searching

Heey back at it again, tonight we're gonna discuss one hell of a movie; yep you guess it. I am not gonna open this post with some quotes from the movie because most dialogue of the movie is actually not 'said' but 'typed'. You know what I mean. And anyway I can't find any quotes from the movie yet because it's still new; but yeah let's just skip that part. 

s p o i l e r  a l e r t .

Searching (2018) opens with a desktop view of Windows XP, which will makes you wonder is this some kind of error or is it just the movie?? But indeed, it's the start of the movie. A happy family; David Kim (John Cho), Pamela Nam Kim (Sara Sohn), and their only daughter, Margot Kim, have a wonderful life as it shows from their folders of videos, photos, events; everything was showed up only on their computer's screen. In this movie, Margot was played by three different actresses as the timeline starts from she was a toddler until she became a teenager. Everything was great until comes the sad part; Pam passed away because of cancer. But it didn't affect any of David and Margot's relationship; they were doing great. Margot and her dad continues their seemingly fine relationship.. until one day, Margot went missing. 

What's great about this movie is that the suspense is real even though David was just clicking and scrolling around through his computer screen. John Cho nailed it as a loving and protective father who will do anything to search for his daughter. His instinct was unreal; it makes us wants to believe too that Margot is still alive out there. We'll search for every possible clue in the screen, as if we're helping him. The whole movie was shot only by the view of computer screen, phones, TVs, and CCTV. Nothing more than that. It's incredible how the director (Aneesh Chaganty) managed to shoot every scene perfectly without being over about it. Every scene makes us wants to just pause the movie and search precisely for every clue possible. 

Now you know what I mean. It's the entire movie in a screen! 

This movie also taught us that our digital prints are SO DAMN EASY to be traced by everyone. Like, you can't hide yourself once you're on the internet. And also this movie is great for parents because this shows just how much some parents don't really know their own kids. David always thought Margot was a nice and friendly kid in school, when in fact she was a shy and quiet one. The biggest emotional breakdown was when David found out that he knows nothing about Margot and her sadness for losing her mom, because David always thought time will heal everything. Searching opens up a lot about communication between parents and their kids, and the sad part is that everything is true; that being a parent is not just raising your kids right, but also knowing them thoroughly as a person. 

9/10.

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what's love, anyway?

When you put your head on my shoulder,

and we looked into each other's eyes,

is that love?

When we laughed together about the good old times,

and we realize we've gone so far,

is that love? 

When you called me,
because I got sad of college,

is that love? 

Or is it love you name it,

when you post a picture with her,

and you got sad because of her,

and she treated you so badly,

that you wanted to give up.

Is that love? For you?

Are you decide to close your eyes forever,

for the love that's close.

For the love that's around;

for the love that's near.

For the love that's me.

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lucky number 9

Hello, my favorite persons in college. 

It's been a year since we met, and you guys are one of my reasons to wake up and go to college every morning. Thank you, anyway. For everything. For the laughs, especially. We do still have a long journey to go, but I know every single one of us will survive and make it in the end. The past two days have been awesome, right? I never knew I could laugh that loud. It makes us feel good. The holiday did make us forget our college things, which stresses us out. It relieves us.

It's the little things about each one of you that shapes our friendship. So don't ever change, okay?

**

"Eh, iyapo? Sumpah?" Ashri, setiap ada yang cerita tentang apapun. Ditambahi dengan embel-embel, "Aku baru tau lhoh, sumpah."

"Aneh banget nggak sih (insert anything here)?" Ropik, setiap habis lihat/melakukan sesuatu. Paling sering habis miniquiz. Karena miniquiz memang aneh-aneh soal-nya. :')

"Hanya Uli yang bisa menanggapi kealayanku." Dyah, yang setiap pagi kerjaannya cubitin pipi sambil gemes. Kalau dipikir-pikir jijik juga, ya.

"Ayo beli molen dong, buat sarapan nih pagi-pagi. Ayolaaah." Asli, molen jualannya Hendra enak banget! Dan tidak ada danusan yang tidak terjual habis kalau Hendra yang menjajakan. Hahaha.

