Sunday, November 21, 2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 - Movie Review a la Amateur



Hiya! Been a long time since my last post in bahasa Indonesia! Now i'm gonna give you all my movie review. Ahem, this contains SPOILER, so if you don't read the book, you have two options, leave this page or continue reading and curse me later. LOL


Okay, here's the thing. I'm gonna write this so-called movie review in some kinda annoying language. Hehehe, i'm gonna use two languages, bahasa Indonesia, as my mother tongue, cause i find it difficult to mean what i mean (duh!) in English if i can't find the closest meaning to it. And um, since i started this post in English, consider that my psych language. Hehehe...




Here goes,
Cerita bermula dari hari Jumat, 18 Nopember 2010, di mana teman saya Monica menunjukkan saya sebuah kertas berisi jadwal pemutaran film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (selanjutnya saya sebut HP#7). Saat itu Monica sedang mencari Ayoe, partner setianya untuk Twilight Saga (maaf, nyamber dan nggak fokus). Saya tahu Monica dan Ayoe akan mengusahakan sekuat tenaga untuk menonton HP#7. So, me with my brilliantly wicked mind, asked her about their plan to watch it. Hehehe, i did take advantage of their madness. Now, you see how smart and mean i was. Hehehehe.. untungnya mereka orang baik yang mencintai saya (kebohongan besar!!!) sehingga saya dimasukkan ke rencana nonton bareng. 


To be honest, i'm not a fan of the HP movies. I mean, they suck! Yeah, i get it if you hate me for what i said. Well. it's just that the books are too wonderful compared to the movies. Well, that's just an opinion. I think i'm just a bitter hard-to-please kind of audience. A smart-a** director wannabe who can't accept the fact that making films is not as easy as 1-2-3. But this time, what i mean by this time is THIS HP#7, I LOVED IT. I-EFFING-LOVED-IT!!!




Wonder why??? Here's why 
Masih terngiang dalam benak saya mengenai "tragedi" Harry Potter and the Order of Phoniex   yang diakibatkan oleh sutradara David Yates dan kru. Saya rasa saat itu saya ingin menggantung Tuan Yates karena telah "mengebiri" film yang mestinya diisi oleh banyak sekali aksi, terutama aksi saat Fred dan George Weasley keluar dari Hogwarts. That scene should have been phenomenal! Instead, it wasn't even close. Like it wasn't even in the neighborhood! Duh!!! Seolah "kejahatan" Tuan Yates belum cukup buruk, film selanjutnya, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince yang menurut saya masih tidak memuaskan, lagi-lagi sutradara ini membuat saya kesal dengan adegan yang esensinya tidak penting. Apalagi kalau bukan adegan ciuman antara Harry-Ginny. Kesalnya bukan karena saya penggemar berat Daniel Radcliffe. Adegan itu memang ada di buku, tapi pada saat yang tepat. Nah, "kejahatan" Tuan Yates (yang dulu saya sebut dengan Tuan Yikes, hehehe...) adalah membuat film ini seolah film remaja kacangan yang nggak penting banget dewwhhh!


Okay, back to HP#7, too much chit-chat...
Dengan ekspektasi biasa-biasa saja, saya pergi menonton film ini. Terlebih ketika saya membaca bahwa akan ada adegan mesra antara Harry-Hermione. Nah ini membuat saya kesal. Karena tidak ada kemesraan antara mereka berdua dalam imaji saya mengenai cerita HP. Justru dengan adanya hubungan pertemanan macam Harry-Hermione inilah, saya percaya pria dan wanita bisa berteman murni, tanpa romantika apapun (sumpah, ingin ngakak rasanya membaca kalimat saya tadi!)
Dengan pemikiran penuh curiga, saya menyiapkan diri untuk "mencaci-maki" film yang mungkin jadi film terakhir yang saya tunggu di tahun 2010 ini. But then, i almost couldn't find anything to mock here. Hey, what about the make-out scene i mentioned before?! Well, i thought Yates was trying to make this as a stupid-but-true scene just like what he did before. But he didn't. Thank God, he is not a Yikes to me anymore. Hehehe...


Saya suka dengan cara Tuan Yates menerjemahkan buku ke dalam film. Tentu saja saya yakin bahwa penulis naskahnya yang hebat, membuat film ini menarik tanpa memotong informasi yang perlu diketahui penonton yang bukan pembaca. Beberapa adegan dan dialog lucu terasa pas, tanpa efek lebay dan nggak perlu. Mengenai esensi adegan mesra Harry-Hermione, yang tadinya (karena belum lihat dan hanya membaca di koran internet) membuat saya kesal, justru menjadi kartu truf bagi adegan di mana Ron menghancurkan salah satu horcrux. Saya rasa Yates hanya ingin membangun karakter Ron dan menggunakan momen yang tepat untuk membuat betapa Ron berhasil melakukan sesuatu. 


Mungkin ada sedikit yang kurang dari film ini, yakni ketika adegan penguburan Dobby. Yes, people, to refresh your memory, he was killed by Lestrange. The scene was good, um, no, it was great. I cried, see (which means my 3rd cry this month, such a baby i am...) when Dobby said, "It's a good place... to be with friends..." 
When Dobby died in Harry's arms, then Luna came and said, "We need to close his eyes." She put her right hand on Dobby's face and closed his eyelids. "There, now he's sleeping." Sumpah, layar bioskop jadi buram. Perasaan saya sama seperti saat membaca bukunya. But, i'm so sorry that they left out 'Here Lies Dobby, A Free Elf' part after Harry and friends buried him. But that was nearly a perfect job for Warner Bros. 


The part when Hermione had to erase her parents memories was great. Emma Watson did a great job here. Her expression gave me chills. Also, the expression she put on when Hermione looked at the kiss Ron-Mrs. Cattermole was priceless. Hahah!


I loved the moment when Harry-Ron-Hermione were at Lovegood's. Hermione was reading the Three Brothers story, "...at twilight," and Ron cut, "Midnight. My Mom always says 'Midnight'." Then, she gave him that look and he said, "Twilight is good. (gulp) Twilight is better." Ahahahaha! 


I was a bit bothered by the "Zip-me-up" scene by Ginny. Thanks to the comic relief by George Weasley. That better-be-gone scene was "obliviated" from my memory. Er, no, it still lingers hehehe... the charm didn't work, yeah?


Long story short, i love this HP movie. Hopefully the part 2 later will be as great. And um, i want to see this young Gellert Grindelwald. Potrayed by Jamie C. Bower who is also in the Twilight saga. I don't know which one is which for i don't give a damn about Twilight. I want to see how Yates and crew bring the imagination to life. 


Well, well done Warner Bros. You successfully made me give you credit this time, though, yes, people, i know my credit doesn't count.


Hit me back just to check,
Surely yours,


Lou