Slamet Ambari dan Ubaidillah Pemeran Film Turah Dukung Harris Turino

Kesederhanaan, keterbukaan, keakraban dan keberanian adalah ciri dan karakter dominan masyarakat Tegal. Ini tercermin dengan jelas pada sosok seorang Slamet Ambari (pemeran Jadag) dan Ubaidillah (pemeran Turah), dua orang hebat asal Tegal yang menjadi pemeran utama dalam film Turah yang baru saja mendapatkan penghargaan dalam Best Duet dari Popcon Asia.

Jelas ini bukan penghargaan yang pertama, tapi sudah yang kesekian kalinya. Walau film nya tidak memiliki nilai komersial yang tinggi, tetapi Turah sudah melanglang buana dan meraih puluhan penghargaan internasional, baik di Asia maupun Eropa.

Slamet Ambari dan Ubaidillah Pemeran Film Turah Dukung Harris Turino

Untuk kesekian kalinya saya menonton lagi film Turah. Kali ini di IFI (Institut Francais Indonesia) Thamrin yang terletak di dalam Kedutaan Besar Perancis di Jakarta.

Yang istimewa adalah acara nonton bareng ini dihadiri oleh mas Jadag dan mas Turah sebagai dua tokoh sentral dalam film tersebut. Sayang sang sutradara, mas Wicaksono Wisnu Legowo ndak bisa hadir.

Film berbahasa Tegal ini mengangkat keseharian masyarakat yang hidup di perkampungan miskin di Desa Tirang. Sutradaranya orang Tegal, semua pemainnya juga orang Tegal.

Film ini adalah salah satu yang menginspirasi saya (Harris Turino) untuk maju menjadi Calon Anggota DPR RI dari PDI Perjuangan dalam Pileg 2019. Saya yang lahir dan dibesarkan di kota Slawi (Tegal) ingin bisa berbuat sesuatu buat daerah di mana saya berasal.

Yuk teman-teman dari Kabupaten Tegal, Kota Tegal dan Kabupaten Brebes, kita berjuang bersama. Bukan untuk saya, tapi untuk kita masyarakat Kabupaten Tegal, Kota Tegal dan Kabupaten Brebes. Demi kehidupan masyarakat yang lebih baik.

The Life of David Gale

Synopsis

A University of Texas professor of philosophy and capital punishment abolitionist, David Gale, is on Death Row convicted of the rape and murder of his best friend, Constance Harraway, who was the leader of the local branch of Death Watch, an organization campaigning against the death penalty. Days before his execution, skeptical journalist Bitsey Bloom is sent by the weekly news magazine where she works to conduct David Gale's final interview. She is accompanied by trainee reporter (AmE: "intern") Zack Stemmons.

Gale's lawyer is Braxton Belyeu, an ageing eccentric with a long ponytail. We learn that Gale asked specifically for Bloom, and will talk only to her. They are to have two hours on each of four consecutive days, after which Gale will be executed at 6 o'clock in the evening. Belyeu and Stemmons leave the prison and Gale starts to tell Bloom his story, which we see in a series of flashbacks.

Gale's marriage was in difficulties, and relations with his wife Sharon strained, but he was devoted to his small son Jamie. We see Gale lecturing on philosophy to a large class of students. Then a couple of minutes before the end of the lecture period a beautiful female student called Berlin arrives noisily and Gale pauses while she takes her seat. Then, as the students leave after dismissal, Berlin attempts to tempt Gale to give her a better term mark in exchange for sex. He tells her quietly but firmly that the way to get a better mark is to study. However, not long after that Gale finds himself one evening at a party with faculty and students, and Berlin catches him alone in a luxurious bathroom. Locking the door, she tells him she has quit class and isn't his student any more, and that she wants sex with him anyway.

