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Friday, August 05, 2005

Review of a must-watch-movie : BUKAK API


Boooiiiii this is REALLY past tense gile2 babeng punye! This movie was released (not in Malaysia though) in the year 2000! Dan baru MALAM nih mek nengok movie nih. I mean, I've heard about it dulu2. But I thought it was a play, like a theather thingie? Tak pulak tahu it was a movie. I mean, I knew lah dulu tu tapi macam, "Ala, bukannye movie bebetul kot? Must be one of those short2 movies jer tu... tentu sama sekali bohsans!"

BUZZ! Salah banyak - Silap besar!!!

Ehehehe... I happened to TERnampak vcd nih tadi (obviously bukan ori la kan, MATI LA MEK menggalakkan cetak rompaques!) Ptg tadi lepas balik kerej, mek singgah japs jumpe kawan mek. Jumpe pulak kat kedai minum itiew, sebelah kedai itiew got lar this one vcd shop. CIO here CIO there (CIO = check it out), I found it... "BUKAK API". Macam, tetiber, very der kuat sangat feeling semangat mek suruh beli vcd cets romps itiew! So mek pong belik lah. So tadik mek nak tgk la kat PC mek nih - HAPSET! Memang Cet Romps HANJENG! Sebelum2 nih pong, ade gak mek belik vcd cet romps, tapi tak der lah sehazab nih! (Opppss! Did I say sebelum2 nih? Errrr... maksud mek... errr.. HAIYOH! PECAH LOBANG! LOL!!!!) So anyways, hazabnya kenape? Gelap sangat - 80minit movie tu, mek rase, erm... 60% semuanya shot malam (isn't it obvious? Ehehehe). Dah lah cets romps, gelap - apo yang mek nak nampok? Nan ado! Main teka2 jer. Muka2 pelakon2 pon mek nampak tak nampak jer, BUT SUARA wise, BANYAK MEK KENAL! Tgk2 balik muka, pause kejap movie tu, lorrr KAK INA Mak Ayam Miss Ginger katanye!!!! Kak Ina also berlakon katanye! Mek suke! LOL!

SO enuff about me and my pathetic opening. Straight to the movie review. (MAAF, no pixs dalam entry nih sebab mek couldn't find any pics dari movie nih dalam web. Nanti la mek usahakan lepas2 nih, kot2 leh scan memana ke ape ke, ek? Sorry nah!!!)

"Bukak Api" so the bahasa lain bagi "LETS MAIN!" atau "SEX! MARI MELAKUKANNYA" gittiew... The movie nih kalau nak ikutkan, it's about mak nyahs community di Chow Kit/ Lrng Haji Taib (ade yang cakap transvestites la, ade cakap transsexuals la... aahhh! Mek tarkik. Yang mek paham, terms MAK NYAH, PONDAN, BAPOK - dah! Kapish? Senang citer, kan? Hehehe - mrasalah mek mampos lepas nih!). It tells the penonton, the truth behind the nightlife scenes in KL especially yang kat Chow Kit tu (which made the movie initially banned from Malaysia. Cam mana tu? Malaysian made product, banned in Malaysia? MOTIF? Why? Sebab takut ppl will know the truth? How pihak2 berkuasa treated these.... haaa.. nak tahu lelebih? MRASALAH TGK SENDIRIS! Mek tannak sebut2 lebih2! Kang ade pulak nak memantau lagik! Oppsss!!). So anyways, semua anak2 ayam nih (hadek2 baru, lama, semua lah) ade mak ayam - that's where Kak Su @ Kak Ina comes in. YER! Our own Kak Ina MC utk IQP2005 hari itiew tu lar! Hehehe. Dia la mak ayam besar itiew dalam movie nih.

And as the movie goes on, ade lah scene2 main lah (yes u ols! Ade ok! SAYANGNYE pix tak clear. Kalau idak, haiyoh! MRASALAH mek merembes air puks tgk Hero citer nih, Razis namenye?), scene maknyah2 bergadung dengan hadek2 baru nak naik lah (so very der mek pernah nampak also in real life. Mrasalah mek takut sangat! Tercabutnya wig mek gara2 mereke berdua bergads sebelah mek, tak sepasal2 je... hehehe), pasal CHECKING lari lintang pukang lah - haiyoh! Very der REAL ok. Bahasa2 yang digunakan ALSO bahasa2 everyday life maknyah2 semua. Like, mek felt very bukan macam movie. Macam tgk dia orang depan2 mek jer, mek suke mek suke! Dan most of the actresses (akak akak tu semua lah) semuanye majority mek kenal diaorang u ols. Very der mek kenal Kak Ina, Kak Lily Silver (Lili Kueh), Manja (very der pretty!), adik kak Sharmila, si Danisha itiew - haiyoh! Mek suke sangat movie nih. And plus, movie nih kan, setiap scene, MUSTI ade isu2 pasal HIV, cara nak have save sex lah, itiew ini. Sebab tu la movie nih diratekan sebagai educational movie for safesex and HIV infos and stuffs. Very der sampaikan nak pakai kondom on DILDO pon diajarnya ok!! VERY GOOD! Mek suke! Cara penyampaian informasi2 tersebut pulak, bukannya direct. It's like, indirectly dalam certain2 scenes (I think most of the scenes la ade perkara2 berbangkit pasal safesex, condom dan HIV), ade lah unsur tanye bertanya antara satu sama lain, sessi kuarkan ceramah mak mak hayem lah - very real very true. Tapi mek doubt in real life ade dok sembang bab nih. Asik lah semua sembang bab2 jantan... jantan... dan jaaaaaaaantan jer! Ehehehe...

