The Pursuit of Dream

“The Pursuit of Dream” is a title of new Nia Dinata’s documentary film, tells about the struggle of five talented and smart students yet coming from poor families, to compete with other thousand students winning the scholarship. The film takes place in Malang East Java, centralized to five junior high students, namely Tika, Cahya, Aang, Rahmatillah and Nuning. The latest is just same with mine ^_^ hardly can't wait to see it. It’s said that the film will be screened in cultural centre and universities.

Similar documentary has been released on October 8, 2010 in US titled “Waiting for Superman” by filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth). The film follows the live of five ordinary pupils in different cities which are LA, Harlem, The Bronx, Washington DC and Redwood City. This film reveals the failure of US education system, giving statistic and correlation drop out level with high crime rates. Those who responsible for this mess, based on Guggenheim, are the teacher onion and bureaucracy. It seems that education problems not merely happened in developing country like Indonesia. Even USA, the super power country, suffers the same condition.

Education is everyone’s right and everyone’s home work to make it true.

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She is back....

It’s been a long time she was “hiding” and last week she came up brilliantly with her new monolog titled “Surti and Three Sawunggaling”. I am talking about Ine Febriyanti, one of Indonesian young actress. She played controversially in Beth (2000) and since then actives in theatre.

Last week she performed Javanese widow in “Surti and Three Sawunggaling” monolog, took place in Salihara. Sawunggaling is a kind of myth bird that believed to be mirror bird, reflecting other attitude. That monolog brought out widow’s sorrow after her husband executed by Holland troop. She spent her time doing ‘batik’ three sawunggaling, that given name Anjani, Baira and Cawir. At night, they were believed could release from fabric, flying among the darkness. They told what they had seen, how the troop killed her husband friend and that her husband had an affair with a younger woman.

That monolog was quite hard coz she had to bring many characters which are Surti, Anjani, Baira, Cawir, her husband and her husband mistress. Surti, the main role, was presented somehow moderately not to much Javanese, but it was Javanese. When came into sawunggaling characters, she nicely pretended to be bird in gentle, beautiful yet decisive motions. The white plain stage turned into red when Anjani on stage, blue when Baira and purple when Cawir on. The sound was just enough to support the monolog, and yet Ine was singing gending. Overall, congratulation for Ine come back and big appreciation for the director and script writer as well.

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