16 Puasa by Mamat Khalid
BRO551
– BROADCAST CRITIQUE
INDIVIDUAL
ASSIGNMENT – CULTURE & ETHNICITY (GENRE)
16 PUASA BY MAMAT
KHALID
PREPARED
BY: SITI NUR AISHAH BINTI RAMLI
STUDENT
ID: 2018403208
GROUP:
N5MC243S4C
PREPARED
FOR: MADAM NURUL AISHAH AB RAMAN
INTRODUCTION
Broadcast can be simply defined as the transmission of
a programme or any information via radio or television. For instance, any
announcement was broadcast live or to be simpler, a radio or television
programme or transmission. While that, generally, to broadcast is to cast or
throw forth something in all directions at the same time and a radio or
television broadcast is a program that is transmitted over airwaves for public
reception by anyone with a receiver tuned to the right signal channel.
Therefore, for critique, it can be simply defined as a detailed analysis and
assessment of something, especially a literary, philosophical, or political
theory. Moreover, critique is a somewhat formal word that typically refers
to a careful judgment in which someone gives an opinion
about something. Review can refer to an essay analyzing a literary or
artistic work but can also sometimes imply a more casual or personal
opinion. While that, film critic is a person who writes or publishes
a review of a film from either an artistic or entertainment
point of view. Film critic does the analysis and evaluation of films where the
person who critic may do academic criticism that is informed by film theory and
published in journals.
For
movie titled “16 Puasa” is a Malay film that portrayed Malay people always skip
fasting during fasting month or in Islam known as the month of Ramadhan where
Muslims are required to fast for 30 days. We can clearly see their agendas and
excuses that they always created just to escape themselves from fasting. This
film was directed by Malaysian famous film director known as Mamat Khalid that
and produced by Aminuddin Hanafiah and Azrin Ahmad Kadri. this film was
launched in 2017 and it is the continuity of the film “15 Puasa” that has been
starring by Adlin Aman Ramlie and it started its premiere aired on Astro First
Exclusive on 8th June 2017. This film also its sequel known as “17
Puasa” that has been aired on 22nd of May 2019 last year.
CONTENT
The film “16 Puasa” is a hybrid genre which is comedy
and drama under telefilm format that has been written and directed by Mamat
Khalid that has been starring Sabri Yunus, Aziz M. Osman, Bell Ngasri Rab
khalid and Man Kadir as the main characters in that particular movie or film.
Moreover, this film is produced by Aminuddin Hanafiah and Azrin Ahmad kadri
under the production house known as Vision Studio Sdn. Bhd. and the duration of
this film is 86 minutes and full of moral values that the audience can take and
learn from it. This film apprises of the particular group of villagers who
always skip from fasting in the month of Ramadhan and cunningly lied and hide
their activities from their respective families. They always break their fast
after 10 in the morning usually in the hideous bushes or besides that river
where this group of villagers always spending time together or in other words
break their fast together and from there, they became close to each other. Each
people member have their turn to get the foods regardless of buying it at any
open stalls or restaurant or cooked from home and the total of the members of
the group six of them and all of them are already married. After 16 days of
their illegal activities after 10 in the morning, they has been seized by the
head of the village and religious committee by the river where they always
break their fast together and will brought to the police station by using
“kereta jenazah (corpse vehicle) and while on the way to the police station,
the vehicle has stopped by the bazaar Ramadhan and they suddenly saw their wife
and planning to escape and repent from what they did.
Next,
in term of theme and style, the theme and style that has been portrayed in this
film is irony, parody, satire, and realism that showed what kind of Malays’ behaviors
when comes to fasting time. In term of the music that the filmmaker used in
this film is more to
Even
though the main genre is comedy and drama, it is also can be classify this
movie under cultural and ethnicity where it portrayed Malay people and their
typically culture in this film. We can instead
clearly see that this movie has its own important message that it trying to deliver
to the audiences. For instance, there are many scene in that film showed the
husband lied to their wife and the people that taught us to be honest in
everything we do because at the end of the day, everything that we lied about
will be exposed and we will get more embarrass.
