Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Hantu Kak Limah Balik Rumah

Hantu Kak Limah Balik Rumah is a movie that directed and written by Mamat Kalid in year 2010. The synopsis of Hantu Kak Limah Balik Rumah is about a man named Hussien has long worked in Singapore and he finally took a decision to return back to his hometown - Kampung Pisang. Upon return to his home, he found out that his neighbor, Kak Limah has strange behavior. She has a messy hair and do not answer to Hussien's question. In the night, Hussien suffered a frightening incident when he wants to sleep. Kak Limah was laying besides him. Hussien shouts and rushes to Pak Munawar's shop and told to the villages that Kak Limah already become a ghost.









The topic of the movie review about Hantu Kak Limah Balik Rumah that we going to do this week is to conduct a genre analysis of this film and to discuss the development of commercial film in Malaysia. Below comes along the movie review that had done by me and my partner.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTvd976lPwA

Wednesday, 23 March 2016

15 Malaysia Project


15Malaysia is a short film project. It consists of 15 short films made by 15 Malaysian filmmakers. These films not only deal with socio-political issues in Malaysia, they also feature some if the best-known faces in the country, including actors, musicians and top political leaders.

 Short films of 15Malaysia:

       Title                          Director                 Release Date
01. PROTON SAGA               Ho Yuhang                  17 Aug 2009
02. CHOCOLATE                  Yasmin Ahmad            19 Aug 2009
03. THE TREE                      Amir Muhammad         21 Aug 2009
04. HOUSE                         Linus Chung                 24 Aug 2009
05. HALAL                         Liew Seng Tat              26 Aug 2009
06. THE SON                      Desmond Ng                28 Aug 2009
07. LUMPUR                      Kamal Sabran              31 Aug 2009
08. ONE FUTURE                 Tan Chui Mui                02 Sep 2009
09. SLOVAK SLING               Woo Ming Jin              04 Sep 2009
10. GERHANA                    James Lee                   07 Sep 2009
11. METER                         Benji & Bahir                09 Sep 2009
12. DUIT KECIL                    Johan John                 11 Sep 2009
13. HEALTHY PARANOIA       Khairil Bahar               14 Sep 2009
14. LOLLIPOP                      Nam Ron                    15 Sep 2009
15. ROJAK!                         Suleiman Brothers        16 Sep 2009


Me and my partner will select 3 short films in 15Malaysia Project to do a short film review. The topic that we going to talk about in this week are (1) how does the film reflect current social reality in today's Malaysian society? (2) what are the issues the filmmakers trying to highlight to the audience? (3) how do the filmmakers differ from the previous generation of filmmakers? 



DUIT KECIL

The first short film that selected in 15 Malaysia Project is "Duit Kecil' which is directed by Johan John. The synopsis of this short film is about a man went to a brothel to look for a prostitute. He find himself without small change in the cheap brothel. Many arguments ensue and problems faced by the Malaysian common man are discussed humorously.




LOLLIPOP

The second short film that selected in 15 Malaysia Project is "Lollipop' which is directed by Nam Ron. The synopsis of this short film is about a haunting portrayal of a pedophile preparing to hunt, interspersed with metaphors on the state of Malaysian politics. 



Meter

The last short film that selected in 15 Malaysia Project is "Meter' which is directed by Lim Benji. The synopsis of this short film is about the controversial head of UMNO Youth plays a taxi driver who is asked his views on some current Malaysian talking points. He ends up offering a keris to a Chinese boy as a gift.



After the intro for the selected short films in 15 Malaysia, lets talk about today's topic. Here's the video for our review.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yil4bM7xHHQ

Wednesday, 16 March 2016

3 Abdul


 3 Abdul is a 1964 Malaysian comedy film which is directed and written by P.Ramlee. This movie is about three sons of a wealthy businessman named Abdul Wahad, Abdul Wahid, and Abdul Wahud caught in a web of trickery set by Shadiq Segaraga who is a friemd of their father. Abdul Wahad and Abdul Wahid are selfish and money-minded person. After their father has a heart attack, they start plotting out how much wealth they are set to gain when their father passed away. Unlike Abdul Wahud who care about his faither.. He tries to get his father to go to the hospital to treat his illness. Although his father strongly against hospital because he do not want his father death.



 This is Sadiq Segaraga and his daughters, Hamidah, Rafidah, Ghasidah.



This is 3 brothers fight when their father illness getting worst.



Following with the video is about the review of 3 Abdul.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX_9HXJIS4s

Wednesday, 9 March 2016

Perempuan, Isteri dan ...



Perempuan, isteri dan ... is a movie that directed and written by U-Wei Haji Saari in year 1993. The synopsis of this movie is about a lady, named Zaleha is about to get married to Amir but elopes to southern Thailand to marry someone else instead. The enraged Amir tracks the couple down, kills the groom and sells Zaleha to a pimp. Six months later, Amir brings her back. She tricks him into marrying her. But the six months Zaleha spent as a prostitute have changed her, and she now wants revenge.



This scene is in the hotel and how Zaleha tricks Amir to marry with her. 

These two scene is about how Zaleha started to revenge to Amir by flirting with other man. 


Here comes with the movie review of Perempuan, isteri dan ... that had done by me and my partner.