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I can barely stomach the sight of this cringeworthy—it keeps me squirming ew, while Americans, ofc they’re squirting

“More and more, baby,” they said

totally contrast with Banyuwangi’s beautiful scenery, merely wasting the backdrop of places 😥

is the primitive in the room with us

bet the filmmaker didn’t think we’d watch their flick on gadget easily nowadays, huh?

HADEEEH

mana janjimu bikin film sebagus ini, Joko?

ok hear me out, I’m so tired of watching this

"I love you to the moon and back"—literally impossible to handle

just call Sam’s dad tho

if I were the perp, I’d like to drop brain rot memes

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Friday May 2, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 1, 2025.

This review may contain spoilers.

Begitulah rasisme. Membawa kegelapan pada setiap insan. Mendorong nafsu bejat untuk membenci. Mentang-mentang dianggap sebagai bumiputra yang oleh karena itu bisa bersikap superior, bebas menghardik kelompok etnik lainnya. 

Premis filmnya sederhana, seorang pria Tionghoa diminta kakaknya untuk menemukan keponakannya. Kebetulan ia merupakan guru sehingga dapat bertukar sekolah untuk mencari keponakannya. Dan, kebetulan lagi, terjadi kebencian, rasisme, dan kerusuhan di mana-mana ketika menakhodai misinya.

Tema yang diangkat barang tentu amat sensitif dalam masyarakat kita. Tidak ada yang menjamin diskriminasi lenyap pada masa yang lebih modern dan progresif. Itulah mengapa anti-rasisme utopis. Amat sulit menciptakan manusia toleran dalam tatanan komunitas yang sempurna dan humanis. Hanya menjadi serigala bagi manusia lainnya. 

Bagai anjing menyalak di ekor gajah. Rasialisme adalah bentuk kelemahan. Karena itu, film ini amat vokal dalam mengkritik riuhnya isu sosial yang seharusnya tak lazim dalam sistem sosial yang melting pot. Plotnya terasa eksperimental karena intensinya menjadi penggawa isu sosial yang paling sensitif. Jarang ditemukan dalam karya lain sebagai film thriller. 

Kritik terhadap tindakan rasialisme secara eksak merupakan bagian integral amanat film ini. Tentu, sebagai audiens tak dapat menelan secara mentah atas audiovisual yang disajikan. ‪Sayangnya, rasisme hanya digambarkan muncul secara alami. Tak tahu asalnya dari mana masyarakat sipil bisa bertindak begitu. Padahal ‬rasisme senantiasa relevan dengan konteks sejarah dan kondisi politis pemerintah. Kendati terinspirasi dari kisah nyata, sepatutnya film ini mampu menerangkan relevansi di antara variabel-variabel tersebut. Sebab itu, kritik terhadap rasisme tidak tersampaikan dengan baik.

Secara objektif, film ini hanya memberikan gambaran kebencian dalam ruang dan waktu yang sempit. Tak ada waktu untuk melakukan eksplorasi lebih jauh bagi para tokohnya. Begitu pun alurnya, tak ada kebaruan. Hanya tendensius dalam menggambarkan psikopat optimal yang dibumbui selera rasisme dan diskriminatif. Kemudian aku sangsi, si bocah cilik psikopat antah-berantah itu memang benar gangguan jiwa atau murni rasis saja? 

Bukan kosong dalih, karakter pemberontak itu adalah representasi hasil pengajaran bapaknya. Keduanya tak lain liar dan binal. Senang membenci dan mempersekusi orang lain. Itulah resultan kegagalan ayah-ayah mereka. Eksistensi ayah yang nihil kelak mendorong ia merasa terguncang akan kehadiran ayah temannya. Anak salah saya apa? Toh, gimana pun objektif film ini adalah untuk menggambarkan cara kerja rasisme pada kondisi terburuk.

Lalu, sisi subjektifnya gimana? Tak ayal, aku puas dengan segala kebrutalan dan kebiadaban para karakternya. Atas seluruh aksi dan bahasa. Menggencarkan debaran jantung dan membawa hati dalam keadaan paling getir. Beringas. Rasanya dihantam dari pelbagai sisi oleh eskalasi rasialisme, diskriminasi, kekerasan, dan pelecehan. Fisik. Verbal. Apapun itu.

Hal yang paling aku suka adalah teknik kameranya. Tepat untuk mewakili kondisi emosional karakternya. Selain itu, bahasa vulgar yang dituturkan memberikan atmosfer memekik dan mencekik. Berhasil memberikan bayangan betapa runtuhnya sistem pendidikan. Namun, inilah yang aku takutkan, penonton salah persepsi dalam menangkap nilai yang dicanangkan film ini.

Audiens yang pernah menonton Oldboy (2003) akan merasa film ini ordiner. Rasa-rasanya inti cerita yang dibawakan tidak jauh berbeda. Dan tentu, akan lebih ordiner lagi mengenai grafik kebrutalan apabila pernah menonton Battle Royale (2000) dan The Raid (2011). Namun, komparasi itu tidak mengubah fakta bahwa film ini amat menyala. 