This movie called “16 Puasa” (2017)
is directed and produced by Malaysian director known as Mamat Khalid.
Basically, this movie is under the comedy genre and it also can be classified
as the film that discussed regarding cultural and ethnicity. The story tells us
that how Malaysian always creates excuses just to escape themselves from fasting
in the month of Ramadhan. Basically, it is well known or commonly known that
when the person is a “Malay race” and the religion will be Islam and it is also
taught that Islam is not a religion that burden its followers or worshippers
and when it comes to fasting in the month of Ramadhan, all Muslims are
compulsory to fast but whoever are not capable of fasting will be excused but
in certain particular characteristics. Eventually, in this movie, it portrayed
a Malay people commonly in the village area are regardless of age, they will
break their fast usually in the late morning or afternoon and it basically
became Malays “culture”. Some of them are could lied to their family members
saying that they really fasting but actually are not and from this situation, there
are several moral values that we can learn. For instance, we as a human being,
we should be kind towards other and always speak the truth because by speaking
the truth, it really measured us or showed us what kind of person we are and
speaking the truth can makes people believe and have no doubts in our good
self. Next, we must obey what religion taught us where when it comes to the
month of Ramadhan, Muslims are compulsory to fasting to whom are capable
mentally and physically. The last value that we can learn is helping each other
out where even though in this movie showed that they are helping each other to
gets the food for their bad activities, but it taught us to help each other
regardless of age or anything if we are in a needy situations.
In addition, there one scene in the
movie where it showed when it comes to the time this group of villagers are
does not fasting to break their fast tgether as usual, the turn for Kudha to
get the foods, all Malays food stalls or restaurants are closed and only
Chinese restaurants are remain open, Kudha has no choice but bought foods (“mee
kari”) for them. Kudha is a slow learner and always follow what other people
said even though it is obviously wrong, so he did not concern whether the foods
are “halal” or not. After he brought the foods for them, they noticed that
meats in the “mee kari” tasted weird they never taste that kind of meat before.
One of them asked Kudha where he got the “mee kari” and Kudha replied that he
get those from this Chinese restaurants known as “Kedai Ah Hok”. Right after
Kudha said that, all of them spitted out the food that they ate because they
discovered that they have been eating pork in the “mee kari”. After that, the
village committee caught them, and they repent and will not cheat for coming
fasting.
Even though this situation is
commonly happening in Malays society, we should change this attitude which
might give a negative impact towards the society itself. People will be judging
and stereotypes towards Malays people because of this including towards Islam
as the holy religion. From the movie, as the elderly, men and as the head of
the families, they should show a good example towards the family and the
society.
Speaking of the characterization, the
actors in “16 Puasa” has played their respective characters excellently where
they bought their characters given as the villagers who skipped fasting in the
month of Ramadhan really good and makes people who watched the film feel angry
for what they are doing. Next, in term of type of shots in this movie, the most
common shot that we can clearly see is long shot, medium shot, close-up shot
and pan shot.
Regarding the Northrop Frye theory,
where he has stated that in the four season which is winter, summer, spring,
and autumn, it has its own genre and scenes that should happened in films. For
instance, usually in spring, it usually tells us about the love stories while
in winter, it usually tells us about sad and tragedies
CONCLUSION
The film “16 Puasa” might be boring to certain people
who does not like the kind of films that portrayed people who lived in the
village and away form cities areas. Because in this film, it clearly showed how
usually village people think and their lifestyles and most of them lived in a
moderate situation and some of them are even unemployed.
As
the world has reach the year of 2020 where it can be considered as in the
modern world, we should throw away all the myths and narrow-minded thoughts in
our won good self. We should always learn from the past and improve ourselves
in the future and learn as many good values and practice it in our lives. We
should protect our dignity, good name of our culture and ethnicity by doing a
good things because we are the one who carried the responsibilities in carrying
the three things that has been stated.
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