Story with an interesting premise quickly evolved into an absurdist satire with no sense of subtlety.
Absurdist satire works when the absurd is believable, but a lot of the characterisation and story choices are absurd in a manner that is just absurd.
Nicolas Cage makes a good performance, but doesnt do enough to make this good.
As I mentioned in my previous review of Crossroads: One Two Jaga, there's a significant richness and authenticity in the multiculturalism that's demonstrated in many South East Asian films. Perhaps, more so in Sepet, a romance film that tries to embrace the multiculturalism whilst riskily pokes at the tension arising from this.
The film, one of the most popular Malaysian films, is about the romance between a Malay lady, Orked (Sharifah Amani) and a Chinese man, Jason/Ah Loong (Ng Choo…
Jagat is a fantastic movie which showcases the talent of director, Shanjhey Kumar Perumal and its cast and crew. I haven't really seen many Malaysian-made film, but Jagat touches on a lot of things that Malaysian movies seem to avoid talking about in a way that hits hard and truthfully. The film tells of the plight of the poverty-stricken Indian communities of the early 90s and is a strong critic of the rigid and conservative Malaysian education system and society.…
