Neo-Nazi

BBC reported that there was a violence-promoting group on the internet. They work online to get young white people recruited. This organization also promoted their illusion of white supremacy. By being so, they could categorized as a neo-Nazi.

Nazi was a party that formed in the early world war II. The loss of Germany in the first world war, incinerated the spirit of German nationalism based on their dominance of certain race. The Nazis believed that their Aria race are the best amongst others. They think that Aryans was the next stage of human evolution. Considering the principle of “survival of the fittest”, they eliminate another non-aryan human.

The central figure of this Nazi movement was Adolf Hitler. He was a soldier in the first world war. After all, he was the one who started world war two and end it with his own loss. Hitler known to be dead by suicide. And nobody knows where his remaining body was.

In one title of the movie, Hitler came back to life. This was a fictional story. Even so, the film depicted of how the spirit of hatred actually never died. The film was: Looks Who’s Back.

One day, Hitler woke up in the surrounding of his previous bunker. He shocked that Germany has changed. Unbeknownst, a news reporter was taking a video while Adolf was resurrected. Later on, he looked for Hitler and took him to travel across Germany.

The trip was packed in a documentary movie. Then, he proposed it to his boss on TV company. The chief editor of this TV was a female, Katja Bellini. Later on, she became the key role in re-promoting Hitler to public. Hitler imagine that she was the Leni Riefenstahl of a modern age. Leni was a movie director whom also being a Nazi sympathizer.

As a satire, this movie was quite an entertainment. Hitler shown as a clumsy man who hardly adapted to the new technology, such as personal computer and email. He was also portrayed as a caricature drawer when he needs money to continue the trip. This became some kind of an alternative universe considering Hitler himself was actually a painter back then before world war one happened.

At the end of the story, Hitler’s popularity gained back as well as his deadly ideology has been risen up. A glimpse of picture of right wing politician shown as a symbol of Hitler’s awakening. And the report from BBC in the beginning of this essay, prove so. []

Gangster

John Kei and Nus Kei caught in a problem. They are nobody—in terms of civil rights. Reality speaks, they are not nobody. Their personal problems turned to be a public attention, due to the involvement of violence.

There was a video shown the moment where two people harmed in Tangerang, Banten. They were attacked by 5 perpetrators. Consequently, one of the casuality has died on his way to the hospital.

He was Yustus Corwing Rahakbau. This 46 years old man was one of Nus Kei’s subordinate. Yustus was killed because 5 men of John Kei couldn’t met with Nus. John and Nus had an issue. They disagree with the profit sharing of land trade in Ambon.

Previously, John Kei was well known for his notorious reputation as a convicted murder of Sanex Steel Indonesia’s boss, Tan Harry Tantono. In 2013, Kei was jailed for 16 years.

On the end of 2019, John Kei whom incarcerated in the high security jail of Nusa Kambangan, have gotten a parole. This freedom trial was valid until 31 of March in 2025.

Up until I wrote this piece, police hasn’t been labeled John for his involvement in the attack on last Sunday. Guns as an evidence, and 3 men whom shot on the place of crime scene still be missing.

I remember to The Godfather. This movie from 1972 tells the story of criminal gang: The Corleone family. Don Vito Corleone came from Sicily Italy to New York and built his illegal business empire.

This business competition leads to several murders. The Corleones have four enemies: Barzini, Tataglia, Cuneu and Stracci. And New York became their battle field.

Mario Puzo, the writer of novel which it became the source of this movie, never stated whether The Godfather was based on the real event or not. In fact, in Italy gangs has their own power.

In 2016, Al Jazeera released a documentary movie entitled A Very Sicilian Justice: Taking on the Mafia. It tells about how gang members are trying to terrorize the law enforcer.

Meet Di Mateo, a judge who wants to break a tie between government and mafia. He received black mail due to his involvement in taking illegal business mafia to judiciary. On this threat, Di Mateo was not alone.

There was also Massimo Chancemino, son of one of mafia member in government body. He became the whistleblower to the disclosure of hidden relation of politician and gang members. Their battle against mafia activity, gained a support from Italian youngsters.

