CINTA - the movie this time..

Have you guys watched the movie Cinta yet? Ok, for the record I am not a sucker for Malay movies, and apart from P.Ramlee comedies, the only Malay movies I thoroughly enjoy are Yasmin Ahmad’s and Afdlin Shauki’s. But all that media hype on Cinta just blew me away..and admittedly because of Rahim Razali and the like, I was quite quite curious.

So, a few days after it opened in cinemas, off we went. My verdict? Well, for a Malay movie, it was very enjoyable although admittedly some lines were too sappy and cliché. But on the whole the dialog was really good, great acting and loads of emotional scenes. So yes, I cried..

The media promoted it as “10 Bintang, 5 Kisah Cinta, 1 Cerita.” And it provokes you further by saying, yang mana kisah anda, or something like that lah. Hmm…I think I most certainly related to the love story between the married couple, played by Rashidi Ishak and Rita Rudaini. (I tak pernah tau sapa this lady before this, but she is not bad..).

Just a little gist, they were teenage sweethearts, she’s known him since she was 18, I think. To him, she had always been the one, and he had consistently pursued her and wooed her with sweet nothings, lovely sketches and poetic words. For her, he was just there, and with all that attention, she had simply gone with the flow and never bothered to fight it. After marriage and a kid later, she slowly realized it takes more than mere affection to stay together. Indeed, it takes something a lot deeper, it takes true love..

The way I saw it - sekadar perasan kasih sayang belum cukup menjanjikan kebahagiaan, belum pasti menjamin keindahan nan abadi.

So, in essence, that was what happened. She did not stop loving him, but she came to the realization that she needed to be in love to stay with him. He was a loving husband, a doting dad, but their love was just not meant to be. And oh how I cried, the night before she moved out, the quiet moments he spent with his little girl..and the broken man he became after she left.

Why I related to that one? I don’t know..maybe because I felt so close to walking away, like she did. And maybe because I thank God, I did not…

bukan mudah membina rasa
bukan mudah mencorak kasih
bukan mudah mencari cinta
kata kata mungkin membuai perasaan..
belaian dan sentuhan mungkin
menjadi igauan..

namun hakikatnya, cinta itu datang jua,
terlalu indah
bila ia menyapa…dan terus disuburkan
dengan seribu kenangan
walau luka dan airmata
sering menyinggah
walau peritnya pengorbanan
tapi cukup
mengajar erti tanggungjawab
erti perkongsian

bilamana rasa itu tanpa sangsi
bilamana kasih kukuh bertaut
bilamana cinta bukan lagi mimpi
kebahagiaan paling manis
pasti…


‘nuff said. As for the rest of the movie..go watch lah..