Review Of The Films Of Devil's Followers, Horrors Outside The Nadar Whose Sadis 'Gets Out'

Devil's Followers Front (Falcon Black)

JAKARTA - The Devil's Followers Film will hit theaters starting February 16. This second film from Falcon Black is by Rako Prijanto. Starring Mawar de Jongh, Hanggini, and Sara Fajira, this film has passed the censorship for the 21+ category.

As it is rare for Indonesian films to pass the 21+ censorship, Devil's Followers followers are also films that are rarely present in Indonesia. Devil's Followers' followers tells the story of Sumi (Mawar de Jongh) who lives alone taking care of her sick father.

The scene opens with his father's feet and must be amputated so as not to rot. You say harsh words and insults, until the scene of cutting your feet opens the sadistic appearance of this film. Blood flows as if it was the initial warning of this film for only 21 years and over.

To meet the needs of life, Sumi sells sugar from human meat in the village. His dream is to collect money from selling sugar for the recovery of his father. But that dream certainly is not easy to live with.

Gradually, Sumi showed her sadness by cutting her neck, tearing through the contents of her human stomach, skinning the humans she killed. Of course, 'dancing' blood freely in this film. Mawar's acting deserves thumbs up for keeping the mystery consistently.

When Sari (Hanggini) decided to return to being a witchcraft shaman after her sister was murdered, the sadness of this film was even more added. Sari is determined to take revenge because her sister's body was missing from the cemetery.

The women who are allied with the devil, become evil more than demons that cannot touch humans. Devils can only influence the mind, while Sumi and Sari no longer have a clear mind to achieve their goals.

However, with the 1950 setting, there was a fatal error made by the production team by presenting a cooling device in this film. The distraction that appeared from the start of the scene was quite disturbing the logic of the story where all night lighting only used kerosene lights but the freezer had appeared with bright white light when it opened. Where did the electricity come from?

The logic that is ignored is not only the freezer, but how social life is not disturbed by targist and sadistic events in the film. As if everything was fine after the massacre occurred.

The good news is that the sadistic scenes that appear in this film seem to want to satisfy the dark side of the audience. Based on The Shadow Self theory, everyone has a dark shadow from the human personality who has the most primitive instincts to survive by killing.

This dark side manifests itself in our fear, frustration, and insecurity when there emerges a confrontation between our identification with certain values that have been forced by culture. This is an aspect we consider negative from the human personality that is adjacent to conscience and that is not lost, remains hidden and lurks most of the time.

If you look at this theory, the audience will unconsciously enjoy the dark side itself. Satisfaction watching sadness is a manifestation of feelings that are always suppressed and cannot be raised due to community norms. Rako managed to satisfy the audience in this case.