Dan besides mak nyahs, (dan emak2 hayam mereks), citer nih also selitkan isu pelacuran perems betul; ade kelly'ng punye pelac lah, melayu kite nih la, ade yang TERmengandung lah - very tak tertumpu hanya pada golongan ketiga nih jer. Kire the movie revolves around those yang dok ade kat ceruk2 belakang jalan2 gelap kusam kasam Chow Kit dan Lorong Haji Taib tu la. Dan pendidikan seks yang diajar dalam movie nih, bukan sekadar utk kiteorang menusia ketiga, but also to men and women around la kan. Mek have to say, movie nih satu cara nak kasik 'others' sedar how important safe sex is; not just with maknyahs, gays and what not - tapi kalangan pompuan laki also very der ade risikonya.

Tak dapat nak dinafikan, citer nih also ade unsur2 cinta, elimen2 SEDEH, dan yang penting, aksi2 maknyah2 lawak. MEK tabik spring kat akak2 kita tu semua! VERY DER! Natural sangat berlakon (although ade some parts yang macam tak real, tapi being ppl like us, yang keluar tu sepoi2 bahasa, selamber jer... mek suke!) Dan dalam movie nih, ade unsur menunjukkan yang maknyah sebenarnye bukannye anti peremps. Asiklah some perems dinch suka maknyahs - walhal, maknyah2 nih lah orang2 yang boleh dibawak bersembang, berborak bincang, gelak2 binats, semua boleh. Dalam movie nih also ade tunjukkan about friendship, tak kirelah sesama gays ke sesama mak nyahs ke - also ade pasal friendship between a woman and a nyah. Touching mouching sangat. Yang sangat touching tau tak ape? Nih... tahu tak those yang melacur (bukannye kite kire nyahs aje, tu, yang pompuan2 tu semua also), tahu tak some of them melacur semata2 nak kumpul duit nak hantar adik ke university? Mek sangat piliu. Tahu, some might say "Ala - macam lah tak der kerje lain nak buat" tapi KALAU ITU lah satu2 kerej yang dia gherti nak buat, how? Org desperate nak tolong adik pi uni, dan dia tau mengangkang jer utk dapat duit, so, what? Tak ke mulia kakak sanggup bergelar pelacur semata2 nak carik duit nak hantaq adik masuk U? Mek sangat tersentuh bab tu. Pastu bab Danisha (Riena) dapat HIV +ve, pastu watak Murni (the real perems yang jadik pelac itiew) also dapat HIV +ve, then KAK SU also - haiyoh! Mek sangat terharu tgk peponen menangis - mek rase depa nangis bebetul lah.... dan on top of everything, mek rase, msg movie nih secara tidak langsung adelah nak tunjuk to those yang ANTI habis2an org cam kitaorang nih, (also pelac2 perems yang dipandang kezis itiew semua), kami TETAP seperti korang lain yang straight - we are still human, still ade hati, dan I'd say MOST of us, kalau tak 100%, maybe 95.999999% of us STILL ingatkanNYA. Yang patut menghukum ppl like us is HIM - bukan org lain. U ols, SUSAH mek nak sexplain kat sini. Kang emo, mek salah cakap, laiiiiiiiiiiin pulak jadiknya. Apa kata u ols tgk sendiri lah citernya? Yang penting msg mek pulak mek nak habaq... jgn judge us terlalu awal sebab kami bukan seperti yang lain. Tak semua golongan ketiga nih jijiques. Tak semua geng2 kaum kami nih kerjanya asiklaaaaaaaaaaaaaa mengongkek aje, asik lah hadapkan konekkk jer. Some of us ade yang berjaya ok, business maju, itu ini, pangkat2 besau... (Daahhhh dahh! MEK RASE MEK DAH NAK MULA EMO! Baik mek stop! Ehehehe)

"Religion plays a big part in the movie. It's a very sensitive issue because they still believe in God. Some will say occasionally that "God hates me," but then they also believe that God loves everybody." - Director Osman Ali


Overall mek say this is a VERY "you should watch it lar" type of movie. Tak tahu la mana nak dapat vcd tu. Mek pon secara tidak sengaj jer terjumpa vcd nih. Apa apa pon... kalau nak tahu lebih2 lanjut, layari jer laman web INI u ols, ok? :)

"Unapologetic"
- Amir Muhammad, malaysiakini.com

"The most shocking locally-made film ever"
- Sherry Siebel, The Sun

"Realiti ...Realiti itu menakutkan"
- Miss Ribut, Mingguan Malaysia

"Controversial yet absolutely necessary"
- Terrina Hussein, The Malay Mail

"Mendedahkan yang benar"
- Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir

"Brutally honest"
- Jacobus Raj, Day & Night


Click SINI utk ulasan BUKAK API dari website FilemKita.com... :)



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Posted at 12:47:25 am by Nurlea Laurielle Lai Lee Abdullah

Nini
August 5, 2005   01:39 AM PDT
 
Wish they would be more open instead of banning this and that...... too many ignorant people out there
nasikgorengusa
August 5, 2005   09:38 AM PDT
 
nasik dah tgk dis movie last year.. i hv to admit tht d truth oways hurt. bjaya gak bukak mata nasik. as one of golongan manusia ketiga (?), i realize tht kiter kena paham diri sendiri n bukan harapkan org lain utk paham kite... lupa nak mention 2 u semlm.. nice to know u... :)
Futeri Balqis
August 5, 2005   07:00 PM PDT
 
nyehhh, masa mak first time nengok cerita ni, mak menangis nangis nangis non stop, pastu mak nangis-nangis nangis dan nangis lagi non stop, especially part si riena dapat HIV +ve (choiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii) mak nangis nangis nangis lagi, pastu mak terus buang wig-wig mak, terus cabut kelaur silikon tetek mak, dan terus menjadi pengkid.

mak sedih you all.



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