"Ayo dong guys, mumpung masih disini manfaatkan buat jalan-jalan!" Being the dad of the group, Hanin selalu memaksa kami-kami buat melakukan yang harus dilakukan. No sunrise in Dieng without you, Nin. :')

"Uliiiiik! Kamu nggak kangen aku po?" Cahyo, hampir setiap kali ketemu di kampus. Biasa, mental age-nya balita. :')

"Aku laper.." Kania, every 2 hours.

"Lay, tau nggak sih kalo si A tuh ternyata..." Imel, tiap habis dapet gosip dari anak-anak angkatan. "Aku cuman diem aja gitu kan, ngangguk-ngangguk doang dengerin haha!" Besok-besok tetep bagi-bagi ya, Mel.

"AKU PENERAWANG! ASHRI WEREWOLF!" I have to admit Cahyo's very good at playing Werewolf in real life. The real MVP of the day.

"Duh aku bingung.. Gimana sih ini.." I can imagine Kania's face saying this. Happens every time she got confused on making decisions or on college. :))))

"Semalem aku tidur jam 2." Imel, pas kuliah pagi, dengan mata ngantuk. "Nonton drakor, dong!"

"Lik, kamu baca nggak tweet yang tentang..." Ashri, tiap ada thread seru di Twitter; bahkan sampe yang aneh-aneh juga. :))

"Ih ngawur banget sumpah." Basically Dyah, every time.

"Ayo guys, mau makan kemana?" Kenny, setiap habis tutorial dan kita kebingungan mau kemana.

"Nih kunci rumahku, bawa aja." Needless to say, Hanin. Of course it's Hanin.

"Udah to gausah bahas-bahas lagi feedback OSCE!" Ketika keemosian Ropik memuncak. :')))

"Aseeek!" Hendra, ditambah dengan goyangannya yang yahud setiap denger lagu dangdut. Atau bahkan nggak ada lagu juga tetep joget. :)))

Here's to the first year of college. 

I am beyond grateful to have the 9 of you. 

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20.20

Ever think how your life can literally be turned upside down? Friendship, relationship, college.. Everything. Just in a few years. Or months. Or days. Or even, hours. 

This post is dedicated to me, in my new age, 20. Today, only today, yes, today really shows me the very basic thing of life; alteration. And adjusting is a must to survive; no matter how bad you don't want everything to change. I missed my few closest friends, but today I found out that l need to be grateful more; you can always find someone to smile with. The point is not to be mourning for who's gone; but to be smiling for who's around. Today I learned about it, and I'm beyond happy to celebrate the moment. 

Anyway, big thanks to you, my best fella, who's willing to be with me the whole day for my birthday. You know who you are. 

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fantastic mr. fox

"I know what it's like to be different."

"I am not different. Am I?"

"We all are ⎼especially him (Mr. Fox)⎼ but there's something kind of fantastic about that, isn't there?"

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s p o i l e r  a l e r t .

Let's talk about this movie. Just like every other Wes Anderson movies, this movie deserves so many attention. I mean, Wes Anderson! No one could ever please your eyes on a movie rather than him. He's a control freak when it comes to his movies, and yes, that's what makes him a great director. I only watched two of his movies, which are The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and this, Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), but I'm still looking forward to catch up on his other masterpieces. Maybe I'll write about The Grand Budapest Hotel later, but let's focus on this grand stop-motion animated movie first. 

Fantastic Mr. Fox was based on the famous Roald Dahl's book with the same title. You know, you cannot avoid the charm of Roald Dahl's characters; his Charlie and The Chocolate Factory was undoubtedly one of the most successful children's book and movie in the world, as if it has that weird connection to everyone who either watch the movie or read the book (because admit it, as you grow older you'll think Mr. Willy Wonka is actually a very weird and creepy person; but yeah, you still unavoidably likes him). Fantastic Mr. Fox has its own charms, and this movie really needs to be appreciated more. The color tone, the dialogues, the characters; they're all incredible! 

First, I am gonna talk about the color tone on Fantastic Mr. Fox. Just like every Wes Anderson's movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox has its own signature on color, which is slightly orange. 

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Beautiful, right? I know, I know. Wes Anderson never disappoints us.

