In a sudden turn of event i found myself accepting an invitation from a friend next door
a decision that soon made me very regretful. Oh god, I hope this won't take too long.
Perahu Kertas, a book by Dee, a famous novelist in Indonesia, just like a lot of other famous books by famous writers, ended up on the screen. I've never read the book (seriously, never will), so maybe this comment comes from a fresh pair of eyes
Kugy the protagonist was a young girl who dreamed of becoming a fairy tale writer to make money, majored in literature, had a very perfect boyfriend (or at least that was how they tried to picture him), and lived far from her home in Jakarta. She lived in a rented room in Bandung and had a few close friends. You know, a girl as her best friend and her best friend's lover. Okay, that's too few. And then this best friend's lover had a handsome cousin with very obvious scene that he'd soon become the love interest of Kugy.
Meet Keenan, the pretty boy from Holland. A boy dreamed of becoming an artist as he loved painting so much, but majored in economy because of his father's business. Yeah, another rich boy torn between dream and reality, nothing original. And obviously he had interest in protagonist since the beginning, seeing how quickly they're connected and the very fun atmosphere when they're together. Well, couldn't be more obvious eh Director?
The problem came because of that 'interested' feeling they had. Kugy seemed to like Keenan a lot, and suddenly went sad because her best friend tried to play matchmaker, except it wasn't Kugy x Keenan (of course not you dumb ass, she already got a boyfriend!), but Keenan x a fake Australian girl she knew somewhere before. This part made me smh. How did a girl who had a perfect boyfriend for God knows how long suddenly make go for a pretty boy she barely knew at all just because he made her sketches for her old fairy tales? Doooon't tell me it was because they shared the same dream, or they clicked well, or even worse, love at first sight. I don't buy those bs. Funny how her boyfriend never got enough screen time for us to know who he really was.
Moving on, Keenan later knew Kugy had a boyfriend and decided to just go on with the fake Aussie girl, which made Kugy sad and after a really awkward encounter with an old friend, she decided to help that so called friend with her tasks. You know the drill, keep being busy, you'll forget everything eventually, including that pretty boy from Holland. And she got too busy that she forgot to keep in touch with her few close friends (Pura-pura Ninja, yeah it's a tacky name). Keenan got absorbed in his artistic world too, because apparently the fake Aussie girl was a curator for a family owned gallery. With that title, she put in Keenan's paintings, making him very thankful at first and very regretful later.
After an exhibition, Keenan was informed that his paintings have been sold out. Big headed. Decided that he was too cool for college. Told his family he had already quit college. Father got angry. Disowned. Got out from the house. Went to Kugy's best friend's birthday party located in the fake Aussie's yard. Stereotype mode - all Caucasians like to party, so they must like trance music and alcohol, right? Fake Aussie girl got drunk. Keenan found out she bought the paintings for something. Maybe sex? doubting it was affection that she's looking for. We're still in the stereotype mode anyway. Then he ran to live with his mother's friend, in Bali. Spiffy.
stereotype mode off, for now.
btw as you can guess, because the best friend's birthday party was in the HQ of fake Aussie girl aka love rival, Kugy decided to bail out, stopped talking to her best friend at all, and moved out from the rented room. Yeah, very mature...
so Kugy then finally did her work as student, you know, studying. After graduating, she did a stint as copy writer in an advertisement company. As you can guess, new love interest popped out! A very hot boss indeed. Maybe it was just me, but weren't you confused why such a hot boss didn't have 3-10 girls in his arms? oh the shoujo manga style in it, i can't even... It wasn't even realistic anymore. Also he looked like 30 something and was preying on our sweet 20 year old protagonist. Go rob that cradle boss!
oh, and that boss bought a painting made by Keenan in Bali. lol at how they tried to make everything intertwined.
"...membuat saya teringat masa kecil saya, ini bagus, saya yakin kamu akan jadi pelukis terkenal..." yeah, a very deep comment boss...#sarcastic
So Keenan was in Bali getting busy with his painting business and messing around with a very creepy girl without any solid background story who liked to be around him and stared from afar (sasaeng alert! maybe she'll hire a taxi or install cctv in his room lol). Kugy was in Jakarta getting busy with an absurd sudden promotion from a helpful hire almost like a janitor to a project leader just because of an idea that nobody had thought about (i'm sure their minds were elsewhere...), messing around with her boss who apparently into weird things like Neptune Radar and crazy little Kugy. Then they made this alternating scenes between the 4 characters, Kugy and her boss (apparently a little bit drunk, you know, he seemed Caucasian, so he must like to party, right?) kissed under the fireworks of New year eve, while Keenan and the creepy girl kissed (and i don't know, maybe have sex, doesn't matter anyway). Those alternating scenes were a bit cool.
Keenan's dad got stroke (predictable, really), mom picked him up from Bali, Keenan continue his father's business while the owner recuperating in home (yeah, let's have the high school graduate lead the company, the ones who actually had the degree and competent enough couldn't do it, you know, because they're not the owner~ very realistic...). Later Keenan met Kugy in her best friend's wedding (yeah they reconciled, later, like, very later i almost forgot they had a cold war). and a little bit monologue. And that's it. End of part 1.
god, they made the movie looked like something Nagita Slavina always did best, a tacky, corny, cheesy FTV, but this one's a longer version. Far far longer... The only good thing about the movie was its scenic background in a lot of settings.
And giiiirl, put your paper boat in the sea! You're blocking the water flow by littering over those awfully narrow and crowded sewage. Plus all of that Neptune bs, i never knew he could live in sewage...
fml, i couldn't get back those 3 hours wasted on this movie. Im so not watching the 2nd part. I should have known. After all, that girl next door liked Twilight so much....
Post a Comment