Gale gives in to temptation but soon finds himself accused of rape. His world falls apart: he loses his university post; his wife leaves him taking their son and moves to Spain, selling their house; and even the (unseen by us) national leader of Death Watch wants local organizer Constance Harraway to have no more to do with him. We see Gale stting distraught on the step of the path to his house front door, clutching his little boy's favourite soft toy to him, as his wife and son are driven away in a taxi; we see him in a conversation with a university dean who explains there is no way he can give Gale a job because of his reputation; and we see him in an interview attempting to get a job in business and hopelessly lost when asked to give three reasons why they should hire him. Gale, now jobless and homeless, turns heavily to drink; we see him in a bar, then staggering along a crowded sidewalk at night shouting about Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to passers-by; and at last he winds up on the porch of his only remaining friend in the world, Constance Harraway. He now learns, as a result of an emergency when she has to go to hsopital, that she is dying of leukemia. He has to sleep off his drunken stupor on a seat in the hospital corridor. After she is home again, Constance is talking to David one evening about her one regret in life, that she didn't have more sex. He offers and, having assured her it isn't out of pity, she accepts. He leaves in the morning but she is subsequently found dead --- naked, handcuffed behind her back, with her mouth taped over with gaffer tape, and suffocated by a plastic bag that is over her head and taped round the neck. A post-mortem reveals that she had swallowd the handcuff key. David Gale's semen is also found inside her. A video camera on a tripod --- on which no fingerprints were found --- has recorded the whole scene.

After the prison visit one afternoon, Bloom and Stemmons have to collect a large sum in US currency bills; they then return to their motel to find her door blocked open with a roll of gaffer tape, and a videotape cassette suspended by a string from the ceiling of her room, labelled with her name. They borrow a video player from the motel manager and are profoundly shocke to find that the tape has just a minute or two recorded, a shot of the naked, cuffed and suffocating Constance Hallaway on her kichen floor.

Bloom and Stemmons visit a sort of museum to the memory of Constance Harraway, looked after by Nico, a plump young woman with a goth appearance.

From time to time while driving between the motel and the prison, Bloom and Stemmons have noticed a lean figure of a youngish man in a stetson hat, apparently following or watching them. They discover who this man is: Dusty Wright, a secretive loner but a follower and admirer of Constance Harraway. Bloom delivers the shiny attaché case full of cash to the lawyer Belyeu's office, and spies Wright entering just as she is leaving.

Assuming that Gale is telling the truth when protesting his innocence of the rape and murder, there is speculation as to who did the murder and apparently framed him. Candidates include some mysterious group trying to discredit the abolitionist cause.

However, after the fourth and last interview with David Gale at the prison, at the end of which he takes his leave saying he'll be dead by the end of the next day, Bloom and Stemmons return to the "museum" with handcuffs and gaffer tape, and Bloom re-enacts the death scene using the handcuffs, the tape, and a plastic bag. Stemmons has to tear the bag open, afraid Bloom is actually suffocating herself. The outcome of the experiment, given what they know about her dedication to her cause and the fact she had only a short time to live anyway, is their conclusion that there was no murder: Constance Harraway committed suicide, deliberately intending to make it look like murder of her by Gale, because of his ruined reputation after the affair with the girl Berlin. She had willingly made love to Gale in the hours before killing herself, setting him up for the additional charge of rape.

They then realize that, having been given the brief tape, there must exist a full recording of the suicide, and that Harraway's purpose was almost certainly to have Gale exculpated at the last possible moment by production of the recording that must prove she committed suicide unaided. However, whoever was supposed to produce the tape has not done so. They realize that this must be Dusty Wright, and that he has an ageda of his own. Jealous of Gale's relationship with Harraway, he has not produced the full tape recording because if saving Gale at the last minute would make news as a momentous case against the death penalty, allowing Gale to die before revealing that he was innocent would make the case even more strongly.

