December 18, 2002
I Want To Kiss You Once
Nice quote from Sigit's weblog:
Aku Ingin Menciummu Sekali Saja (I Want To Kiss You Once) is an excellent innovative feature film created by the Indonesian renowned director Garin Nugroho. The film features the landscape and culture of Papua (easternmost of Indonesia). "Papuan landscape and culture have not been featured in fiction thoroughly as if it's in the context of news," said Garin. The film tells about the love story between a young sixteen year old Papuan boy Arnold (Oktavianus Rysiat Muabuai) who falls in love with Kasih (Lulu Tobing), a 26 year old Javanese girl who comes to Papua to teach. He suddenly has the intention to kiss her."Papua is a vast terrain, rich in geopolitic aspects, yet hasn't been contained adequately in the context of cinema and television. In this film I try to surface contemporary Papuan issues related to cultural identity and human rights in the course of regional autonomy," added Garin. This film is entirely taken in Papua for twelve days, and use mostly Papuan actors and actresses. Surprisingly, according to Garin, Papuans have excellent acting capabilities (the audition gathered around 60 Papuans).
All in all, this film, planned to have launch in December 28th 2002, is a good example of innovation. It must be watched by every Indonesians who care enough about humanity in this region. One last message from Garin states "The message is that no matter what colour your skin is, we all have red blood. We are all the same... love can cross all borders of race and culture..."
Update 2002/12/19: Talking cross-cultural relationship is a nice thing, honestly. Even I thought a little bit of racism view would never lost in our perspective, but I think we can tolerate it. And I think, talking this subject, in openly view and discuss it, would be help to develop an warm situation, a toleration.
Somewhile, I, maybe you too, have been thinking that a girl in another race or culture (or a man if you're girl) is had their affinity, an untold passion in your deep heart. May be someone think, a Chinese girl have its affinity with their pure skin, if compared their average dark color skin. Also, a European girl (or man) may be has its different passion for every Indonesian, so that is happened much cross-relationship like this. Or, something like a Caucasian man, is prefer to have a wife from Asian than European. It's all nice to have cross-relationship. As it also nice to hear that a generation which comes from cross-marriage in fact (general view) has its nice things to say. End of all, i proved that there'll no civilization if there're no cross-relationship in the world, i assure it. So, is it wrong to say that somewhile I think that, "I want to kiss you once?", while I stand in front of a Persian girl (may be, they're nice beauty)? Of course, I'm not innocent :)
Posted at December 18, 2002 08:02 AM | Movies
