Ngeri-ngeri Sedap, Movie Review

Hello everyone!
This month has finally come, I have been waiting for a long time to watch the film I have been waiting for since the beginning of the year, one of my favorite directors is releasing his work this month and I am really looking forward to it. Benedion is a new director who is packing his work and this is the second film he has made. Although his debut film had many shortcomings, it was able to show that he could be a great director, so I was interested in watching his second film.

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Sinopsis

Ngeri-ngeri Sedap, this film is Benedion Rajagukguk's second work after Ghost Writer. This film tells the story of a Batak tribal family with conflicts that are very relatable to most Batak families. A husband and wife who live in Balige - Lake Toba, have 3 sons and 1 daughter, where the husband and wife really want their children to go home because they have migrated far away to achieve their careers and lives, by all means, the parents were finally able to persuade the three their sons to come home by lying that their parents were getting divorced.

Pros & Cons
This film tells a lot of real issues that occur in the life of the Batak family, it is very relatable if the audience comes from a Batak family, even though this film is also very good for movie connoisseurs. The director seems to tell his personal life in the form of a film. Including the conflict with the father, which I really admit that the parents of the Batak family (father) never got along with their son.

As I know, in this film the director is able to show the life of a Batak family who highly respects the comparison of his son's success with other people's children. There are so many parents who equate the success of their children with other people in terms of work, even considering the consideration of matching their children with the same ethnic group. That Batak boys have to marry Batak girls too.

In addition, many Batak girls have dilemmas, especially since there is only one girl who has to follow her parents' wishes. Not even a few Batak parents manage their daughter's work, not allowing their daughter to have big dreams, let alone having to wander far from their parents. The director was able to assemble all these issues into a slick film, although I was a little disappointed because this film did not use the typical Batak language. The director once said that it was very difficult to get actors who could use the Batak language, because it would be very stiff. Batak language is indeed very complex to be used in films. Maybe it will interfere with the acting of the actor/actress.

Review
This film is a family comedy genre, played by standup comedians, namely Boris Bokir as the first child (Domu), Gita Bebita (Sharma), Lolox (Gabe), and Jegel as the fourth child (Sahat). The main characters of this film are played by Arswendy Beningswara Nasution and Tika Pangabean.

I really like this film because it has a new story, it discusses something that has never been seen in an Indonesian family film, especially since this film is very relatable to my family who come from a Batak family with the same conflict. While watching, the sinking feeling of being a daughter in a batak family reappears on the surface.

Apart from the storyline, this film has a very good musical arrangement, filled by Viky Sianipar whose quality is beyond doubt, even though he uses Batak folk songs, Viky Sianipar is able to make an ost that can be accepted by all audiences and is amazed by these songs.

One more thing that I can conclude from this film, although it uses several actors from stand-up comedy, the comedy provided is not from the comedians, but the main characters. For me, the acting from the cast is very good even though it's not from real actors but it's very cool, especially when taking one shot which can make my heart torn and shed tears.

I hope you can watch this film as a reference for my version of the best Indonesian film in 2022. So, see you guys!

See you in the next one :)

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