At the last minute, they go to Wright's home and Bloom searches frantically for the full tape, while Stemmons keeps watch for any sign of Wright. She finds the tape, having to play it through and watch it to see that it is what she needs: after Hallaway dies, Dusty Wright appears in front of the camera, showing that he helped the woman in her plot against Gale There is then a frantic journey to the prison, to try to get there and have the tape seen before Gale is executed. The car breaks down some distance away and the final scenes are of Bloom frantically running along the street trying to reach the prison before the deadline. We see the ritual leading to the execution being followed. There are calls from the state Governor's office giving final go-ahead. Outside the prison, we see a large group of demonstrators from Death Watch, part of a large crowd including police officers.

Bloom reaches the crowd and makes her way through the throng only to hear an announcement from a prison official that Gale had died some minutes earlier.

Back at her desk at her employers, Bitsy Bloom receives a Fedex package containing the favourite soft toy of Gale's young son Jamie, left behind with the father when the son went abroad. Inside it is a video cassette with an additional segment at the end revealing that Gale was in the kitchen when Hallaway commited suicide. In this way Gale wanted to relieve the journalist from the guilt of not saving him.

Meanwhile Dusty Wright, very smartly dressed now, travels to Europe and delivers a large sum of money on dollar bills to the new residence of Sharon Gale. He rings the apartment doorbell and disappears, leaving the cash anonymously in that silvery metallic attaché case.

Something the Lord Made

Synopsis

Alfred Blalock (1899-1964), a cardiologist (therefore, self-confident to the point of arrogance), leaves Vanderbilt for Johns Hopkins taking with him his lab technician, Vivien Thomas (1910-1985). Thomas, an African-American without a college degree, is a gifted mechanic and tool-maker with hands splendidly adept at surgery. In 1941, Blalock and Thomas take on the challenge of blue babies and invent bypass surgery. After trials on dogs, their first patient is baby Eileen, sure to die without the surgery. In defiance of custom and Jim Crow, Blalock brings Thomas into the surgery to advise him, but when Life Magazine and kudos come, Thomas is excluded. Will he receive his due?

Tells the story of the extraordinary 34-year partnership which begins in Depression Era Nashville in 1930, when Blalock hires Thomas as an assistant in his Vanderbilt University lab, expecting him merely to perform janitorial work. But Thomas' remarkable manual dexterity and scientific acumen shatter Blalock's expectations, and Thomas rapidly becomes indispensable as a research partner to Blalock in his first daring forays into heart surgery. The film traces the groundbreaking work the two men undertake when they move in 1941 from Vanderbilt to Johns Hopkins, an institution where the only black employees are janitors and where Thomas must enter by the back door. Together, they boldly attack the devastating heart problem of Tetralogy of Fallot, also known as Blue Baby Syndrome, and in so doing they open the field of heart surgery. The film dramatizes their race to save dying Blue Babies against the background of a Jim Crow (Racial Segregation) America, illuminating the nuanced and complex relationship the two sustain. Thomas earns Blalock's unalloyed respect, with Blalock praising the results of Thomas' surgical skill as being "like something the Lord made", and insisting that Thomas coach him through the first Blue Baby surgery over the protests of Hopkins administrators.
 
RESENSI FILM
It's gratifying to know that I'm not the only one who was surprisingly moved by this story. I had known only a tiny part of the story before the movie: that a white surgeon and a black technician developed the process that could save "blue babies." That's a huge accomplishment, but only a portion of the story.

Alan Rickman does a splendid job portraying Dr. Blalock. There are a few moments when his southern accent slips and a little British comes through, but in terms of portrayal of the character, he is convincing. Blalock is ambitious, and in fact so focused on his professional and medical goals that sometimes he's clueless as to what others are going through to get him what he wants. He's also at turns arrogant and compassionate...exactly what one would have to be to do what he did. One thing the movie communicates very effectively is just how much of a revolution this surgery was: not merely operating on a baby heart, Dr. Blalock opened the gate to surgery on *any* human heart. Rickman doesn't overdo it, but he gets the character across.