Walakhir, tak ada plot twist-plot twist-an apalah itu yang bermakna dalam film ini. Yang penting, pemerintah harus segera bertanggung jawab atas pendidikan formal dan segala akar kebencian. Banyak cara dan pengandaian untuk memecahkan itu. Mengenai akan kah film ini memiliki ending yang menyenangkan atau menyedihkan? Pelik untuk menyimpulkan, maka perlu dikembalikan pada perspektif dan kompas moral penonton dalam merefleksikan nilai film ini. Oh, ya, kata siapa polisi ga berguna? 😁

Kata kunci: Barbeku, pensil, kepung 

film adaptations consistently destroy my vision

Watched on Tuesday December 31, 2024.

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an action what

Mr. Qodrat does what’s his qodrat 👏🏻

go kill those AI shit

*insert meme
dunia ini isinya ngewe doang

: knock knock
: who’s there
: depression
#PAIN #blue #slaughterme

this is a synopsis of ours in 5 years

like, how do I say it

pardon, I don’t get it enough

si tu veux me frapper, frappe-moi

this happened to me while I was doing my thesis, just like stfu peeps, I’m trying to finish it before it finishes me

I would never let this happen to my children

love is beautiful, Nazi isn’t

beauty is pain

how to build a Lego, check out

Watched on Friday December 31, 2021.

FINE

Watched on Tuesday January 1, 2019.

like—most normal Japanese

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GOATED SPAGHETTI EVER

You see, in this world, there’s two kinds of people, my friend. Those with loaded guns. And those who dig.

bro said he knew a spot,
and THE SPOT #nature #scenery #beautiful

I prefer to use Rio de Janeiro

no dialogue no context, just finish the film

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speak in yappanese

exactly identical to the original, somehow the 1997 German version feels greater

one of them must be Lynch

our factual enemies are those who side with us

so what’s the point?

can we play billiards instead of chess

1. High and Low
2. Angst
3. Flow
4. The Piano Teacher
5. La Haine
6. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
7. A Short Film About Killing
8. Stalker
9. Cure
10. Barry Lyndon

...plus 119 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 1917
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The 400 Blows
• 8½
• Amélie
• Angst
• Apocalypse Now
• Barry Lyndon
• Children of Men
• Chinatown

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films watched: 3/8
Average score: 8.3

1. Irreversible
2. Climax
3. Enter the Void

Films watched: 3/9
Average score: 7.3

1. Call Me by Your Name
2. Suspiria
3. Bones and All

Films watched: 3/4
Average score: 8

1. Little Women
2. Lady Bird
3. Barbie

Films watched: 11/11
Average score: 8.27

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Isle of Dogs
6. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
7. The Darjeeling Limited
8. The French Dispatch
9. Asteroid City
10. Rushmore

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Films watched: 5/8
Average score: 6

1. Jojo Rabbit
2. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
3. What We Do in the Shadows
4. Thor: Ragnarok
5. Thor: Love and Thunder

Films watched: 8/43
Average score: 6.87

1. Jurassic Park
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Catch Me If You Can
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
5. West Side Story
6. Jaws
7. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
8. The BFG

Films watched: 7/13
Average score: 8.2

1. The Shining
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Barry Lyndon
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Paths of Glory
6. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
7. Eyes Wide Shut

Films watched: 5/24
Average score: 8.2

1. Rosemary's Baby
2. Chinatown
3. Repulsion
4. The Tenant
5. Carnage

Films watched: 3/4
Average score: 8

1. The Lighthouse
2. The Witch
3. Nosferatu

Films watched: 6/22
Average score: 7.6

1. Before Sunrise
2. Boyhood
3. Before Sunset
4. Before Midnight
5. School of Rock
6. Dazed and Confused

Films watched: 8/12
Average score: 8.25

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. The Hateful Eight
6. Django Unchained
7. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
8. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Films watched: 3/9
Average score: 7.6

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Punch-Drunk Love
3. Licorice Pizza

Films watched: 5/13
Average score: 7.4

1. Oldboy
2. The Handmaiden
3. Lady Vengeance
4. Decision to Leave
5. Stoker

Films watched: 5/27
Average score: 8.4

1. Taxi Driver
2. Shutter Island
3. The Wolf of Wall Street
4. GoodFellas
5. The Irishman

Films watched: 3/3
Average score: 8

1. Get Out
2. Us
3. Nope

Films watched: 3/23
Average score: 8

1. The Thing
2. Halloween
3. In the Mouth of Madness

Films watched: 4/52
Average score: 8.5

1. Persona
2. Wild Strawberries
3. The Seventh Seal
4. Autumn Sonata

Films watched: 5/13
Average score: 8

1. Spirited Away
2. Howl's Moving Castle
3. My Neighbor Totoro
4. Ponyo
5. Kiki's Delivery Service

Films watched: 5/24
Average score: 7.8

1. The Godfather
2. The Godfather Part II
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Bram Stoker's Dracula
5. The Godfather Part III

Films watched: 5/9
Average score: 7.6

1. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2. Shaun of the Dead
3. Hot Fuzz
4. Baby Driver
5. Last Night in Soho

