Peluncuran : 23 Juni 2005 (Bioskop)
Sutradara : Rako Prijanto
Penulis skenario : Jujur Prananto
Pemain : Dian Sastrowardoyo sebagai Kalin
Rizky Hanggono sebagai Lando
Soundtrack : Menanti Sebuah Jawaban (Padi)


Sebuah film yang enak ditonton menurutku paling tidak punya (1) skenario yang kuat, (2) sutradara yang bagus, (3) pemain yang berkarakter dan (4) soundtrack yang pas.

Film ini secara garis besar punya skenario yang bagus. Artinya, cerita bisa tersampaikan dengan mulus lewat berbagai bahasa (dialog, gambar visual, ekspresi wajah, musik, dll). Ada juga sih bagian-bagian yang masih sedikit terasa janggal, but in general it's good. Sempat terpikir, jalan apa yang dipilih mas Jujur untuk ending cerita... apakah realistis, klasik atau penuh surprise. Ternyata ending yang dipilih tidak keluar dari pakem seperti di AADC?. Suatu akhir yang bisa diterjemahkan sebagai sad atau happy, tergantung dari emosi penonton masing-masing.

Aku baru kali ini menonton karya Rako, dan cukup menarik juga. Sepertinya Rako punya gaya tersendiri dalam pengambilan gambar dan pengalihan adegan. Tapi belum tahu apa ini akan jadi ciri khas dia atau tidak. Di beberapa bagian agak tersendat, tidak selancar AADC?, tapi film ini memang bicara tentang cinta yang lebih dewasa jadi gak heran kalau Rako lebih banyak bermain dengan visualisasi. Ada beberapa sudut pengambilan gambar yang aku suka banget, seperti waktu Lando mendekati Kalin untuk pertama kali dan waktu mereka duduk berdua di halte bis.

Entah kenapa aku merasa Dian tidak bisa lepas 100% dari karakter Cinta, jadi aku gak bisa lihat karakter Kalin sebenarnya seperti apa. Kalau melihat background Kalin yang terpaksa kehilangan kedua orangtuanya karena kecelakaan dan kondisi rumahnya yang sekedarnya, hidupnya pasti penuh perjuangan. Tapi nuansa struggle itu gak keluar 100% dari Dian. Untung sebagian cerita itu bisa tersampaikan lewat Nenek Kalin, walaupun tetap terasa ada yang kurang... Bukan berarti akting Dian gak bagus. Hanya saja, di beberapa bagian, aku bisa lihat jelas karakter Kalin yang beda dengan Cinta, tapi di bagian lain kurang kuat.

Yang menarik, setiap kali Dian dipasangkan dengan pemain baru, akting aktornya ternyata sangat bagus dan malah bisa jauh mengimbangi. Contohnya Nicholas Saputra di AADC? dan sekarang Rizky Hanggono di UV ini. Aku suka ekspresi dingin yang introvert dari Rizky, pas banget. Beda dengan ekspresi dingin dari Nicholas di AADC?. Rizky bisa menginterpretasikan keragu-raguan diri Lando dengan pas. Memang sih masih ada lah kurang-kurangnya, tapi sebagai pemain baru, kualitas aktingnya masih jauh di atas kebanyakan pemain sinetron. Apalagi Rako banyak mengambil adegan close up, yang kalau Rizky gak cukup ekspresif pasti terlihat jelas kekakuannya.

Untuk soundtrack, cukup bagus dan bisa masuk ke jiwa filmnya. Ada banyak lagu-lagu lain yang asik punya di film ini. Kayaknya boleh juga tuh dikoleksi albumnya...

Overall, this movie is recommended to see. I don't want to write the ending here 'cos it'll be a bad spoiler.



*thank u to Mas Jujur for the free ticket to Gala Premier Ungu Violet. Enjoy it v much!*

posted by retno@10:23

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I read an article today in Kompas, about a girl in Pakistan who was mass-raped in front of her 300-neighbours in Pakistan. She was "executed" for her "mistake". At that time, her little brother (13 years old) was standing in the middle of a court. He was accused for having insulted a woman from higher kasta. His sister's only mistake was tearfully asking, pledging for forgiveness from the court for him. Yet, she was forced to pay it by herself.

It was found later on that the boy was actually the victim, having been kidnapped and sexually harrassed by a group of males from the higher kasta. The court was meant as a threat to keep his mouth shut.

