Film Analysis

Synopsis

The film starts with Jalil waiting for his friends who were still in school settling with other stuff. He waited in a mamak stall for a long period of time and was looking around and nothing else to do. Then, his friend called and asked him to go to the night market. While finding his friends in the night market, he bumped into CL and fell in love instantly. The story ends with Jalil sudden heart felt and his feelings of love lingering that night.

Film Analysis

Several techniques from the French Impressionism movement were used in this film. After the sun setting scene, Jalil looks around and his minds begins to float away. Shots of the surrounding were shot and edited into slow-motion to bring out the feeling long waiting and time passing by very slowly. The slow-motion part was accompanied with effects of hollow space sound that can brings out the sense of spaced out and emptiness of his mind. These technique present the psychological state of Jalil when he feels boring and dreary. Everything comes to halt when his phone suddenly rang and this scene was edited abruptly to cut the day-dreaming of Jalil. Besides, the first fragment of the film has added yellowish colour to give impression of the warm evening.

Then, the second part covers the drunkenness of Jalil’s mind. He was feeling dizzy, frustrated and certainly tired as well. Point of view shots were included to portray his feelings. Close-up shots up with framing up to his neck were to show the crowd that was straggling and suffocating him. And then, he met the love his life. Everything goes into detail and this is where slow-motion comes in to place. Background sound was toned down while he pauses and watched her swallowed by the crowd. Jalil’s heart skipped a beat and was stunted by her beauty thus the slow-motion effect. And this film ends with a love song that continues until the final blackout. Also, a blue colour tone was used to depict coldness and night chills. 

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