Modus Anomali - Joko Anwar (2012)

[E = mc²]

semakin keliatan "crop foto Rio+tempel di gambar hutan"

apalagi gambar kaos itemnya. ih

*jadi inget poster film sebelah

[choodee]

Itu tangannya si aktor kek dikasi efek plastik sotosop

Parangnya keliatan tempelan

Expresi si aktor kurang sengsara

Overall poster barunya jelek... Udah ga unik editannya kasar

@rumus mirip poster apa tu mus?

[win66ih]

Tambahan aja nih.
Desainer posternya adalah Adriano Dio Rudiman.
Yang bikin film EFFECT di fisfic dan yang nggambar komik Kambing Jantan.

Ini saking poornya, kita sampe males ngebahas sosok pembunuh di badannya dia gitu.
Sampe disangka grafis baju.

[win66ih]

Wah, ternyata short review dari orang2 yang udah pada nonton di SXSW lumayan banyak yang ga suka euy.

[choodee]

Minta link reviewnya donk

[win66ih]

Gue pun bacanya dari twitter sih. Coba search aja dengan keyword modus anomali aja.
Tak kutip beberapa deh

@EricDSnider: MODUS ANOMALI: brutal, nasty, super weird. Weirdness not always intentional. Ugly for ugliness' sake.

@BTSjunkie: MODUS ANOMALI is a tedious film built on the vaguest hint of a poor story idea. I found nothing about it to like. #sxsw #fb

@JacobSHall: MODUS ANOMALI is the worst film I've seen at an Austin festival. A staggeringly incompetent piece of junk that has no place at SXSW.

@JeremyKKirk: MODUS ANOMALI is ugly and tedious. Ok twist, but not enough to merit recommendation. I'm already bored talking about it.

@scottEweinberg: I promise I will review MODUS ANOMALI if you promise not to hate me after you read it.

Yang ngedukung juga ada kok.

[choodee]

Kalo pilem kek gini susah sih, kalo yg ga doyan horor slasher biasanya ga suka banged kalo brutalnya over the top. Pilem slasher imo tgtg eksekusinya, kek human centipede itu brutal tapi boring banged.

Ada yg kejebak twistnya, gw jadi ragu ya twistnya ala haute tension, pilem mayan terkenal ini, masa ada yg kejebak ampe dua kali

Pengen liat review detailnya deh... Sebenarnya agak ngarep ini pilem sukses di luar, kek the raid, bs mengangkat perfilman indo, kali indo terkenal ama slashernya

[win66ih]

Gue juga penasaran sama review lengkapnya sih.
Ada juga yang bilang Indonesia's Cabin In the Woods.

[Blitzen]

low expectation aja lah ntar pas nontonya

[choodee]

Cabin in the woods?? Jangan bilang krn settingnya sama2 di hutan soalnya pas baca review citw dan ntn trailernya (blom ntn movienya), impresi dan tebakan twistnya beda pas ntn modus anomali.

[win66ih]

