Saturday, May 3, 2008

Indonesia's movies: Thats Horrible or not?


When you watch a movie, what things you hope you will get from that movie? Of course some entertainment or some motivation or other good things right? But, I personally don’t see that things in Indonesian movies. In my opinion,a lot of Indonesia movies are not qualified in many aspects, such as: movie’s theme, movie’s story, the actress and so on. Also, some Indonesian movies didn’t give something meaningful for the audience so far. Those things make Indonesian movies image’s become really bad in Indonesia’s citizens, and a lot of them hate Indonesia’s movies because of all of that negative sides. Now, I’m going to tell you Indonesian movies negative sides one by one.


Firstly, movie’s theme. Nowadays, Indonesia’s movie maker choose to produce a lot of horror movies and love movies than to produce something more meaningful and qualified just for some commercialism reasons. These movies just offer a lot of horror that have no morality aspect. It just made the audience shouted hysterically for about an hour or more and then we got nothing from that movie. And, I personally think that it just some way to waste our money. If the movie is good, it should give the audience some feeds back, such as motivation or moral education, or anything else.

Secondly, a lot of Indonesia’s movies are not original from the story aspects. Most of the story is a plagiarism from other movies from other country that already exist. For example: Ungu Violet is a plagiarism from one video clip in Korea, Miracle is a plagiarism from Final Destination from America, Love is Cinta is a plagiarism from Fly Me to Polaris, BBB is a plagiarism from High School Musical and so on. And there are still a lot of these things happen. This facts show that, a lot of Indonesian Movie makers are plagiarist that have no creative ideas to make some new, qualified story.


Thirdly, the actors. Most of the producers or the directors, likely to choose some actors or actress that have a handsome or beautiful face without good acting skill. It makes the audience hard to understand the story or the ambience of the movie. For example, BBB (Bukan Bintang Biasa). This movie offer almost 10 actors and actress that have a really good looking. But, their acting skills are really poor, and it makes me who watched it really hard to understand what is the purpose of this film. This film got a really bad opinion from the society.I personally feel that I’ve got nothing from this movie. It proved that some Indonesian movies just offer some good actors than offer a qualified story.


Those reasons are just a few from a lot of Indonesia’s movies weakness. Although that, there are still some good movies that we’ve had. For example, Naga Bonar jadi 2, Arisan!, AADC, 30 Hari Mencari Cinta, Biola Tak Berdawai,Gie, and Berbagi Suami. Those movies are qualified in many aspects. It gave us some moral education. It made us laugh, but for a good reason. The stars of the movie have really good skill of acting, so the audience could understand the movies perfectly. Those reasons made this movie really successful in Indonesia. Moreover, some of that movie got some awards in the Cannes film festival in Paris. This fact proved that actually, our moviemakers are capable to make a really good film.

So, in order to make really good Indonesian movies, our movie makers have to become more creative, intuitive, and try to not do the same mistakes in the future. I believe that Indonesian movie makers are capable to make a really qualified movies, and make Indonesia’s movie industry grow up and known all over the world. As long there is a will, there is a way.

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