Twelve-year-old Singaporean-Malay girl Salawati recently witnessed the death of her older brother. In the aftermath of his death, a group of loutish Indian couriers and a troubled Chinese family become possible suspects in the crime as the boys death raises questions of faith and forgiveness in this touching drama.
Salawati is one of the few Malay movies that is purely Singapore production. And because of that, I went to watch it in the cinemas (just now) with low expectation. I would say extremely low expectation. Now you readers might think that I would say that this movie is excellent because of the typical phrase of *low expectation turned out to be good*, *high expectation turned out to be dissappointing*. But, if you asked me to rate Salawati in a scale of 10, I would say...
ZERO! Thats right! You saw it clearly! ZERO! KOSONG! NONE! TELUR!
Seriously, it dont even deserve a 1 out of 10. The storyline is crappy, script is Astaughfirullahalazim, camera movement wise is boring, the whole outlook of it looks cheap, editing is no good even at first few minutes of the movie, acting is average, hmmm what else can I say... Ah the only good thing is the music, which is okay.
The best thing is, the cinema is crowded! (which puzzled me). I mean, how can anyone have the intention to watch this movie? Yez it is very crowded. It has a total of 4 people (including me and me fren). Thats very crowded.
Lets talk more about the movie shall we. The pacing is extremely slow. You will go *can i fast forward the movie? when is it goin to finish? Cepatlah!!*. The script, on the other hand, is something that most of us already know about. Of coz there are afew good lines (2-3 to be exact). It discuss about life and death, but in a very vague way. Nothing to ponder about, nothing to make u think. And there is no good shots at all! ALl the shots are BELOW average. And the camera has a bad habit of staying at an angle for a couple of minutes.
But of course if you look at the trailer below you will find it interesting. It IS a trailer after all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H724WsDVjzQ
I think thats about it.
2 comments:
Nasib aku tk tgk. I was abt to watch that movie sey. Hahaha! (:
Hey , I'm Aisyah . the actress for Salawati . I appreciate ur time and effort watching the movie . though you may not find it interesting . But its a story where you have to feel . It discuss about human relationship . But at least they have a malay movie after P.ramlee's popular movie . But i hope this wont stop you from supporting local malay movies . salaam . (:
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