I was collapsed once I got home yesterday. The wedding thing drained most of our energies and the high heels made my feet ached. But after 2-3 hours nap, my body was refreshed and I was ready to hit the town. So I revved my car's engine and wheeled down to Pondok Indah to meet Cheryl and Kireina.

We met at De Hooi, a very cozy bar in the neighborhood, and the girls were coming with Rei, Cheryl's friend. And as the night was getting longer, more people joined us, such as Boy (Ara's friend), and more of Rei's friends: Isdu, Aris, and a couple whose names I forgot. It was another fun night with more new faces to me.


Today I woke up a little too late but made it to the church by 10.30 a.m. with Aunt Dewi. After that I met my aunt's friends for a while, then sped up to Setiabudi One to meet Benedict (Andri's friend) and watched Catatan Harian Si Boy at 2 p.m., a thread to the old movies package by bringing up new casts and fresher ideas.

I love the way Putrama Tuta brought up the movie. The combination of action and drama, about cars, man-to-man rivalry, friendship and love. It's like watching Indonesian movie of Fast & Furious (to mention the drifts and the workshop), and the satisfaction was more or less equal (to be compared with other Indonesian movies).

The story is good, the action looked real, the casts are combination of old faces of original characters and totally new ones (which is very much a plus point, remembering the recent Indonesian movies are usually crowded by few particular actors that made them boring!) and it's far far away from being corny.

5 whys I love this movie:

1. They combined friendship, love, hope, trust and commitment/responsibility theme in a nicely wrapped package.
2. This contains action with car drifting and muscle fight, and it all felt real with maximum effort (the Porsche being smashed, the man-on-man fights..).
3. The actors are not the usual ones such as Tora Sudiro or Lukman Sardi (seemed like they existed in all other high-quality Indonesian movies). The casts here acted naturally and totally.
4. Many great lines we can quote in such perfect moments and many life lesson we can learn from the movie ("to finish what they have started", for example).
5. The movie is delivered lightly with enough drama and wit, and nothing was exaggerated. Just perfect.

I highly praise this one, and gonna watch this over and over again as often as I can. Lol. But before watching this, I suggest you to read this first, for a reminder of the old movie series. Enjoy the movie then!