Maybe its my latest hobby without me realising it......checking out "Hypes". Like yesterday's morning breakfast at Kluang Station Kopitiam, like keeping up with who's in and out on American Idol, like watching both the opening & closing ceremony of Fiesta Media Idola (yes, i watched that!) and watching Gubra.
I watched Sepet and liked it. So it was only natural to go see Gubra as well. All the raving reviews in blogs and newspapers, how can i not go checkout the hype ;-)
SEPET gave a feel good feeling after watching it. Refreshing to see a movie that transforms racial boundaries, almost teasing. Of course i didnt want Jason to die, but there was more to Sepet than Orked and Jason.
I was ready for the feel good feeling again, but GUBRA cuts deeper than that., I felt uneasy watching the movie, not in a bad way....my eyes were watching, but my brain was trying to figure what to make out of what i was watching. The scene where the bilal pat the dog on the head on his way to recite the Azan Suboh..., how a Malay (muslim) couple was showing affection so openly on a movie screen (i know they are married in the movie, but i wasnt sure i was ready to watch so much kissing and fondling by "my own kind")My brain was still trying to form an opinion about a scene; then something else hit you brains.
This is not a movie review, so i'm not going too deep. You have to watch it for yourself. Suffice to say it was thought provoking, conjuring up all sorts of feelings and thoughts in your head, trying to form or question your opinion about issues, asking you to look at yourself and your perceptions of people, of issues, of yourself. If you havent watched Gubra, be prepared...it aint no popcorn movie.
6 comments:
you can say about conjuring all sorts of feelings again. but i much prefer gubra to sepet.
to nekbat......i like both, but Sepet didnt affect me as much.:-)
i skipped it this time around. when nobody is talking abt it, and somewhere nearer the time they wanna took it away from the cinema - i'll watch it then.
for sure, it'll be an empty cinema probably half full, or half empty depending on how we look at it.
so gubra have to wait.
to bertique....even last weekend it wasnt a full house, so dont wait too long ya! or you can always catch it on vcd.
i watched sepet on dvd ... i decided the best way to actually appreciate Yasmin's movies, one has to be in the comfort of one's home ;-)
BTW, Yasmin refers to me as the "Japanese boy" LOL maybe there's a hope in getting into one of her movies soon ;-p
to alex, ;-)...when they need a "Sepet" substitute?? LOL
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