According to studiobinder.com, an orange tone in a movie was meant to display warmth, sociability, friendly, happiness, exotic, and youth. This brings us to our second talk, about the story of Fantastic Mr. Fox. Mr. Fox (George Clooney) was a happy fox, living with his beautiful wife (Meryl Streep) and son, Ash (Jason Schwartzman). He used to be a naughty fox; one who's stealing birds or chickens to eat. Yet he decided to quit his illegal occupation after Mrs. Fox got pregnant with Ash, and become a writer for local newspaper. But a fox is a fox. One day, he decided to go back stealing chickens and birds (and also apple cider) from farmers; only this time he doesn't know what are the consequences.

The color tone itself matches the story of Fantastic Mr. Fox. It successfully portrays happiness, warmth, friendly, and youth. Especially the warmness, because even though you want to hate Mr. Fox so much for what he had done, you can't. It's the warmness he shows; him, and his friends and families. Everyone supports Mr. Fox even when they lost their houses for what he did, everyone forgives, and everyone loves each other. 

I think that's the biggest picture of this movie. That we should have each other's back to survive; to be a decent living things. 

Who am I to score, but I'll give 4/5.

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two sides of a coin

I promptly think it's beautiful when people allows us to see their other side. Whether it's a dark side or bright side; I still think it's worth. Because, opening up to someone isn't as easy as it seems. Some people are like an open book; they let people see everything that goes through their mind, their life, and their problems. Some not; they hide their tears tight inside their heart, and put up a smiling face to show to the world.

Both are fine. People have their own way to live their life. 

But for some, showing others their true colors is a very big thing to achieve. 

And the biggest worry is,

"What if they leave?"

Isn't that the most fundamental question, after all?

You can ask yourself that question every time you start to know someone. Truth is, we never want anyone to leave. We'll do everything to make them stay; including turning our-self into a better version for them. Some time ago, I stumbled upon this statement on Twitter,

"Do you ever realized that you have many different version of yourself? The 'you' your mom knew may be different than the 'you' your friends knew. And that goes on for every single person you ever know in your life. So, for instance; how do you know which 'you' is the real you?"

Probably, we don't have to worry about showing others our other side.

Because,

do we even know which side is the other?

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operator

"I would like to go back to being your wife, not your science experiment."

"But I enjoy listening to you."

"I don't think you've been hearing me at all."

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s p o i l e r  a l e r t . 

Operator (2016) is a science-comedy (is that even a genre?) movie. The movie opens with a loving young couple, happily married to each other. It's Joe Larsen (Martin Starr) and Emily Klein (Mae Withman). The two has a job on their own, Joe as a programmer and Emily as a call operator in a hotel. Joe and his team is struggling on making a new program called Alexis; which is an operating system who can assist you with whatever you needs, like healthcare, insurance, emergency, etc. Alexis keeps on being denied by their clients because she sounds careless, impolite, harsh, and has no empathy. 

While Joe is desperate of his clients' needs, he called Emily; he basically needs Emily for every time he feels desperate because he has a severe panic attack disorder which can be triggered whenever he's stressed out. They have that secret code; Room 1313, to let Emily know it's Joe who's calling her. At the moment Emily's voice soothes him, Joe immediately knows who's going to voice for Alexis. And that's when the movie begins.

This movie kinda reminds me of Her (2013) and Ex Machina (2014), where one's falling in love with someone's voice or body, but they do realize it wasn't right. It can't be done. Joe falls in love with Emily's voice, while actually he has the real Emily besides him, whom he ignores. He prefers to listen to Emily as an operating system rather than listening to his own  wife. It's ironic, because he'd rather call the operating system 400 times than call his own wife and fix their fragile marriage. And that's what I love about this movie. It shows how fragile our feeling is as a human being. We practically falls in love with someone who's imaginary; fits to our perspective as a perfect criteria. Emily as an operating system do whatever Joe wants her to do; she'll comfort him, soothes him, and being there 24/7, while the real Emily can't do that. The real Emily needs to go to work, having some drama performance, and sleep.

Operator is funny, sweet, and honest. I'll give it 3/5.

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