Hi, back to a short movie review. I watched this movie on my flight about a week ago. I will not gonna spill lot of facts on it, though... Due to the broken monitor on my seat, I barely hear the dialog, but there was a subtitle on the screen. So today, I'll try to summarized the messages hidden on this movie (under my point of view, obviously). The movie succeeded to describe related scene to our life in general... I can't complained much, but I really like the director's (B.W. Purba Negara) story-line. I found this movie is a bit heart breaking for the people who watch. For the first time, I thought this movie was a little bit like easy-to-watch, truthfully... it is not... hehe uniquely the movie chose to use Javanese language for all the scripts.
Ziarah means to visit someone who passed away before us... the main character was a young man who currently going to wed his girlfriend... This man has a grandmother (his parents already passed away long time ago). In early time of the movie, it begun with a portrait scene of main character with his girlfriend talking about the design of their future home (which is very romantic, in a way), and continued to the story about the grandma walking alone went for her solo trip to search the grave of her beloved husband. The main character wants to ask for grandma's permission for the wedding, that's why the man was trying as well to find his grandma who often went away. Long story short, the man found his grandma sitting beside the lake (which was told that it was a graveyard by someone she met on her journey). I feel desperate when, the grandma said "everyone keeps telling there and there, I don't know who I should believed anymore." Which gave me goosebumps until now....
The end of the movie finally the grandma found his beloved husband graveyard alongside with a unknown woman grave who tragically was his latest spouse. During the journey grandma meeting lot of people bad and good, same as in our life... life is a journey. I think a phrase like "you reaps what you sow" is not happening in terms of love, since love I guess a very sensitive and un-logical. I kept remembers the terms of: "you can falling in and out of love with anyone." Love as the 'rights' in social environment. But we could not prevent someone to not falling out from love, as it also their rights on doing that. Grandma on this movie have a very big-big heart. I can't stand my tears when she started to clean her husband's graves, what a role-model. My friend, Evy was told me, terms of love... if you still wanting any returned from him then it is not a love. Love is sincere. That's what's love means.
No wonder this movie wins three awards and had a big rating (8,2/10 IMDb). Very serious and relate to the life of the audience. I recommend to watch it, if you like a ballad, historical, and quiet mysterious movie. Thank you for reading...
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| The moment when the grandma swept away his husband's grave |
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