A night at the movies: Sepet

After a weekend watching OScar winning movies and all, I decided to taste some local flavour watching our locally produced movie , Sepet. What the $@#% ? you may think , but trust me this is one local movie you must not miss as it brings a fresh air to otherwise stale air of local movie industry. The movie may not have a big budget but what it have is a good script. Even though the movie deals with a love story (whats new ?) between a chinese ah beng VCD seller and some cool Malay girl, the focus of the movie is the script that the actors follow. No fake Cerekarama dialog here but the realistic mixture of Malay, Chinese and English that all of are guilty of speaking everyday. Watching the movie is enjoyable with the two new actors in the lead roles shining through their debut ( the suppoting actors are great as well). Despite the poor post production due to low budget , the movie is one movie that the country has been long waiting for, a movie that doesnt have fake dialogs that only we can see or hear on TV, a movie that has a multiracial cast and also enjoyable to watch. Its a small step, but small steps lead to bigger steps and hopefully one day, we can have a movie as good as what Hong Kong and Thailand produces. Wanna know more, go catch Sepet today!!