10.28.09
Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
10.26.09
A Very Stupid Story to Tell
There’s a man who’s basically a goddammned jerk, fukcer, someone who’s nothing but a person who’s so fond of making his own reality. Everytime he gets a girlfriend beside him, he doesn’t want to love her, he just wanna fuck with her. That’s all. On the other hand, there’s a woman who’s basically innocent but pretending to be smart and knowing everything in this world, someone who has high dreams and hopes for her own life but actually her life is just so-so without anything to be proud of. Everytime she falls in love, she just wanna know that she’s quite precious for someone and is worthy enough to live this life because the very fact about her is there’s no one loves her.
The man is living in the west, and the woman is in the east. They never know each other, they never even meet in a certain place. The man knows the woman only from a saved picture on a fucking abandoned laptop, and the woman knows the man only from TV since he’s quite famous out there. One day, out of the logic ever exists in the world, they dream the same thing at the same time. They dream about having sex together, three times. The first sex in their dream is so amazing that they can get such a huge orgasm. The second dream isn’t so satisfying, even though there the man can see the woman fully naked. The third sex is quite romantic, happens in a fully white place and they do it on a white couch.
Months after those dreams, they find themselves are connected to each other. The woman can strongly feel what the man feel and somehow be disturbed by it, the man can also feel the woman’s feeling but he strongly denies it because he thinks it’s just illogical. Time after time, days go by, both of them start to think about their own feelings. The woman starts to want the man beside her, and the man, previously only wanting of having sex in the real life with the woman, starts to think that the woman means a lot for him. But then, the woman comes to question her true feeling on him, and the man only wants to deny his feeling on her because for him, it’s just a silly joke he has ever made.
And yeah, it’s just a very stupid story to tell since there’s no such a thing like that will end up in this world. The story will go nowhere because the man keeps creating his own reality and the woman has been so tired of swallowing bitter pills in her life. It just won’t go anywhere…anywhere but in the middle of nothing. It’s only a fake thing emerge in another kind of fantasy. It’s as fake as any imagination. It’s merely a Vanilla Sky. It’s like living a lie.
It’s fake but very much interesting that I could’ve made so much money by throwing this thing up to one of those Hollywood studios to maka it a movie. I could’ve been rich for this. But no, I can only write this shit down here.
10.19.09
Bukan Tontonan Anak2

Seriously, bagi yg nganggep kalo Spongebob Squarepants itu adalah tontonan anak2, berarti mereka salah besar. Kartun sih iya, tapi isi dari cerita Spongebob sendiri cuma bisa dimengerti sama anak di atas ABG, itupun kalo mereka bener2 mudeng jalan ceritanya.
Hampir semua sisi cerita dari kartun ini sebenernya bercerita tentang kehidupan dan budaya Amerika yg sesungguhnya. Bahkan tokoh2nya mewakili semua jenis manusia yg hidup di The Promise Land itu. Ceritanya selalu tentang persaingan bisnis di mana Mr. Crap sangat ambisius ngumpulin uang dan rela ngelakuin apapun supaya bisa numpuk uang segunung. Si plankton pun juga menghalalkan segala cara supaya bisa memajukan usahanya dan menyaingi teman lamanya sendiri yg sebenernya adalah Mr. Crap.
Spongebob, tokoh utama di kartun ini lebih merupakan representasi orang2 Amerika yg ulet dan suka bekerja keras demi masa depan cerah dan dedikasi tinggi. Squidword lebih merepresentasikan sosok orang Amerika yg individualistis dan egois, sedangkan Patrick lebih ke orang yg cueknya setengah mati dan ga pedulian sama sekali, bahkan sama temennya sendiri. Kadang orang2 salah tangkep dan nganggep kalo Patrick itu bodoh, tapi karena ketidakinginannya dia buat tahu itulah yg bikin dia keliatan bodoh. Karakter Sandy lebih menarik karena dia merupakan representasi cewek independen jaman sekarang yg pinter dan vokal, tapi ya itu, bikini yg selalu dia pake juga merepresentasikan posfeminisme di Amerika sekarang ini di mana ada anggapan kalo ‘girls can be smart and powerful, but they still must be sexy and pretty’.
Yah, pokoknya ini bukan tontonan anak2 lah… selain ceritanya yg dewasa banget dan karakter2nya yg bisa dibilang ga mendidik (untuk ukuran masyarakat kita), adegan2nya juga terlalu keras dan kasar buat anak2. Bahkan label bimbingan orang tua pun agak2 ga cocok kalo menurutku. Ortu yg ga pinter bakalan susah ngejelasin segala sesuatu yg ada di kartun ini.
10.12.09
Smart People

Wah, akhirnya bisa juga nonton ni film walo cuma dari TV swasta. Tapi yah, ga pa-pa, yg penting akhirnya aku bisa nonton karena udah penasaran banget sejak dulu.
Ceritanya bisa dibilang agak biasa, di mana orang2 pintar hidup dengan dunia mereka sendiri dan menganggap bahwa diri mereka lah yg paling benar. Jadi orang pintar memang menyenangkan di satu sisi karena bisa banyak tahu, punya pengetahuan yg luas dan kadang bisa mendapatkan hak2 istimewa tertentu. Jadi orang pintar juga bisa membuat orang2 terlihat istimewa karena isi otak mereka. Tapi ga semua orang pintar bisa hidup bahagia, karena biasanya mereka membatasi hidup mereka sendiri.
Prof. Wetherhold bertemu kembali dengan mantan mahasiswanya dulu dan akhirnya jatuh cinta. Kencan pertama bisa dibilang aneh kalau tidak mau dibilang gagal. Hubungan mereka pun tidak berjalan lancar karena ketidakpekaan profesor tersebut terhadap perasaan pacar barunya itu (setelah dia menduda). Hubungan sang profesor dengan kedua anaknya pun tidak begitu baik. Anak pertama menganggapnya tidak peduli pada si anak sama sekali, dan anak kedua memang lebih sependapat dan lebih dekat dengannya, tapi toh pada akhirnya crash juga masalah hubungan sang profesor dengan pacar barunya alias mantan mahasiswanya.
Inti ceritanya bagus, tapi bisa dibilang ga perlu diomongin lagi di film karena sudah banyak film yg membahas tema semacam ini (walo ga pasaran). Tapi aku salut sama penggarapannya yg sederhana dan akting para pemainnya. Terutama aktor yg memerankan sang profesor dan anak keduanya yg pernah main di film Juno.