She survived and now runs a small school with 270 students.

Then I thought, if it was a man, he would have killed himself directly.
And this came to my mind: Woman is indeed mentally stronger than man.

posted by retno@09:10

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What is to be done, O Moslems? for I do not recognize myself.
I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem.
I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea;
I am not of Nature's mint, nor of the circling' heaven.
I am not of earth, nor of water, nor of air, nor of fire;
I am not of the empyrean, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity.
I am not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saqsin
I am not of the kingdom of 'Iraqian, nor of the country of Khorasan
I am not of the this world, nor of the next, nor of Paradise, nor of Hell
I am not of Adam, nor of Eve, nor of Eden and Rizwan.
My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ;
'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know J One I see, One I call.
He is the first, He is the last, He is the outward, He is the inward;
I know none other except 'Ya Hu' and 'Ya man Hu.'
I am intoxicated with Love's cup, the two worlds have passed out of my ken ;
I have no business save carouse and revelry.
If once in my life I spent a moment without thee,
From that time and from that hour I repent of my life.
If once in this world I win a moment with thee,
I will trample on both worlds, I will dance in triumph for ever.
O Shamsi Tabriz, I am so drunken in this world,
That except of drunkenness and revelry I have no tale to tell.

From Divan-i Shams

.:..Read this for more

posted by retno@16:54

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Sometimes, not so often though lately, I wake up in the morning and find my days fully-booked. That makes me hard to keep up priority. Ideally, of course, I should have just sit back a little while, make notes on this and that, and then professionally and calmly pick up my priorities.

Most of the times, in reality, I got panic and messed up lot of things. Not sure how and when everything is supposed to be done (my time table is not that straight forward), I would end up doing many things in parallel. Meaning, sometimes, I would try to work on a subject, whilst sitting in a meeting for something completely different and pretending that I am completely on it. It's not so difficult you see. I only have to stare blankly at the screen for few minutes, put a "Oh I got It!" or "Oh it's so interesting" look on my face, and then smoothly get back to my laptop, start typing again as though writing appropriate notes, whilst in fact I'm working on another presentation (the last time I did this, my boz actually sat next to me.... tried to cover up my action, but surely he would have noticed that)

Why keeping up priority has become so important in this world? You just need a snap look to realize that many things, from cheap-simple to expensive-complicated tools, are easy to find from street-sellers to luxury shops, all provided to help people controlling their priorities (this should be a big business itself, isn't it?). Time is money, honey, they would say.

Ok, perhaps since I'm not (yet) such kind of person who needs more than one "secretary" to run my schedule, and me being a truely indisciplined-girl, so all that tools just don't work for me. Completely zero success. Example? That Franklin Covey's priority-guidance-agenda still lies there in my office room's shelf, now hidden between big folders which make it difficult to see from my desk (brilliant way to release me from guilty feeling, wasting all the expensive trainings paid by company...). And yes, as you may have guessed, it's still blank.

There was one time though, I allowed myself a bit motivated and thought maybe it's a good idea to get one of those small-and-not-so-expensive PDAs (problem with Covey's agenda, it's so thick and heavy!). But then why should I spend 2/3 of my salary for one tool I've known precisely won't work for me? Obviously not such a great deal.

So, keeping up priority nowadays gives me a big headache. I ultimately need some tips and tricks on "How not to get panic!". Doesn't mean I have never tried to cool down. Oh yes, cannot count how often I told myself "look, you need to sort everything out calmly or you won't get it done as you would like to have!". But as it ain't no surprise, this just gave me harder stint in my stomach, and still I felt obliged to [at least] try to think and do 3 jobs in the same time (which is of course absolutely not that easy, you know; if only there's a way to simply divide our brain into 3 separate parts, have 6 hands etc..etc..etc... though that for sure will make anyone looks like a monster!)

To be honest, I think I'm quite enjoying myself being [a little bit] panic when under pressure, because it pushes me to think in much better and faster way (and sometimes more creative). This is to say, every time my day is a tiny bit relax, half day would pass with me keeping busy with totally unimportant things. So unproductive am I!

(Oh well, have to admit, this can be just a bad habit I've been used to from school time...I was indeed a devoted Do-It-In-One-Night follower, it worked so well that time...argh...).

posted by retno@13:33

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Ternyata menulis itu memang sangat (tidak) mudah.

