Film, Indonesia, Film

Holiday in home means spending a lot of time to watch TV. One of the international channel that attract me is Fox Crime. Maybe it's because the series that was broadcasted was interesting and unique. Most of them have the major theme, Crime, but with different kind of show. For example, Bones, CSI, Criminal Minds, NCIS, Lie to Me, all of them tell about how the police catch the bad guys, but with different kind of story. Dexter, Leverage, tell about how the bad guys work.

This channel got a high rate in every single place in the world, means everybody can enjoy and like it (the theme, Crime ):D

then my biggest question is,

why don't Indonesia make a movie or series with the theme like this?

crime series here aren't violent and cruel, but they tells the how interesting is the process, for the good guy to catch the bad guy, or otherwise

I'm not the only TV watcher, and I believe that there're lots of Indonesian filmmaker who watch the same series. This is something 'out-of-box' than our usual TV consumption in Indonesia, which always tell about love stories (with never ending), or tragic stories (also with never ending).

Where're the creativity from the Indonesian filmmakers?

My friend, Akhdan, commented that 'market demand' and 'chasing payments mental' had beat the creativity and quality from Indonesian series/movies

when was the last time you watch Indonesian movie that you considered good?

For me, It's was a long time ago, when the movie such as AADC, or Jelangkung were on. Those are some of Indonesian movies that I considered 'suit' to be shown in Cinema.

Currently, there're moral and quality degradation in Indonesian movies, lot's of them. Seems like it's really easy to make a popular cinema film here. the key is you only have to use sexy players, even though the story was shallow, although the shoot was in a total bad quality. And moreover, lots of people watch it. what a mess.

Somehow I miss when our country can produced a great movie, a movie that people talks about it, a movie that can bring us to be a better people, or a movie that can open our mind.

Lot's of inspiring stories or theme were out there, and our creativity wait here wonder when they will be used. So, will we only shut and do nothing?

Let's make a move Guys! :)