Review Of Who He Is: Garin Nugroho's Love Letter For Indonesian Pop Culture

Director Garin Nugroho presents his latest film, Siapa Dia, which will air starting Thursday, August 28. This film is his new effort to present a musical-themed film by telling the history of Indonesian films.

It was canceled, this film produced by Fabis Entertainment finally got a release date at the end of August which was still related to the celebration of Indonesian Independence.

This film also stars Nicholas Saputra as the main character and Amanda Rawles, Widi Mulia, Monita Tahalea, Ariel Tatum, Happy Salma, Joanna Alexandra, Dira Sugandi, Cindy Nirmala, Gisella Anastasia, Morgan Oey, and others.

The film Siapa Dia tells the story of Layar (Nicholas Saputra), a director who wants to make his latest film. He with his ambition, wants to find inspiration and start recruiting Rintik (Amanda Rawles). Rintik helps Screen find inspiration.

The screen found a brown box belonging to his great man and began to open the box. He saw many archives related to Indonesian cinema and began to study it.

He also underwent a transition from year to year introducing the audience to the history of Indonesian film and the struggle to meet his audience.

Through the film Siapa Dia, Nicholas Saputra is transformed into various characters who greet the audience. As the single main character, he invited the reflection of the audience to dive into the Indonesian film industry from year to year.

What started with the search for the creative process developed into a beautiful journey when the Screen visited the colonial era, independence to the New Order.

At first, this film started in a hurry, maybe because of the distribution of five stories that will explain in detail about the journey of the film. However, the division of the round makes it easy for viewers to follow the storyline.

Several songs were also performed by Nicholas Saputra along with several other players who performed songs in the 80s.

The storyline itself is more of a flat narrative so there is no twist explosion or something surprising.

There are many things that the director tries to give to talk about cinema, identity to romance, but because the effort to match it ends in a flat end.

In the end, the film Siapa Dia presents information that can be enjoyed in different forms. The music serves to the interaction of the characters attract attention to look forward to the journey of the Screen to what end.

The film 'Who's He Can Be Watched In Indonesian cinemas Starting Thursday, August 28.