Nih review2nya

I don’t know what kind of magical mind muddling substances were dissolved into the water coolers during SXSW Festival Programming, but after last night’s World Premiere of Joko Anwar’s Indonesian Horror/Thriller ‘Modus Anomali’, I am beginning to think that perhaps half of the panel just didn’t show up.
Now about this time during a review I would probably go into great detail describing the intricacies of the plot and perhaps the deep seeded sociological issues contained within. The problem is that with Modus Anomali, there was almost no hint of any substantial story. Basically a man wakes up buried alive in the woods, returns to his cabin to discover his wife murdered and children missing, and then proceeds to run around for 80 minutes shouting obscenities in broken English. THAT’S IT! You could plausibly get up after the opening scene, go out and have a nice steak dinner, and come back for the last 10 minutes and still be 100% caught up.
Rio Dewanto, who plays the film’s leading role, puts forth a performance that I’m sure on set seemed like some of the most award winning dramatic beat changes of all time, but on screen he just instead seemed to be channeling Dakota Fanning ala War of the Worlds. The same goes for absolutely every single other actor in the film. It was almost like they just picked people off the side of the road and asked them if they had a few minutes to read some lines and sprint through a few meters of forest; ridiculous!
The bad acting and the terrible plot weren’t even the worst part of this film. That honor goes to the terrible joke of a 3rd act that literally spend 20 minutes methodically revealing the supposed ‘twist’ that the WHOLE audience already figured out way back in the 1st act!! Anwar must have forgotten that he wasn’t back in the first decade of film making, and that audiences were actually able to figure out quite a bit of information on their own! Oh, and don’t get me started on all the terribly unmotivated camera work. It was as if Mr. Anwar couldn’t decide whether to shoot a straight traditional narrative or a found-footage feature, and just decided he’d figure it out well.. never!
It takes a lot for me to be disappointed by a midnight film and even more to encourage me to write about said disappointment. By nature the horror genre is allowed an uncanny amount of leeway with its content. Audiences sometimes like things to be a little low budget and a little cheesy, but the gracious patience of horror fanatics isn’t infinitely pliable and Modus Anomali somehow was able to find that breaking point. Once again, another foul joke has been played upon SXSW movie-goers, and I’m sure somewhere right now, the festival’s programmers are having themselves quite a laugh. If you want to see what the future of Indonesian film really looks like, go see The Raid: Redemption instead.

Sos

Joko Anwar's newest film features a cabin in the woods, but otherwise bears no resemblance to anything coming out of Hollywood.

Modus Anomali is a confounding, mystifying experience that initially feels like a minimalist exercise, an identity crisis both for the lead character and the filmmaker. And then it revolves into a true head-scratcher, a picture that definitely belongs in the 'WTF' horror sub-genre.

Though I have yet to catch up with Anwar's first feature, Janji Joni, I have seen Dead Time: Kala and The Forbidden Door, which are both heavily-stylized, wildly colorful, and "trippy" in the best sense of the word. Kala, especially, left me in the dark; I couldn't always figure out what was going on, story-wise, but I didn't especially care: the images were so bizarre and potent that I found myself transfixed by what was flashing before me on the screen.

Modus Anomali throws away those kind of visual landscapes. The film begins with establishing shots of a forest, insects crawling and flying, and then, suddenly, a man (Rio Dewanto) who has been buried alive in a shallow grave wakes up. He doesn't know who he is, or how he got there. His cell phone -- which works in the middle of a forest! -- displays no contact information. He disconnects his emergency phone call until he can regain his bearings.

He heads to a nearby cabin, where he discovers a videotape capturing a brutal act of violence against a pregnant woman (Hannah Al Rashid), as well as evidence that two children, a boy (Aridh Tritama) and a girl (Izzi Isman), are missing in the woods. Was this his beautiful wife? Was this his cabin? Are the two teenagers his children? The man's temporary amnesia leaves him incredibly frustrated, but he quickly comes to the conclusion that a vicious killer is loose and the children must be found.

The film is difficult to write about further without venturing into spoiler territory, but suffice it to say that things get more weird, more bloody, and more perplexing before any answers (of a sort) become evident.

Twelve hours after watching it, Modus Anomali is still resonating nicely in my brain. As I alluded to earlier, the first portion, which consists of a lot of sneaking around in a small part of a very dark forest, and is presented at an extremely slow pace, made me believe that Anwar was experimenting with a different style of filmmaking. (In the post-screening Q&A, Anwar said that he intentionally wanted to make a "lo-fi" film.) From that standpoint, it felt minor, especially in comparison with Kala and Forbidden Door.

Taken as a whole, Modus Anomali still feels like a somewhat lesser work from an accomplished filmmaker, but that's because he's set a high standard for himself. It's the kind of film I was hoping to see from him, something that isn't exactly like what he's done before, an effort to flex his artistic muscles. It's his first feature in English -- he said "****!" doesn't sound right in Indonesian, and the lead character speaks English as though the only two words he knows are "****" and "****!" -- and the delivery of the dialogue sounds off, at least to my American ears, and prompted unintentional laughter last night, as did some of the super-melodramatic moments.

