The best Iwa K’s movies

The film weaves around four stories all happening in metropolitan, dehumanizing Jakarta. In fact that is what it is about, the quality of meaninglessness of living in a place that turns people into zombies. In a place where meaning must be invented, these kids turn into the only place, the only culture they see worth tuning into: television and movies. Thus they slowly degenerate into the abysmal reinterpretation in a sort of sickening anti-hero, anti-social statements that goes absurdly a wrong turn.

Three bestfriends, Dey (Derry Neo), Ba’on (G-voiz) and Sabun (Dallas Pratama) live in a marginalised area in Jakarta where there harbors no certainty, safety and much less harmony. Dey is fearless. Ba’on is unable to speak because his tongue is cut. Sabun is a pious young man. Dey and Ba’on sell marijuana produced by Prof (Norman Akyuwen) while Sabun sells pirated DVDs without recognizing that his merchandise are illegal. One day Ba’on helps Mel (Tya Arifin) who almost gets robbed. Incidentally for a long time he has been admiring her, a tv star-cum-model. But Mel’s encounter with Ba’on and friends entails some serious consequences because the robber has another, more dangerous goal.