[originally posted on my blog]

So I was in my dining room two days ago when suddenly my older sister came to me running with a confused-yet-excited face. I asked her what happened, of course, and that was when she enthusiastically told me about her cousin (yes, her, not mine, since we only share the same father, not womb, if you know what I mean), Mas Levi, we used to call him. He participated in this Indonesian Indie Movie Competition held by Buronan Film (or so it is stated on the website's name). What she said to me was, "Ki, Mas Levi has posted the trailer for his movie in this website," she said as she gave me her iPhone, showed her safari browser with this website opened. "He needs a lot of votes so he could win the top three."

Confused and interested with the topic, (I have always been interested in Indie movies, especially those came from my own country) I asked her again of what will the top three get as the price. "The top three will receive donations, of which will be enough for the participants to make a real movie out of their trailers. So if Mas Levi win this, he'll be able to direct his own movie!"

Curious with what the trailer looks like, I opened the website given to me awhile ago and logged in using my Facebook account. An email verification is needed before anyone could log into the website and browse the gallery. After I was done doing the procedures needed to view the gallery, I searched for Mas Levi's trailer right away. The title is Bahagia Bukanlah Sempurna (briefly translated into Happiness isn't about Perfection), which you can see yourself through this link here, or here.

The movie's plot is stated below the trailer in Bahasa. Here, let me translate it into English for you:

It is about a disabled little girl who only has one leg and one arm. She only lives with her father, who likes to drink a hell lot since his wife abandoned him with their child. The poor girl quit her school for being bullied by her normal classmates, only spends some of her times with a very few neighbors she has as friends, while most are spent alone. There comes a day when her father came home drunk. Losing the control of his temper, he hit the girl on her face until she lost her consciousness. That was the last time she saw him around. The plot jumped into years later, when the girl has turned into an independent woman with a supporting mannequin leg and arm. Lives in an apartment all by herself, she tends to have nightmares at night, about a ghost of a little girl pulling her mannequin body parts away from her, makes her feel uncomfortable. She then decided to go back to her old house, where she finds a box filled with old Polaroid pictures, and the picture shocks her. The picture captures herself in blood, with a leg and an arm belongs to another little girl. She tries to remember about what has happened in the past, and the ending reveals the reason for her nightmares. She killed a girl who bullied her a lot when she was still in school, just for having a perfection that doesn't even bring her any happiness.

Ergh, scary much, eh? *shivers* Ghost stories don't scare me, but they do, when they have a touch of thriller in it. I hate thriller, not that I dislike it, it's actually one of my favorite genres, but it scares the out of me. And I think this movie, if Mas Levi ever win this (in which I hope he will), will scare the out of me too. I mean, come on, don't you think cutting other people's body parts aren't horrifying enough?! Personally, I like the plot, it is something one could use in a fiction, but one doesn't simply come up with such idea. It's unique in its own way. I'm being a little biased here, though, since I think he has some heavy competitors there *amazed with what's in the gallery* but really, he deserves some more votes than he got already right now. 38?! Others have above 400 votes, I mean, come on!

Best of luck for Mas Levi. I hope anyone who read this wouldn't bother to use some of their minutes to give it a try, to put on some vote-ups, to give a chance for this guy to give what Indonesian Horror Movie needs, the "vibe", and ain't the . ( IS WHAT'S IN INDONESIAN'S MOST HORROR MOVIES, HOW PATHETIC IS THAT?!) Apart from that, I wish everyone a good day ahead.

Honolulu, peeps!