TABULA RASA : A STORY FROM THE KITCHEN

I have to frankly say that the reason I agree to watch this movie is a name, Vino G Bastian. And for this I have to feel dissapointed bcoz he is not in the cast. Vino sitting as an assosiate producer in Tabula Rasa, and well yeah i have to admit that he should proud of this movie. Why? I will let you know why.

Tabula Rasa is a first Indonesian movie that I watched in cinema after more than 2 years, last time I went to cinema for film Catatan Harian si Boy, and yes I always choose good quality movie to watch in cinema. And also for Tabula Rasa I got free ticket from twitter, so that's why I went :D

This movie begins with the story about Hans, a young man from Serui, Papua. He feels desperately give up because he has to forget his goal to be professional footballer due to legs injury. In the way to trying to end his life, Hans met 'Mak. owner of a Minangnese restaurant "Takana Juo", Mak guesses that Hans was trying to commit suicide, so she asked Natsir (her helper in her restaurant ) to bring Hans to her house. The twist started when Mak give Hans foods from her restaurant, from here, Hans who already feel hopeless suddenly re-alive again after tasting her food, seems like the taste of this food giving him a new hope, he finished that foods and went to Mak's kitchen to clean the dishes, in the kitchen Han's eyes blinked to see the mess in her kitchen, herbs, spices, and (maybe ) the smeel too. And after that story walk soo continuosly and problem arise when Mak's cook jeolous to Hans because of him, they should share the money while their restaurant not have good sales. I will not tell more stories because it would bring spoiller, but watching the whole stories seems like watching the common life in Indonesia, they dont make any drama so they bring us to their story as if we are in that story itself.

Beside the story itself that very intense even in slow plot, I have to say that this movie bring me back to my childhood when I spent my time in my grandma's kitchen to watching her cooking, you will not find gas stove or clean kitchen, because they have a very traditional kitchen with stone stove and woodens, but you know what,  I feel very amazaed what Mak's said about her stove : This stove that make the foods taste good, if we have to change with modern stove it will change the taste. Same words my Grandma told me 15 years ago!


I think Dewi Irawan having very great acting in this movie, her expresions are just perfectly superb! I saw her acting in another movie called "Sang Penari" which also brought her trophy for best supporting role, and yes she seems specialist for strong character. Another role that amazed me is Hans, that papua guy, and yes the actor also from Papua. and I was surprised to know that this is his debut movie. He played really well and seems like he born to act. 

For me, Tabula Rasa is a culinary amazing movie, even their plot very simple and a bit slow, but I can see that every scene was very touchy. And what I amazes me in this movie is their characters, every role is equally important portion in whole movie even if they are just 4 people. But that surprisingly, with only 4 roles, this movie is sooo alive, they build conflict to each other in natural way. there is nothing imposed and dramatic, every confict is build in reasonable way. Each role has same important portion and the conflicts that made each other are very reasonable and it could happend to anyone.

And yes, Vino choose this movie as his first debut on 'behind the scene' is never goes wrong, and i think this movie was not really intended to make profits. They probably focused more on the movies appearance in the festival. I will be happy to pay for cinema because it is quite enjoyable, and let me tell you if you plan to watch this movie in cinema, just make sure to eat before attending!

Because I am a woman and he is a man

"In a relationship, accepting weirdness of eachother is as much important as knowing the love itself" -potatoehoney-

I have to say that I am so lucky to have a very good man who has been my soulmate for more than 5 years. We met in a very uncommon situation, being a good friend and then having silly relationship in the first time. He was unexpectable man for me, I meant I am a movie lover who consider thats my type should be like actor in romantic movie (ahahahah) and what I got is, well, a creepy man. 

Before I have relationship with him I read this book, it is like a guide for relationship between woman and man.

I learn a lot from this book and i guess that I will ready for having mature and stable relationship with a man. I know how to handle my emotions and how to understand a man. And yes then I met him. First and second years was very beautifull, we laugh, share and had very great time. Sometimes there was emotions  too but we managed it because we both falling love with each other. But every relationship have up and down, and it is also happened to us. Most time all the theories that I knew from this book are just gone. And I am feeling that I am just a new girl who just got first love, yeah it happends!

It is very hard to deal with my self, not because I dont understand my man, but the problem is to deal with my self, with my heart, my hormons and my emotions relate with the little problems that often happends in our relationship's life. 

For example : The last sunday my "half" had deadline for his work, He already explained to me that he will be very busy with his projects and I said that I understand this. But in the weekend that we usually spending time together, I can't controll my emotion to miss him and feel lonely because he is not with me. No matter how hard I try to understand but I just couldn't stop my brain to sensitive about his busy, to miss him too much. And this lead us to complain each other, he complain me because I can't understand him and I complain him because he doesn't understand that I miss him.

That is what I meant that no matter we understand the theory, finally practice it is just separate thing with knowing the theory ^^

Talking about my man, he was my best friend before started to falling love with me. I am a type of girl who reads zodiac to learn about characteristic. My man is a capricorn, and according to zodiac capricorn are very serious and stable persons.

In another problem, our fight should start with some silly things that it is very funny if later we realized it supposed to not happend if we both face it with cool head.

And actually I have to say that it seems impossible to unite us with a lots of differences, but we choose to keep love each other and make this relationship stronger than everyone could thought.

I can be too sensitive and bombard him with a lot of love words that annoyed him, and he can makes me mad because of his cold and quiet behaviour, but in the end we will have to say that we love each other, and that all.