it's 20 past 3. the tv was already on. i spend a few minute channel surfing. tying to see what's on. what can grasp my interest on this dull Sunday evening. nothing interest me. i need to go out.
i take a bath. put on a something clean switch off the tv and i'm out.
i start the engine and pull out in reverse... in the back of my mind, i keep trying to think where i'm heading...
i reach the traffic light beside the kamunting mosque and at that moment i decide to go to ipoh. it has been a while since i last spend my time at the novel hut.
i've been on the road for 15 minute now and i've past pekan simpang and then my phone start to ring.
it's my mum.
me: assalamualaikum mak...
my mum: ha...walaikumsalam...
me: ye mak.
my mum: buka kat rumah hari ni ye. mak masak bihun goreng.
me: ok.
my mum: dgn keropok ikan.
me:keropok ikan...ok.
my mum: ok...assalamualaikum.
me: waalaikum salam.
i can't go to ipoh now. i'll miss buka posa if i go.
it's 5 past 4. it's too early to go home. so i decide to go watch movie.
i turn back and headed back to town. the last time i check, public enemies is still showing. yeah. i'll watch that.
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the car park is full. it takes me 15 min to find a parking space. it's 4.40 when i reach the cinema. the show start at 4.30. the counter for the movie still open. i buy the ticket and a run all the way to the room 1.
the movie already started and from the bright light on the screen i can see there's about 10 people in the room. i take seat on the last row, silent my phone and start focusing.
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the story is about the rise and fall of John Dillinger. his persona, his determinition, his passion to be whoever, whatever he want to be and foremost, a free man. doing whatever he want to elude the reality that he is a wanted man. the most wanted man in america. public enemy no.1.
with a strong storyline and a little off from the real fact (Pretty Boy Floyd kill after Dillinger shot down while exiting Chicago's Biograph Theater) johhny deep, marion cotillard, christian bale manage to bring a mediocre depiction of what really happen.
some says, (film reviews/critics) the romantic projection of his love interest, billie frechette (the lack of chemistry between johhny and marion) has set this film to be just another story of love and lost. revenge and redemption.
i believe that is not what the director and the writer trying to say. dillinger definition of love is whatever on his term. he takes because he believe he can take it. he can have it. he do whatever he think he need to do to have it. he want her and he say it. he act on it. he believe that he need to be in control of everything that he want and need. while she falls under a strong persuasion and the idea of a powerful and strong man who was there to take care of her. there is no strong or typical romantic projection about love that the film try to emphasized. he stay in chicago and try to take her back simply because he can't let people (people who try to brake him) takes somethings that is his.
the film does not register any sparks that need to make it spectacular. maybe because i was hungry or maybe it's the fact that 10 minute before the movie end, the cinema staff interrupt me by asking about my seat. i was seating in the couple seats. (that's is RM11 seats...i only pay for RM10 seat). i tell them to buzz off and stop bothering me and after the movie end, i just walk out from the room (i can hear them calling but i just continue walking...he he)
it's 5 after 7. i need to go home. bihun goreng and keropok ikan is waiting for me.
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