In his debut movie Mau Jadi Apa? (What Do You Want to Be?), stand-up comic Soleh Solihun has found a new vehicle for his jokes.
There are a little more than 180 pages in media researcher Wisnu Prasetya Utomo's 2013 book Pers Mahasiswa Melawan Komersialisasi Pendidikan (Student Journalism's Strife with the Commercialization of Education).
But one thing that struck me the most was this passage from the famed writer Amir Effendi Siregar's foreword: "A dilemma emerges because in a developing nation like Indonesia, a college student has always been expected to contribute their thoughts to political, social and economic matters of the people since they begin school."
Stand-up comic Soleh Solihun was a student joiurnalist at Padjadjaran University (Unpad).
He's been a guest on MetroTV's Stand-Up Comedy Show, performed a solo concert in 2015 titled Majelis Tidak Alim and wrote comedy books. And of course, he's stood up there for his audience. A day made, perhaps for them.
On Nov. 30, they will get to see Soleh and his props on stage. He won't be alone.
In the coming-of-age movie Mau Jadi Apa? (What Do You Want to Be?), Soleh, who co-directed the movie with Agasyah Karim and Khalid Kashogi, has found a new avenue for his jokes.
The film has all the DNA makeup of a Soleh Solihun joke: Abrupt cut away scenes and an affinity for meta-filmmaking. Though the film feels slightly uneven, what anchors it is Soleh's comedy upbringing.
Covering his years at Unpad from 1997, the film is set in the university's School of Communications, located in Jatinangor, West Java.
What's so engaging about the film is that it feels like a series of vignettes culled from Soleh's recollection of his time at the university. That's why he plays a fictionalized version of himself; he breaks the fourth-wall to explain why he plays himself in the movie: Because he looked old when he was young and also, the actor Reza Rahadian "is in too many movies."
And student journalism provides a backdrop for Mau Jadi Apa? Though the real Soleh is a former journalist himself (for Rolling Stone Indonesia, Trax Magazine and Playboy Indonesia), the fictionalized one is disgruntled by how the student newspaper at Unpad at the time, Fakta Jatinangor (Jatinangor Facts or FakJat), is choked by its own self-seriousness, written and printed at the time of the NewOrder's long-awaited crumbling.
That's why Soleh - along with Marsyel (Adjisdoaibu), Eko (Awwe), Fey (Anggika Bolsterli), Syarif (Ricky Wattimena), Lukman (Boris Bokir) - decides to start a "competing newspaper": Karung Goni, a photocopied newspaper of puff pieces and gossip, which is all the rage among the classes of 1997 to 1999.
I was momentarily of what the film is trying to argue with this plot: When Soleh pitches a profile of the band Pure Saturday for FakJat, is this the film's way of saying that misic has no place in the pantheon of serious topics?
Then again, it's a comedy, and a very light one at that, too. The journalist in the movie, as the credits roll, still traffic in the thirst fot muck raking. The intended under-exploration perhaps serves more as a comedic effect.
But the film suffers when it tries to tie up the loose-ends of its many characters, other than Soleh himself.
When Lukman meets with his deadbet father, it only serves to create and resolve a conflict that ends in less than 10 minutes.
The romance stuff - between Soleh and Ros (Aurelie Moeremans) or Marsyel and Putri (Putri Marino) - is also pretty half-baked and formulatic. That said, Anggika shines as the character with the most range - from overly maniac to gamely spewing out her emotionally cahrged moments.
I wish the film had more smaller and witty moments. When Ernest, an International Relations student at Unpad (played by Ernest Prakasa, also an International Relations student at the university), shows up, the characters take their time to make fun of the following: That there's no way a Chinese person could ever be a governor of that Ernest reminds one of the characters of the kid from the "shop next door" - a reference to the real Ernest film Cek Toko Sebelah (Check the Shop Next Door).
Ambrosius (Gading Marten) is praised by one of the characters in the film because he looks like the "young Roy Marten."
To me, the film hit too close to home because I currently major in journalism in college. The trope commonly seen in journalism classes - yellow journalism!" - is one of my favourite bottle moments throughout the film.
This joke, alongside many of Soleh's cherished memories from this period of his life (his band at Unpad, Lalieur Leleuleus Paregel, reunited for a song called "Bakada Soleh Solihun" that is featured in the movie) is what ultimately feeds power to Mau Jadi Apa? Look, Mr. Soleh, it's your new stage.
