yeah, there were even a few scenes of the daughter with her boyfriend, a loving and caring guy who was already like a member of the family as well. So where's the conflict? Well, the family has a bad side to it. The family, though muslim in name, is strayed from the religion's path. The dad's a drunkard, the daughter kinda slutty and the mom.. well.. not much was portrayed by the mom. So still sounding typical? Yep, i thought so too. But then, the family adopted an extra member of the family who was the father's, step-sister's son and he is a religious guy who never fails in his devotion for God.
At this point, a typical malay drama will go like; this religious guy will reveal the bad side of the family and though being discriminated at first, manages to change the family from the inside, and finally everyone lives happily ever after. Well, i thought of that too at first but no, there's a twist. The problem with the religious adopted son was that he's a douche. Of course he's pious and he's staying temporarily at a house of a not-so-pious family, but he looks down at the family as being "future occupants of hell". He turns his face away, he acted like an asshole and he do nothing but talk of his accusation regarding all the sins done in the house (though he seen none of them). What's more, he's not punctual, unfriendly, selfish, ungrateful, never keeps a promise and procastinate everything at work (there's a part where he was caught sleeping at work and his reason was that he woke up at night for prayers and the employer was reluctant to be mad at him coz of this reason). Oh yeah, in addition to that he smokes after every prayers, spits in public and being extremely judgemental of people around him (hmmmm.. sounds oh-so familiar dont you think). But, he's not all that bad, he never misses a prayer, he's religiously intellectual and he's a good religious debater.
So here we have now, a loving non-pious family and a pious douchebag..
The story proceeds revealing more and more darkside of both sides. The dad was revealed to be such a heavy drunkard, bringing a drunk friend back home who nearly raped his wife while he was sleeping. The daughter was being over obsessed with being popular that she is actually mixing around with the wrong people and the mom, while neutral, is getting the hot feet of being labeled as "future occupants of hell" that she nearly turned her back against her own family just so that she could go to heaven (so in other words, her being way too loving for her own good, started getting influenced by the religious guy's ways.. there's a saying by that douche that those who are 'selected' to be in heaven must despise the people who are not and the mom nearly fell for it). And on a strange twist of fate, the daughter who had to take her scoop of kampung life had to go to the religious guy's village and thus meeting the pious guy's pious family and soon we were revealed with the darkside of the pious guy as well. It turned out that the pious guy's dad is a religious extremist (despise wrong-doers, believes that women are to be looked down as merely servants for the husbands, and hates everything that moves in his so-called unreligious paths). So there, you go.
The interesting aspect of the show is how the loving family was portrayed as the 'villains' at first as they discriminated the pious guy. Regardless, when the pious douchebag's actual characteristic came gradually clearer and clearer into the picture, we will see the pious guy as being just as villainous himself. Finally, at the point where the daughter was mistreated by the pious guy's extremist father, we will feel sorry for our first 'villain' and the part that the pious guy actually sides with the daughter when she was arguing with the dad, we will see the 'villain' as being the lifesaver this time around. So throughout the entire movie, the audience will kept in a state where the good and the bad arent foretold but its up for the audience to interpret themselves.
In normal day situations, society are often bound with the foundation that to be pious is to be the good side. But in how i experience it myself, you dont have to be religious to be a good person as long as you love and make others happy. So where do light side actually resides in this modern world? Well, in my own personal opinion, i still agree with my believe that "religions exist to unite human beings, but human beings' beliefs seperates one another". Religion can no longer be a measuring value to determine how good or bad the person is. Instead, its how the individual lives her/his life and what he believes in living that determines everything. I may have no right to actually say this but i have the right to state my personal stand in my life: i may not be religious nor pious, and what i do may not be parallel with His ways entirely. But everything i do is still in His and His messengers' purpose, solely in wishing for the the shattering world to be whole again.
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