But maybe that's intentional, as with much else that happens in the movie. After a certain point, I had no idea what was going to happen next, but I was transfixed by what was unfolding on screen. I believe that Joko Anwar knows what he's doing, and even if not everything made the transition from his brain to the screen -- narrative logic is not necessarily his strength -- Modus Anomali kept my jaw dropping throughout.

Let's just say that it made my brain melt and drip out through my ears.

Sos

Spoiler for Tambahan dari gue - Prediksi ending:

Gara2 nimbrung di forum sebelah gue jadi keingetan di scene akhir pintu terlarang, Rio Dewanto confess ke Pendeta Gambir. Bisa jadi cerita modus anomali ini masih terjadi di kepala Gambir. Rio Dewanto IRL mungkin dokter di Herosase yang nggak keliatan di film pintu terlarang. Gimana? Hehe

[choodee]

screaming ala dakota fanning in war of the world... oh noes!!!!

gw paling benci pilem horror yang pemainnya kebanyakan tereak.

paling fail nya di bahasa ya, lagian gw juga bingung siy, joko anwar ngapain ya pake script bahasa inggris segala? apalagi kalo maw di bawa ke amrik, ya gw bisa bayangin para audience amrik bakal aneh ngedengarnya, dan ini bisa ngurangin kenikmatan nonton. lagian kalo genre horror, gw yakin penontonnya adalah tipe2 yang ga masalah nonton pilem foreign bersubtitle (gw denger banyak orang amrik males nonton pilem asing karena pake subtitle), atau kalau maw dipaksa ke bahasa inggris juga dialognya, mending didub kek pilem À l'intérieur, dubnya yang bagusan kek pilem ntu, tapi emang bakal makan banyak biaya lagi.

tapi still makanya dari awal, gw ga nemu advantage dari bikin modus anomali dengan aktor lokal "dipaksa" berdialog inggris, dengan aksen yang ga memadai, karena dialog, penekanan nada bicara juga setengah dari akting seorang aktor/aktris.

Spoiler for ahem:

bisa jadi, soalnya di sini ada karakter dengan cewe hamil, pas awal joko anwar ngabarin maw bikin modus anomali dan ngasi taw inti ceritanya gw sempat ngira dia punya fetish sama cewe hamil loh, soalnya pilem keduanya ttg cewe hamil lagi tapi kalo ini ada benang merahnya sama pintu terlarang, make sense, apalagi kalo ini cuman khayalannya si gambir. gw lupa ada si rio di pintu terlarang, gw terlalu impressed sama senyum gambir di ending itu sih tapi kalo ini khayalan si gambir, harusnya sih ada penampakan gambir ya, tapi gw ga ada notice penampakan fachry albar disebut sebut. tapi sebenarnya kalo twistnya lagi2 cuman khayalan schizophrenic penghuni horsase, agak2 basi, karena pintu terlarang juga udah pake twist itu. gw mengharapkan twist yang lain, misal horsase ternyata rsj yang mengadakan penelitian dengan melepas dua pasiennya ke hutan untuk saling membunuh

[Blitzen]

^makanye, klo mau dialog inggris ya pake aktor bule aje

[Blitzen]

udah april neeeeeeeh. kapan sih tayang nya?

[win66ih]

^26 April kan kakaaaaaqh....

Btw ada ini nih




John Evans

[Blitzen]

joyko ngondyek deh

[nodivine]

kayaknya.. kurang menarik nih? palagi dilihat dari review.
lagipula dari trailernya, gw uda ga gitu suka.. kenapa musti pake bahasa Inggris?

[noodles maniac]

Hmmmm... film thriller yah

setelah liat 3 trailer nya kenapa gw langsung kepikiran kalo di akhir pilemnya tuh...

Spoiler for apa ya...:

si rio sendiri lah pembunuhnya

let's prove that i was wrong

[choodee]

Si joko anwar nyepam testi modus anomali mulu nih akhir2 ini di twitter

[noodles maniac]

Yup, dan kebanyakan isinya pujian mulu , dah gw bales tuh

gw kasih linknya kopimaya ke dia, mudah2an dibaca