Films watched: 3/3
Average score: 7

1. Hereditary
2. Midsommar
3. Beau Is Afraid

Films watched: 4/55-63
Average score: 8

1. Psycho
2. Vertigo
3. Rear Window
4. The Birds

Films watched: 4/9
Average score: 8

1. Children of Men
2. Y Tu Mamá También
3. Roma
4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Films watched: 3/32
Average score: 9

1. High and Low
2. Seven Samurai
3. Ran

Films watched: 6/12
Average score: 8

1. Incendies
2. Arrival
3. Blade Runner 2049
4. Dune
5. Dune: Part Two
6. Sicario

Films watched: 4/11
Average score: 7.75

• Mulholland Drive
• Blue Velvet
• Inland Empire
• Eraserhead

Films watched: 9/13
Average score: 8

1. Fight Club
2. Se7en
3. Gone Girl
4. Zodiac
5. The Social Network
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7. The Game
8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
9. Panic Room

Films watched: 4/8
Average score: 7.25

1. Requiem for a Dream
2. Black Swan
3. mother!
4. Noah

Films watched: 3/5
Average score: 8.3

1. Whiplash
2. La La Land
3. Babylon

Films watched: 10/12
Average score: 7.9

1. Interstellar
2. Memento
3. Inception
4. The Prestige
5. Dunkirk
6. The Dark Knight
7. Oppenheimer
8. Batman Begins
9. The Dark Knight Rises
10. Tenet

Films watched: 5/10
Average score: 8.2

1. Memories of Murder
2. Parasite
3. The Host
4. Mickey 17
5. Okja

Films watched: 6/20
Average score: 8.3

1. Taste of Cherry
2. Where Is the Friend's House?
3. Close-Up
4. Certified Copy
5. Life, and Nothing More…
6. Through the Olive Trees

Films watched: 5/8
Average score: 8.4

1. The Favourite
2. Poor Things
3. Dogtooth
4. The Lobster
5. The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Films watched: 4/11
Average score: 8.75

1. Chungking Express
2. Fallen Angels
3. In the Mood for Love
4. Happy Together

• 12 Angry Men
• (500) Days of Summer
• An American Werewolf in London
• Angst
• Army of Darkness
• Autumn Sonata
• Before Sunset
• Black Christmas
• The Breadwinner
• The Breakfast Club

...plus 95 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

these films are, at least suspected, d on Israeli-related productions, Zionist artists, anti-Palestinian movement, genocidal , and apartheid act

this list only contains 2024 and above released films, kindly check and balances in case of any correction or addition toward boycotted films

those films which have been logged does not affected retroactively by this list

keep boycotting!

• Anora
• Captain America: Brave New World
• Emilia Pérez
• Heart Eyes
• Scream 7
• Snow White

1. Rosemary's Baby
2. Angst
3. Psycho
4. The Shining
5. I Saw the Devil
6. Cure
7. Alien
8. The Happiness of the Katakuris
9. Hereditary
10. The Silence of the Lambs

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Dead Poets Society
• The Florida Project
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• There Will Be Blood
• The Truman Show

• Hereditary
• Get Out
• The Shining
• Psycho
• The Substance
• mother!
• Possession
• The Lighthouse
• Us
• Climax

...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• American Psycho
• Climax
• Come and See
• Creep
• Dogtooth
• Enter the Void
• Fight Club
• Funny Games
• Hereditary
• Irreversible

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

actually these films have a plot, but they are plotless simultaneously, and they existed—or maybe their plot is non-linear or no dramatic acts or nothing happens or they just lack of conflict? at last, it’s just the vibes to feel nothing, isn’t it

• (500) Days of Summer
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 20th Century Women
• After the Storm
• Amarcord
• American Graffiti
• Annie Hall
• Barfly
• Before Midnight
• Before Sunrise

...plus 120 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Blade Runner 2049
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Ex Machina
• Her
• Inception
• The Invisible Man
• Little Fish
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• The Truman Show

• ...And Justice for All

  pidana

• 12 Angry Men

  pidana

• 12 Angry Men

  pidana

• Amistad
• Anatomy of a Murder

  pidana

• Breaker Morant

  pidana

• Changeling

  pidana

• Chicago

  pidana

• A Civil Action
• Compulsion

  pidana

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 5 Centimeters per Second
• Amélie
• Anomalisa
• The Apartment
• Barton Fink
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Brokeback Mountain
• Burning
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Chungking Express

...plus 63 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Black Swan
• Burning
• Dogtooth
• Funny Games
• Get Out
• A Ghost Story
• I'm Thinking of Ending Things
• Inside Out
• It Follows
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer

...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• 1917
• American Sniper
• Atonement
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
• Come and See
• Dunkirk
• Fury
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Hacksaw Ridge
• Inglourious Basterds

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Bedevilled
• A Bittersweet Life
• Blue Ruin
• Carrie
• The Crow
• Death Proof
• Django Unchained
• Drive
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Gladiator

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

pardon me if there are any mistaken about the film log, kindly comment to correct it

• American Psycho
• Arrival
• Atonement
• Black Swan
• Certified Copy
• Chinatown
• Coco
• Dark City
• The Departed
• The Descent

...plus 53 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.