Sept 3, 2007 (Monday) 1108, Sunny Day

Watch Gubra and Cinta last Saturday while I’m alone at home. I would rate both of it a really must-see movie and both of the directors really did put a lot of efforts on filming the movies.

Gubra is about a humorous family relationship, love and forgiveness, extraordinary friendship and hurting the one that you loved most. It’s actually the predecessor of Sepet and it carries some links to the story – the memories of Orked and Jason. And that’s where Alan & Orked’s friendship flourish.

I always wanted to watch Yasmin’s production (from Sepet, Gubra to Mukhsin) so long but it’s very hard to find a companion to the cinema for a Malay movie… Well, I am not a die-hard fan of Malay movie but I’ve been watching a lot of Malay movies when I was small – thanks to the mixed culture while I’m in school. There isn’t much success of Malay movie on international screen back to few years ago as it isn’t easy to come out with a quality movie unless we put away all those narrow-minded traditional beliefs and “adat”, just like what Yasmin have done. I’m not saying that she isn’t a traditional Malay woman but the way she “tell her story” through filming is indeed a breakout to conventional Malay culture. Her story inspired me of a lot of things that I’ve been doing and things that I’ve never have the courage to do.


~Gubra - to describe a feeling of anxiety~


Cinta – like the name of the movie goes, it’s all about love and relationship. However I found out that there are much more than only love in this movie; it comprises of relationship between a father and a daughter, trust between husband and wife, lifetime companion, a protective sister who is willing to sacrifice her own life to save her own and only one brother and the courage to love and to be loved. Ten different people, five different touching stories happened in one small city…. After I’ve watch the movie I got a thought in my mind; look around us, there’s a lot of people around us – walking past us, standing next to us, eating, talking to the phone, laughing among friends and each of them has their own story to tell, whether it’s sweet, sour or bitter. No matter how bad our life is, we should be grateful and appreciative on what we have now coz we’re living now not to the past and not to the future.

I still remember there’s one statement made by Rubiah, “Sometimes our loved one is the one who hurt us the most…” What a meaningful statement!!!


~Cinta - Sebuah Kisah Tentang Kasih~