Menulis apa dulu nih? Ya apa saja. Fiksi, non fiksi, ilmiah atau cuma catatan kecil di diari. Sekedar iseng atau malah serius 100%, tetap saja (tidak) mudah. Jangankan yang serius, bikin artikel untuk blog ini saja kadang butuh waktu lama. Kalau gak kosong ide atau banyak ide tapi tidak bisa spontan menumpahkannya ke tulisan. Kadang suka iri (tapi yang positif sih) sama teman-teman yang mungkin memang sudah punya bakat menulis dari "sananya", rasanya cerita mereka seperti mengalir begitu saja.

Ada pengaruh dari "keringnya" pelajaran Bahasa Indonesia di SD-SMA dulu gak ya? Rasanya jarang banget deh ada tugas membuat karangan yang "hidup" atau mengulas buku-buku cerita klasik. Untung perpustakaan sekolah masih punya koleksi novel-novel angkatan lama (jadi ingat tempat di pojok kiri perpustakaan Smandel yang sudah kebanjiran ituh...).

Di kuliah juga sama. Selama di ITB rasanya gak banyak tuntutan membuat tulisan ilmiah yang baik (baca: sistematis, mudah dicerna orang lain, argumentasi berdasar dan kuat). Belajar menulis ilmiah yang betul baru terasah waktu di Delft. Lagi-lagi terasa, menulis itu susah lho....

Padahal, menulis itu juga ekspresi diri kan. Apa itu bentuknya opini, khayalan, ulasan, atau mungkin sekedar curhat untuk diri sendiri, lebih bagus memang kalau bisa bermanfaat buat orang lain juga.... When people read and appreaciate your words, damn it feels good...

*special buat Ime': keep working on it girl! ntar gue jadi pembeli pertama deh....^_*

posted by retno@10:58

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Looking at the director name (Sidney Pollack), actor (Sean Penn) and actress (Nicole Kidman), to be honest I was clinging on my teeth, hoping to see a great movie, not just an average good one. Turned out I gave too much expectation. It's a good movie indeed, but that's it. I was quite entertained, but couldn't help feeling something loose here and there.

There're still great lines you can take from this movie though.
Here some that I like (well, I don't remember the exact words, but more or less I think) :

Sean: "You are just an interpreter"
Nicole:"Country went to war because they misinterpreted each other"

Nicole: "I loved him. Long time ago. Before our skin color became problem (or politics?). The politics of my skin."

*What a powerful line, that is. "The Politics of my skin". Can't figure out any better words to pronounce the bitterness and tragedy of having different skin colors. How humanity can be manipulated by the Politics of Skin (color), from both sides, black and white (and brown…)*

Nicole: "Say it! Like when you really meant it! When you really believed it!"

*People change. You can't avoid that fact. What you believe now, may someday become what you're fighting against for the rest of your life*

One thing I learn from this movie, being consistent is unbearable when power is given to your hand.


My own rate: 8

posted by retno@15:16

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Beberapa hari yang lalu, seorang teman berkata "semua manusia ditakdirkan punya peran tertentu dalam hidup ini". Waktu itu aku cuma bisa manggut-manggut, karena pikiranku tidak mampu mencerna kalimat itu begitu cepat.

Tiba-tiba hari ini aku jadi teringat lagu Panggung Sandiwara- nya Nike Ardilla (eh atau ini lagunya Ahmad Albar ya? lupa-lupa ingat nih). Kalau diandaikan dunia ini seperti panggung sandiwara, dan kita semua adalah "pemain" dengan karakter masing-masing, dimanakah dan sebagai apakah "peran" kita? Apakah kita kebagian peran protagonis, antagonis, atau "abu-abu"? Seperti apa sih "topeng dunia" kita? Apakah kita akan memakai topeng yang berbeda di panggung yang berbeda?

Pastinya tidak mudah jadi orang yang konsisten, hanya memakai satu topeng dalam setiap kesempatan. Realitanya, kita toh sering harus tersenyum di depan orang lain, walaupun di dalam hati rasa jengkel sudah di ubun-ubun (oh iya, senyum itu juga ibadah ya...). Atau pura-pura galak supaya dianggap berwibawa. Bertopeng alim karena jabatan padahal di baliknya siapa tahu.

Tapi kalau memang itu takdir, apa artinya memang di antara kita ada yang digariskan punya berbagai "peran" dalam hidup, atau itu sebenarnya pilihan yang dihadirkan Allah SWT buat manusia?

posted by retno@15:12

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