Mos Def steals the show, however, in his subtle portrayal of Vivien Thomas. There's no grandstanding in this performance; he makes us believe that we know Thomas, and that to know him is to love him. He plays a man who had more character in his little finger than most people find in their whole lives, and he does it with zero ham. It isn't just that he gives an understated performance...he becomes this man who feels deeply even though he doesn't express it loudly. You see it in his eyes, in his pauses, in his voice. It's hard to describe, except to say that beneath the calm, quiet, even deferential exterior there is, undeniably, a whole person, a fully human, noble, wise, mature, gracious character.

A previous commentator asks if the presentation, near the end of the story, of an honorary degree was supposed to be an apotheosis of sorts. Perhaps. I suspect, however, that it isn't the conferring of a degree but the unveiling of the portrait, that actually vindicates Thomas and lifts him to his place in the medical pantheon of Johns-Hopkins' larger-than-life wonder-workers. At the end of the film, Vivien is sitting in the lobby, looking at his own portrait next to that of Blalock's when he's paged as "Dr. Thomas." He has to wipe the tears from his eyes to respond to the page. Maybe it's the degree and the portrait together.

The same commentator asked whether the film omitted mention of Thomas's eventual title. Actually, there's a scene immediately after their arrival in Baltimore in which the Director of Laboratories gives Vivien some money and tells him to bring coffee and a donut. At the end of the film, when Blalock calls Vivien's office, we see Vivien's title on the office door: Director of Laboratories. The irony is sweet.

This is a compelling, touching film, with wonderful performances all around

Daddy Day Care

Synopsys

Charlie, a busy working father, is laid off after the health division in his company was shut down. Desperate for money, he opens up a day care center with the help of two friends. As it became more popular, a nearby school's daycare became less populated, because Charlie's center, Daddy Day Care was much cheaper. Mrs. Harridan, the head mistress of that school, attempts to shut down Daddy Day Care, but fails. Charlie and one of his friends are offered a better job and they decide to take it. But not long after, Charlie soon realizes that the job isn't what he really wants to do. He returns to Daddy Day Care, only to learn that everybody left and went to the expensive school. He successfully convinces the children and their parents to come back, and Daddy Day Care becomes a raging success.

Summary

In the hilarious comedy Daddy Day Care, two fathers (Eddie Murphy, Jeff Garlin) lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon, the two dads open their own day care facility, "Daddy Day Care", and employ some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of caring for children. As "Daddy Day Care" starts to catch on, it launches them into a highly comedic rivalry with Chapman Academy's tough-as-nails director (Anjelica Huston) ...who has driven all previous competitors out of business.
Two men (Eddie Murphy and Jeff Garlin) get laid off in product development at a large food company and are forced to become stay-at-home fathers and take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy. They create a new day care facility called "Daddy Day Care" and have kids like: the smart-mouthed-but-became-polite Crispin (Shane Baumel), the really-smart Becca (Hailey Noelle Johnson), and The Flash/Tony (Jimmy Bennett). As "Daddy Day Care" starts to catch on, it launches them into a comedic rivalry with the Chapman Academy tough-as-nails director, Ms. Harridan (Anjelica Huston).
 
