Sepet

I love Sepet! I watched it last night and my god, I love it for the unsubtlety of it all! I love the fact that it's such a Malaysian movie, that it is not a Malay, Chinese, Indian movie but it's just a Malaysian movie! We should all be proud of Yasmin Ahmad. She's amazing. I love the fact that it sheds light onto taboo subjects, that it allows for a glimpse into a Malaysian life. My god, something we can ca,, Malaysian without adding all those race tag ons. Wow. It feels great to have something so true to us. At last, I feel like we have something to shout about. World, this is what Malaysia is all about. We are not Chinese, Malays, Singaporeans or Indians or Lain-lain, we are Malaysians and don't you forget it! *GRIN*

Yes, and the part where Orked's mom and aunt talk about her getting 5 A's and getting a scholarship and Jason getting 7 A's with no offer in sight. That was good.

It's about time someone addressed the blatant unfairness that the Government has foisted on us non-Bumiputeras. We are Malaysians but we are treated like second-class citizens. We study hard and we get good grades and yet we find it hard to get into local universities? I had school friends who failed a few subjects in their SPM and yet they were offered scholarships and they are now doctors!!! And that is why we don't ever go to government hospitals!

Why is it that an outsider say an Indonesian can come in here, do all sorts of bad things, marry a Malay here and he's in and treated like the Prince of the Land??? All just because he is Muslim that's what. It doesn't matter that he was not born on this land as all of us are. If they want to talk about Bumiputeras (Prince of the Land) and the right afforded to those who are bumiputeras then non-muslims should be allowed such privileges too as we have been here longer than half of the malays here! I say down with this bullshit Bumiputeras status, down with the government's plan to push lazy people onto a pedestal they clearly have no right to and down with this the discounts that all bumiputeras get when buying house or land! It is just not fair. Why are we non-muslims paying through our nose for a false citizenship? That is why we have a brain-drain problem here. Non-Malays pay exorbitant prices for education overseas because our own government doesn't see fit to grant them with scholarships and help when they need it. Why should they come back here and serve the community and government that abandoned them when they needed help? We cannot build a nation that is lopsided and now it's so lopsided that I'm surprised that the heavier side hasn't toppled the entire balance beam and throw us all into hell. Coz we are all too polite that's why. Coz we are all afraid to rock the boat. Coz we are more like Indonesia than we like to think that's why. The corrupt officials and the makan-duit enforcers that we have. Pfftt. All of it is crap. Doesn't matter than we have the Petronas Twin Towers, that we have KLIA and the Sepang Circuit, all shiny wax covering a rotten apple.

I hope that this film can open a lot of prejudiced eyes and maybe one day, all of us can truly be proud to call ourselves Malaysian. At this moment, I'm glad Sepet was made and has triumphed in the media. What else can this amazing film do???