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Columbus is an aesthetically cinematic experience. A story with a masterful approach in a subtle, calm like its making us for a moment to be meditating. Profoundly not in a complete way because its audience have to complete its piece by exploring, and looking further like solving the riddle that words can’t express it, but emotion can.

This is his directorial debut, Kogonada creates a wonderful, alive and true art. It resonates its story through a divine cinematography, seeing every modern architecture in Columbus that is not just stand as it just as a functional. But how this thing has a soul for one who can see and knowing it.

This film brings about family sacrifices toward dream, love, even when you are in the moment, where we not understand why or we refuse to acknowledge it. It’s a story that feels personal but universally related. It’s a critique of critique that testing its audience to see, understand, and appreciate it.

Some of my interpretation comes from its profound narrative and no doubt, the characters has become a tour guide of life in this film. That interpretation is not enough to represent everything that appear in film. Seeing the character moving one place to another, looking their life, looking the character sharing story one to another and done. It’s not that, but it invites you to explore, to make you actively sense and realize that life is not a tutorial and it’s already start from its early existence.

John Cho has a consistency performance. It’s great to see him in this film. Also when it interact to another character by Haley Lu Richardson that brings the character alive as a guider. Every exposure of their emotion is detail. Seeing them traveling from one place to another, interact and trying to understand one another even tho they really don’t understand or handle well of their each problem.

From beginning to the end, with the total shot, it assure you that you are an observer to the film. With the color grading that feels natural and the shot like a painting. The approach is precise and it clearly that the aspect of the film is inspired from Tokyo Story. With subtle tone creates a contemplating experience as we traveled along to the object of the story that beautifully immerse. 

The film makes me more believe in cinema, where it really can transcend a vision that amazing to feel it. Kogonada gave me something that I will never forget. Through this friendship melancholy, I found no flaw and if it was there, there’s always reason behind it.

To be true, since I watch this for the first time (now already three times, probably gonna more) it make me speechless. Sometimes there’s a moment where you can’t use words, or probably just make it a key.

It’s not for everyone, of course. It’s sounds boring, artsy, there’s nothing interesting. It’s up to you, this is just my love letter to the film. It’s simple, just about a human story in a true art. I really thankful to Kogonoda to create this such a beautiful cinematic experience, it’s calming, and your film will stuck in my mind always and ever be.

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Lately I've been looking for films that may be missed from radar, and I found this, and blew my mind. Sylvio has the simplicity of telling the story of self-discovery in a unique way, fresh, and pretty absurd. It’s underrated that this film deliver its story with quirky, comical and so indie but no doubt, affectionate.

With Kickstarter, about Sylvio, a gorilla who stuck in working life as a debt collector and always wants to express himself through puppet shows that highlight the moment of silence, though he being mute all the time. Then, accidently famous on TV, and having an event 'What's the Ape gonna break?' something bothered his feeling, on his now achievements that affect his life.

From here, Sylvio lead into his quiet and cold life. But slowly, it transitions into a funny warm moment by using comical quirky humor and little absurd. It’s interesting to know that this story leads to something completely unknown and just flowing like a water. The formula is already commonplace, but in this film, the formula is not wasted with the concept and a goal that this movie wants to achieve. Reaching for the self-questioning moment, "Is it really you?" which each of us has ever felt in that situation.

It’s inventive, and not just echoing about self-discovery, but about dreams, self-expression, and a little touch about humanism and entertainment. As if, it proves that this film has a depth on the material. Moreover, surreal moments are also used. No doubt too, the character Sylvio has a very precise depth.

Forget the minor problem that exist, this story honestly wrapped in unique, fresh. It delivers the story slowly from emptiness, then the absurdity that become enjoyable and fun. But that sense will be broken when it goes to the final round, the third-act where all transitioned to emotional and touching. Utilizing the last moment in closing the story with a slick and full of spirit in life.

Different experience and underrated. Well, some point seems like a simplistic decision, but I thought it’s kind of a reasonable. It's worth watching and definitely going into my list of underrated movies of 2017 soon. Please do not expect nothing on this, because the movie itself does not expect anything from you except you have a pure intention to explore this story not just enjoying what it has. So, "Are you in?" 

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Akhir-akhir ini aku banyak nyari film-film yang mungkin saja terlewatkan oleh radar, and I found this, and blew my mind. Sylvio punya kesederhanaan dalam menceritakan pencarian jati diri dalam kemasan unik, fresh, dan absurd. Saking underrated dan terlewat dari radar, film ini memainkan unsur kikuk dan rada komikalnya dengan smooth dan so indie.

Bermodalkan dari hasil galangan dana Kickstarter, cerita yang ditawarkan cukup sederhana namun begitu terasa saat selesai menontonnya. Sylvio, seorang gorilla yang dulunya kerja di bagian penagihan hutang, menemukan dirinya terkenal saat tak sengaja masuk ke acara televisi dan mengira, dia bintang tamu yang diundang buat juggling. Padahal niatnya mau nagih hutang orang itu. Terkenal saat dirinya dengan konyol memecahkan properti yang mesti dia juggling. Hingga akhirnya, acara What’s The Ape, Gonna Break menggaungkan namanya, tapi sesuatu yang mengganjal yang Sylvio rasakan.


Bukan tipikal cerita self-discovery biasa dan diselipkannya sequence surreal, film ini punya approach yang menarik. It’s not just about self-discovery bila approach yang digunakan demikian, banyak hal yang lain dikupas, mengungkit soal humanis dan tayangan hiburan.

What I really admire sebenarnya ialah, bagaimana kisah yang udah dikemas dengan unik, fresh, dibangun dengan awkward hingga enjoyable dan absurd yang ga ketinggalan, hal itu berubah 180 derajat menjadi babak yang di luar ekspetasi dan sungguh emosional. Babak itulah yang buat aku berdecak kagum, merinding, dan begitu menyentuh.

Benar-benar punya experience yang berbeda dan underrated. Well, terlebih film ini absurd, walau ga terlalu banget (bagi yang udah biasa), tapi trust me, setiap menit akan terbiasa dan semakin get along dengan Sylvio. It’s worth watch and definitely going into my list of underrated films of 2017 soon. Please don’t expect nothing on this, karena filmnya sendiri tak mengharapkan ekspetasi apa-apa dari penontonnya kecuali bagi yang benar-benar melibatkan jiwanya untuk benar-benar menyelami kisah satu ini. So, “Are you in?”

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