In Indonesia, somehow the relation between “mafia” and politicians obviously seen. Through how corruptors were caught in their luxurious cells. From how goverment tried to ease their punishment. Or even more, based on how Novel Baswedan, the senior investigators of KPK, beg for justice as he was blinded by police.

Once again, police commitment to law enforcement was at stake. The way they handle John Kei’s case, was one of the parameter. []

Sokola Rimba

I am keen on Riri Riza’s movie. I guess, there were only about 2 out 20 of his films that I have missed to watch. Those are: Eliana Eliana and Atambua 39^o Celcius. Before this day, the list are longer as Sokola Rimba was included on it. And now, I have watched one.

Sokola Rimba told about the life of Suku Anak Dalam, through the struggling of an environmental activist, Butet Manurung. Butet worked at a local NGO to accompany the jungle people facing the modernity.

She taught kids reading and counting. Her motivation, simply to make them be able to read the contract of land expansion. Commonly, people of Suku Anak Dalam didn’t understand the dealings. So much so that their compensation was only a few number of daily needs. Hence, their land of living were squeezing and converted to palm plantation.

One day, Butet was comatosed due to the hard way to reach jungle. She helped by a boy from the downstream of Makekal river. His name was Nyungsang Bungo. Actually, Bungo wanted to learn reading and counting as another kid of different Suku Anak Dalam tribe has had. Unfortunately, there was a belief that pencils brought misery. This dillema was also faced by Butet.

This movie was inspired by the real life of Butet. Though has done a helpful act to save the people of Suku Anak Dalam in Jambi South Sumatera, Butet felt powerless. She cannot stop the moving process of deforestation. On the other hand, forest was the only place where Suku Anak Dalam could extend their future.

There was a tradition of Melangun. It means moving from one place to another in the jungle. Suku Anak Dalam held Melangun only if one or some of their community member has died. If their explorable land had been converted to a monocultured jungle, their life would be hard. The Anak Dalams wouldn’t had a chance to gather food. On the other hand, their existence could prevent deforestation as their way of life was very ecologically sustainable.

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Tadi siang nongkrong di kineruku, baca sekilas buku-buku ini. Tapi yang paling disimak sih buku soal @garin_film. Baca soal film surat untuk bidadari, jadi inget film marlina si pembunuh dalam empat babak yang baru-baru ini juara di cannes film festival. Unsurnya ada yang sama: pembunuhan dan sumba. Di buku ini juga dijelaskan visi garin tentang pengembangan SDM perfilman. Disebut beberapa kali bahwa ia mempercayakan rivai riza yang masih 25 tahun jadi kepala produksi. Saya baru sadar siapa rivai riza setelah disebut di tulisan akhir-akhir bahwa dia sutradara kuldesak dan petualngan sherina. Ternyata dia @rizariri. Hehehe. Giliran berikutnya baca buku skenario GIE, yang ditulis "rivai riza" tadi selama bertahun-tahun. Surga pasti sesuatu yang berkaitan dengan perpustakaan. Kata seorang sastrawan amerika latin #filmbook #filmindonesia

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Through this film, Riri Riza showed us one method that had been pioneered by Garin Nugroho. In the book entitled Membaca Film Garin, Philip Cheah stated that Garin Nugroho was made the first movie in Indonesia that was starred by a local actor and actress. The film was Surat Untuk Bidadari.

In that book, there was also information about Garin’s head of production, whom he was still at the age of 25 while making Surat Untuk Bidadari. His name was Rivai Riza, or we known him nowadays as Riri Riza.

According to his experiences of directing local people on “local tasted films”, Riri Riza was quite successful in delivering the message. The way Bungo told their tradition of honey hunting, was exhiliriating. I love the cartoon visualization on that part of the movie. And the decision to let Bungo dubb a certain substory, means that Jakartans movie maker, passed the microphone to the primary source of information. And that act of saying opinion was always be relevant up until this kind of circumstances. []

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