me and yanz went to watch sepet last night. our verdict? hmm… hard to say. i liked it very much, but it was not quite what i had expected. you know la… everyone was hyping about it, even in the LowYat forum. a few male friends even confessed that they cried while watching the movie, along with most of the people in the cinema. now that’s the thing that made yanz dissapointed. she sooo wanted to cry, and she made me promise not to hold back my tears in the name of machoness and egoism. but alas, we waited and waited but no tears trickled, save for tears of laughter. the extremely open ending was dissapointing too. just a bit, though. the good points of this movie greatly overshadows the quirks.

yeah, i guess yasmin ahmad wanted us to formulate our own ending. my take: Orked wanted to hear Jason’s voice so much that she unconsciously made up Jason’s end of the conversation. sort of talking to your imaginary friend lah.

i liked the subtle jokes (subtle in form, but definitely not substance) and the hidden messages (or isi tersirat according to BM textbooks). particularly interesting was the rojak language used by almost all the characters. that portrays us true malaysians. where in the country do people speak like in stupid yusof haslam movies huh?

i hope people like afdlin shauki and yasmin ahmad will eventually spell the death of yusof haslam. see if yusof and his idiotic band of Gerak Khas cohorts can subdue the onslaught of GOOD MALAYSIAN MOVIES! hahahaha! there was a bit of line in Sepet that represented a silent but bif ‘fuck you’ to Yusof Haslam & co.

but then again, i realized that this movie pushes the Indians further down in the country’s racial play. why so? people hail Sepet as the definitive racial harmony medium of our generation, yet the portrayal of Indians is minimal at best. it’s like the people’s perception of racial harmony is when malays and chinese get along with each other well, with no thought given to both races’ relationships with indians. if i were an indian, i’d definitely feel marginalized, man. maybe it’s gonna happen in the future.

p/s: in her blog, yasmin ahmad gave the reason for her open-ended ending.