Goofs
• Continuity: When Charlie pulls up to the Academy for their appointment, he emerges from a car stopped parallel to the steps. In the next cut, the car is parked diagonally in relation to the steps.
• Continuity: During the puppet show, the girl with the glasses is sitting quite a way from the camera, but in the next shot, she's the closest person to the camera.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Phil is standing on the sofa, playing the guitar, the music keeps going when he's not strumming.
• Continuity: When Charlie and his son are sitting at the table having breakfast, Charlie puts his fist to the side of his face, and his son copies. In the shot of both of them, his son's hand isn't a complete fist, he still has his fingers pointing out, but in the next shot of just him, his hand is a complete fist.
• Continuity: When Charlie and Ben are at the table coloring, Ben's crayon changes from yellow to red and back again between shots.
• Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, the kid who is only supposed to speak in "Klingon" is talking to another kid on the steps when they are getting the mission statement, and also singing along with the songs.
• Continuity: When Phil and Marvin are being chased by the bees outside, Charlie and the kids are watching in the window and are in different windows in different shots.
• Continuity: Just before the puppet show, the Child Services investigator takes a cookie. When Charlie, Marvin and Phil ask for privacy to discuss the missing child Flash, the investigator is holding the cookie. The scene looks at the puppet show and then back to the investigator putting the cookie in his breast pocket. The scene moves back to the puppet show and immediately back to the investigator who now has the cookie back in his hand again.
• Continuity: When they are taking applications at the "lemonade stand", Crispin kicks Charlie's left ankle but when Charlie reaches down to rub his ankle he grabs his right.
• Continuity: When Charlie and Phil are wrestling dressed like vegetables, Charlie takes a chunk out of Phil's Carrot suit. In the next shot, the carrot suit to be undamaged.
• Continuity: When Ben is sitting down having cereal at the beginning the film he is sitting with both legs up on the chair. In the next shot both legs are dangling down off the chair.
• Continuity: During the lightsabre fight between Marvin and the kids Marvin grabs one of the lightsabres and reacts as if it burns him. In the wide shot Marvin grabs a green lightsabre, however in the close up it is now a blue lightsabre he is holding.
• Continuity: When Charlie notices Ben is using his notes as napkins, he takes them away leaving Ben no napkins. But then when Kim is talking to Charlie about the orientation, in the background, there is a napkin for Ben.
• Continuity: When the social service working is having Charlie sign the papers (that are cut up like dolls) he takes out his pen the first time he tell Charlie to sign, and right before he tells him again what to sign he takes out his pen again.
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Marvin, a supposedly devout Star Trek fan, says that a Star Trek memorabilia store had "a tricorder used by Ensign Riley in 'The Doomsday Machine'." This is a reference to Kevin Riley, who was a Lieutenant, not an Ensign. He also only appeared in two episodes of the first season of the original series Star Trek, "The Doomsday Machine" episode was produced in the second season of the show.
• Revealing mistakes: When the child inspector comes and is offered a cookie, Charlie comes in with the tray and oven gloves on implying that the tray is hot. But on several occasions the tray is resting against his chest, like it isn't burning him.

Lorenzo's Oil

Resensi Film
Lorenzo’s Oil adalah sebuah film yang dibuat tahun 2001 tentang perjuangan tanpa kenal lelah dan putus asa. Film ini diangkat dari kisah nyata Michaela dan Augusto Odone, immigrant asal Italia, yang anaknya divonis mengidap penyakit langka Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD).
Kisahnya berawal pada bulan Juli 1983 ketika keluarga Odone sedang berlibur di Afrika. Dilukiskan Lorenzo adalah seorang anak kecil berusia 5 tahun yang cerdas, energic dan senang bergaul. Beberapa bulan setelah kembali ke Washington DC, Lorenzo mulai menunjukkan tanda-tanda perubahan, diawali dengan perilakunya yang cenderung hiper active. Hasil test di rumah sakit oleh Dr. Judalon menunjukkan bahwa Lorenzo mengidap penyakit ALD yang tergolong langka. ALD adalah jenis penyakit degeneratif yang hanya diturunkan pada anak laki-laki dan memiliki tingkat fatalitas mendekati 100% dan biasanya penderita akan meninggal dunia dalamkurun waktu 24 bulan sejak didiagnosa. Saat itu dunia kedokteran belum menemukan terapi yang bisa menangani jenis penyakit tersebut. Beberapa ilmuwan yang dipelopori oleh professor Gus Nikolais melakukan percobaaan pembatasan asupan makanan lemak jenuh untuk mengurangi tumpukan lemak di otak yang merusak selubung otak (myelin), tetapi semua usaha tersebut gagal. Kondisi Lorenzo memburuk, dia kehilangan kemampuan berjalan, berbicara bahkan selalu tersedak oleh liurnya sendiri.
Karena menganggap bahwa mereka tidak mendapatkan dukungan sepenuhnya dari para dokter di rumah sakit, maka Augusto memutuskan untuk melakukan riset sendiri di bidang biochemistry dan neurology dan akhirnya memutuskan untuk melakukan percobaan pemberian asupan minyak zaitun (olive oil). Ternyata terapi ini berhasil mengurangi kadar lemak jenuh di tubuh Lorenzo sebanyak 50 %, tetapi tetap tidak bisa mengembalikan ke posisi normal. Augusto melanjutkan penelitiannya tentang Erucic Oil, yang sebenarnya berbahaya bagi kondisi jantung manusia dan belum ada penelitian resmi tentang penggunaan terapi ini. Keberanian Augusto membawa hasil dan terapi ini membuat kadar lemak jenuh dalam darah Lorenzo kembali pada kondisi normal. Atas keberhasilannya ini Augusto mendapatkan gelar kehormatan dokter.
Pada akhir film diceritakan bahwa sampai saat ini Lorenzo masih hidup dan sudah mulai bisa menggerakan anggota tubuhnya bahkan berkomunikasi menggunakan komputer.

