The real "fenomena"
... is how much ignorance is allowed to permeate our mass media.
I've only just went digital and still HAVE to rant about this. Apa nak buat, tak tahan siaaalll
Fenomena Seni on RTM1 last month... hosted by Rosyam Nor, starring a guest panel of Raja Azmi (only claim to fame was marriage to one of the Sidek badminton family, a crap book bordering on Malay porn lit, and two half-assed movies that you wouldn't even bother with even when it's on rerun slots on free tv), Akmal Abdullah (some associate entertainemnt editor with a local Malay daily, some would say is a big player behind the bad unresearched reporting a.k.a. fairy tale stories designed to make money and NOT to tell the truth, like the Black Metal fiasco)... and some other dude that I didn't really notice (funny how asinine ignorance can just turn people into wallpaper material).
The topic was discussing the "phenomenon" of Sepet and Gubra contaminating our pure-as-the-driven-snow Malay culture.
(You do realise that it's not about Sepet and Gubra. These people just cannot accept that Yasmin Ahmad "got the plot" first before they could move out of their schema-ass slumber.)
Here were some of the more irksome points :
1. It's not reflective of social reality (Akmal Abdullah)
OH REALLY? Maybe that's what movies do - tell stories. To some people outside the tempurung you've slept your life under - that could be their perceived reality, their way of life. Some of us actually mix with other races. Some of us come from mixed families. Some of us have relationships with people of other races/religions. And films are how the director sees a piece of work/art. It may not be YOUR reality, your utopian fantasy of one race, one religion. Maybe you can make a film about your fantasy world lah.
If the fact that it's not reflecting society is such a big stick up your butt, what about movies like (vomit) Cinta 200 Ela? OR the insipid females in many of our shows like Sembilu, Cinta Fotokopi, Main-main Cinta, etc? Or the "maksiat" and touching that prevails in there too? Is Sembilu 2004 (or whatever) correct because the Pan-Asian boy didn't get together with the Malay girl at the end because their families were against it and he went back to England (aka where he belongs?).
Give me an effing break.
2. Akmal was very upset at the fact that a Muslim girl had entered a shop selling (gasp! faint! cue lightning bolts!) PORK.
Did it show her eating anything from there? No.
Did her presence there give some signal to Muslims around the world saying "It's okay! Let's gorge on as much pig-meat as possible because we can't ALL go to hell!"
Come on lah. Guna otak tu sikit.
She was just sitting there. Not even a morsel of bah kut teh or chee-yoke passing her pure-as-driven-snow Mulsim lips. Was the right thing for her to do was stand outside, wailing and tearing out her haiur in despair, wondering how the hell would she enter a sinful place and NOT burn into a ball of flames?
Please lah.
Kalau macam tu - amacam pulak dengan anak-anak Melayu yang berduyun-duyun ke kelab-kelab hiburan untuk berjoli sakan dengan kawan-kawan (yang definitely not muhrim I can tell you that!) sambil bergelek-gelek, bergesel-gesel... jangan lupa arak yang tak lepas dari tangan.
HOw's THAT for depicting reality, mister?
What about THIS for reality then? Your next movie should include this scene to be as real as possible : some tudung-clad chicks having sex in the staircase (still in their hijab, nonetheless, for that kinky appeal) of their university dorm, or more popularly, any kind of park with a body of water nearby. How's that for REALITY, mister?
What about the dirty old men who cheat on their wives with some young thing... bringing back either #2 or an STD? Oh wait I think that's done. (Remember, in Malay movies the bad female character is always the one with the cigarette. Because in the real world, apparently, only bad people smoke. And girls who smoke are prostitutes or gangster's girlfriends.)
3. Raja Azmi repeating the words "Tanah Ini Melayu Punya" and saying that we've got enough representation of multi-racial society already so no need to show more lah... and plus, the other races should be so lucky that the Malay race is so sopan-santun in tolerating their presence here.
Aiyoh. If the Malay people were all thinking like this woman, this country would've gone down the drain long time ago. Despite the spoonfed, everything-handed-on-a-silver-platter priviledges given to one race - it doesn't mean the role of the other races have to be downplayed. We built this country together. We still are.
Raja Azmi if you're so set on this superior Malay race (I believe we should all just be equal, or are you above us because of your badminton family connections, hyuk hyuk) why don't you just get some goddamn island and move yourself and Akmal there and live in peace.
Here we are trying to finally make EVERYONE feel like they belong FOR ONCE. And you just wanna make the rest of us feel like immigrants. PLease lah. Bukak buku sejarah tu sikit.
And while we're on the whole Malay-Is-Great thing - let me just say Raja Azmi - yang mana lagi mencemarkan budaya - cinta antara dua orang muda, or adegan lucah dalam buku yang setengah masak?
3. "Isteri yang solehah akan duduk di rumah dan masak untuk suami" (Raja Azmi)
Kalau macam tu, kau duduk rumahlah. Takyah tulis buku, buat filem ni semua. Buang masa. Nanti terlalai pulak suami tersayang. Masak, basuh baju, bersih rumah... ha.... at least berfaedah sikit your life yang quite half baked tu. PLus we can do without your crap works of, er, CRAP.
I know what the crux of the issue is :
They're just antsy because they can't stand the idea of some "educated Malay girl" (Orked, good student in school) falling in love with some (lowly, pork-eating, infidel) Chinese VCD seller.
That's what this is about. Remember how they couldn't stand the idea of Adlin Aman Ramli in that ad, giving a bad name to Malay men? The idea of an educated Malay man who's NOT polite and courteous was WRONG. WRONG. WRONG.
Apparently, the Malay race is the most pure and perfect race, with no flaws, no wrongdoing, always polite and courteous and will only date other Malays of proper and strict religious upbringing, and the women get married fast in order to complete their responsibilities as isteri solehah to just shut the eff up and be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen until menapause. And when that hits - watch for Wife version #2, 3 and 4. But we're all polite and wonderful and will never do anything wrong. Unlike EVERYONE ELSE, right?
Apparently this is what happens in the little world that is Akmal Abdullah and Raja Azmi. Must be nice to live in fairy-tale land all your life.
WHAT THE HELL KINDA CRACK ARE THESE PEOPLE ON TO BE SO DAMN DELUSIONAL?
10:34 PM
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