Starvision,Millenia; 94 minutes
Directed by Monty Tiwa, Soleh Solihun
Cast Soleh Solihun, Aurelie Moeremans, Putri Marino, Adjisdoaibu, Awwe, Anggika Bolsterli, Ricky Wattimena, Boris Bokir
Stanley Widianto
Contributor/Jakarta
There are a little more than 180 pages in media researcher Wisnu Prasetya Utomo's 2013 book Pers Mahasiswa Melawan Komersialisasi Pendidikan (Student Journalism's Strife with the Commercialization of Education).
But one thing that struck me the most was this passage from the famed writer Amir Effendi Siregar's foreword: "A dilemma emerges because in a developing nation like Indonesia, a college student has always been expected to contribute their thoughts to political, social and economic matters of the people since they begin school."
Stand-up comic Soleh Solihun was a student joiurnalist at Padjadjaran University (Unpad).
He's been a guest on MetroTV's Stand-Up Comedy Show, performed a solo concert in 2015 titled Majelis Tidak Alim and wrote comedy books. And of course, he's stood up there for his audience. A day made, perhaps for them.
On Nov. 30, they will get to see Soleh and his props on stage. He won't be alone.
In the coming-of-age movie Mau Jadi Apa? (What Do You Want to Be?), Soleh, who co-directed the movie with Agasyah Karim and Khalid Kashogi, has found a new avenue for his jokes.
The film has all the DNA makeup of a Soleh Solihun joke: Abrupt cut away scenes and an affinity for meta-filmmaking. Though the film feels slightly uneven, what anchors it is Soleh's comedy upbringing.
Covering his years at Unpad from 1997, the film is set in the university's School of Communications, located in Jatinangor, West Java.
What's so engaging about the film is that it feels like a series of vignettes culled from Soleh's recollection of his time at the university. That's why he plays a fictionalized version of himself; he breaks the fourth-wall to explain why he plays himself in the movie: Because he looked old when he was young and also, the actor Reza Rahadian "is in too many movies."
And student journalism provides a backdrop for Mau Jadi Apa? Though the real Soleh is a former journalist himself (for Rolling Stone Indonesia, Trax Magazine and Playboy Indonesia), the fictionalized one is disgruntled by how the student newspaper at Unpad at the time, Fakta Jatinangor (Jatinangor Facts or FakJat), is choked by its own self-seriousness, written and printed at the time of the NewOrder's long-awaited crumbling.
That's why Soleh - along with Marsyel (Adjisdoaibu), Eko (Awwe), Fey (Anggika Bolsterli), Syarif (Ricky Wattimena), Lukman (Boris Bokir) - decides to start a "competing newspaper": Karung Goni, a photocopied newspaper of puff pieces and gossip, which is all the rage among the classes of 1997 to 1999.
I was momentarily of what the film is trying to argue with this plot: When Soleh pitches a profile of the band Pure Saturday for FakJat, is this the film's way of saying that misic has no place in the pantheon of serious topics?
Then again, it's a comedy, and a very light one at that, too. The journalist in the movie, as the credits roll, still traffic in the thirst fot muck raking. The intended under-exploration perhaps serves more as a comedic effect.
But the film suffers when it tries to tie up the loose-ends of its many characters, other than Soleh himself.
When Lukman meets with his deadbet father, it only serves to create and resolve a conflict that ends in less than 10 minutes.
The romance stuff - between Soleh and Ros (Aurelie Moeremans) or Marsyel and Putri (Putri Marino) - is also pretty half-baked and formulatic. That said, Anggika shines as the character with the most range - from overly maniac to gamely spewing out her emotionally cahrged moments.
I wish the film had more smaller and witty moments. When Ernest, an International Relations student at Unpad (played by Ernest Prakasa, also an International Relations student at the university), shows up, the characters take their time to make fun of the following: That there's no way a Chinese person could ever be a governor of that Ernest reminds one of the characters of the kid from the "shop next door" - a reference to the real Ernest film Cek Toko Sebelah (Check the Shop Next Door).
Ambrosius (Gading Marten) is praised by one of the characters in the film because he looks like the "young Roy Marten."
To me, the film hit too close to home because I currently major in journalism in college. The trope commonly seen in journalism classes - yellow journalism!" - is one of my favourite bottle moments throughout the film.
This joke, alongside many of Soleh's cherished memories from this period of his life (his band at Unpad, Lalieur Leleuleus Paregel, reunited for a song called "Bakada Soleh Solihun" that is featured in the movie) is what ultimately feeds power to Mau Jadi Apa? Look, Mr. Soleh, it's your new stage.
Starvision,Millenia; 94 minutes
Directed by Monty Tiwa, Soleh Solihun
Cast Soleh Solihun, Aurelie Moeremans, Putri Marino, Adjisdoaibu, Awwe, Anggika Bolsterli, Ricky Wattimena, Boris Bokir
Stanley Widianto
Contributor/Jakarta
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