Jamillah dan Sang Presiden

Resensi Film
Semalam saya dan beberapa rekan kerja di salon diundang oleh Ibu Raakhee Punjabi menghadiri pemutaran perdana film berjudul Jamila dan Sang Presiden di FX. Awalnya saya males untuk hadir karena “my body is not delicious” akibat jet lag dari Nigeria. Hanya karena alasan sosial kami memutuskan untuk hadir.

Tadinya saya pikir yang penting nongol sebentar, ramah-tamah, lalu ngeloyor pulang. Sesampainya di lt 7 FX, saya sedikit terhibur menyaksikan banyak pemandangan “bening-bening” para artis sinetron muda, yang namanya ndak saya kenal. Yang jelas bening dan membuat mata ngantuk saya rodho terbuka. Beberapa tokoh seperti mantan gubernur DKI bang Suti, pimred Tempo Fiki Jupri dan beberapa orang lainnya juga tampak hadir. Setelah santap malam dan seteguk dua teguk red wine, saya mencoba bercakap dengan beberapa tamu undangan yang laen. Mendengar percakapan mbak Christine Hakim, sebagai salah seorang pemeran utama dalam film tersebut, dalam menjawab beberapa pertanyaan media, saya jadi penasaran, seperti apa sih film yang judulnya radha aneh di telinga saya. Apa ada kaitannya dengan carut-marutnya pemilu legislatif dan hiruk-pikuknya koalisi menjelang pemilihan presiden. Apalagi waktu saya tahu bahwa sutradaranya adalah mbak Ratna Sarumpaet dan pemain lainnya adalah Ria Irawan. Keduanya adalah orang-orang teater yang saya kagumi. Si pemeran utama tokoh Jamilah adalah Atika Hasiholan, yang merupakan anak dari Ratna sendiri, hadir juga di situ dan “bening”. He.. Akhirnya kami memutuskan untuk bertahan dan menonton film tersebut. Saya terkejut mengikuti alur cerita film yang menggunakan konsep narasi flash back menceritakan perjalanan hidup seorang pelacur bernama Jamila. Belum pernah Multivision Plus membuat film layar lebar yang tergolong cukup berat dan berani. Film ini diangkat dari novel Pelacur dan sang Presiden, dan ditampilkan dalam format teater mengangkat masalah human trafficking yang menjadi persoalan moral bagi Indonesia. Film ini mengandung pesan moral bagi para anggota legislatif terpilih dan calon presiden terpilih agar tidak mengabaikan masalah human trafficking di Indonesia yang semuanya bermuara pada kemiskinan. Juga sindiran bagi para tokoh yang sering mempolitisir agama atas nama “mempertahankan moral”. Film ini layak untuk ditonton. Salut buat Ibu Raakhee dan Multivision Plus.