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Film Studies II - Sepet

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Sepet is a Malaysian romantic comedy film directed by Yasmin Ahmad in year. The film take place in Ipoh, Malaysia. Sepet is a Malay vocab that refers to the 'slit eyes' of the Chinese people. This film contain message about how different races learn and understand each other culture Sepet is about a tale that a Chinese boy, Jason aka Ah Loong fall in love with a Malay girl, Orked when she and her friend arrive at the CD stall which in charge by Jason to find her favourite actor Takeshi Kaneshiro's film. Both of them fall in love at first sight and started to hang out together after that day. Even though they having different culture and religious background, their relationship get supported by both their parents and friends. But at the end Orked decided to leave Jason and went for oversea study as she she fount out Jason cheat on her. At the beginning of this film, the protagonist, Jason was explaining the translated Indian poem to his mother in Cantonese while his mo...

Film Studies II - The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain

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The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain is a French romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet in year 2001. The story setting take place in Montmartre, Paris, which is primarily known for its artistic history. The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain was a co- production between France and Germany companies.This film is the highest-grossing French-language film when released in United States, and it s also one of the successful French movie in worldwide. The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain begin with young little innocent A mélie Poulain, her eccentric parents mistaken her having heart defect and decided to home school her, having this l onely childhood make her develop a mischievous personality and whimsical imagination. Her mother was killed by a suicidal tourist when she was six, this lead her father who withdrawal from society become worsen. At the age of 18, Amélie leaves home and work as a waitress at   Café des 2 Moulins in Montmartre, where she met a bunch of ...

Film Studies II - Fantastic Mr Fox

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Fantastic Mr Fox is a American stop-motion film directed by Wes Anderson in year 2009. The film is based on Roald Dahl's same name children's novel. The message contain in this film is how one man trying to manage his relationship problem with others and how he used his intelligence to turnover a crisis into opportunity. Fantastic Mr Fox is about the life of Mr. Fox. When his wife, Felicity was pregnant, Mr. Fox promised her not to steal and get a decent job for their family, but he broke his word and went to raid the three well known wealthy and evil farmers in the valley, Bean, Bunce and Boggis farm with his friend, Kylie and Felicity's nephew, Kristofferson. Three of them been spotted stealing and the three farmers plan to hunt down Mr. Fox, this has lead Mr fox's family and his friends involve into the crisis of being hunt. Mr. Fox is a very cunning but incredibly clever than the three farmer and an expert at planning things, this personality is fully show...

Film Studies II - Bunohan

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Bunohan is a Malaysian drama thriller film, written and directed by Dain Iskandar Said and released on 8 March 2012. Bunohan were praised for its solid, visceral storytelling and arresting photography. The film take place in the rural town of Bunohan, which located close to the Thai border. Bunohan is a story about three brothers, from the eldest to the youngest, Ilham, Bakar and Adil aka Bunga Lalang. The film starts with Adil as a Tomoi kick boxer who agree to fight till the death in a club at Thailand, he was later rescued by his friends as he was going to lose the fight. Adil flee with his friends to Adil's hometown, Bunohan, "Murder" in English. Adil is chase after by Ilham which send by the kickboxing club owner to assassinate him, but later both of them discovered they are stepbrother, and Bakar, the greedy businessman has return home. Bakar as a two-faced character, acting he is care about his old man, Pok Eng. but in reality he just wanted to get the old man...