Thursday, 4 February 2016

AGORA

 


Devus        : Tell me something. Do u ever think we’re mistaken?

Ammonius: Why?
Devus        : I was forgiven but now I can't forgive.
Ammonius: Forgive? Who? the Jews? 
Davus        : Well Jesus pardoned them on the cross. 
Ammonius : Jesus was God........
Friend         : How dare are u compare yourself to God?


       Agora adalah film dwibahasa, dimana menggunakan bahasa Inggris dan Spanyol. Sebenernya Inggrisnya buat percakapan dan Spanyolnya Cuma buat prolog dan epilog sih, dan Cuma berupa tulisan berjalan. Agora sendiri artinya forum untuk pertemuan di zaman Yunani Kuno. Ia menyajikan cerita yang menarik, mengusung tema perseteruan antar kepercayaan dan ditambah dengan bumbu-bumbu ilmu pengetahuan. Ceritanya sih based on history ya meskipun ditambahi dengan alur dan tokoh fiktif biar makin cetar. Langsung yak check it out.
     Dahulu kala 391 sesudah masehi terdapat seorang filsuf perempuan bernama Hypatia. Ia merupakan kalangan terpelajar dan menjadi guru di sebuah sekolah Platonic di Alexandria. Jadi, waktu itu Alexandria, Mesir merupakan bagian dari kerajaan Romawi. Perbudakan merupakan hal yang wajar. Keluarga Hypatia sendiri punya beberapa budak, salah satunya bernama Davus, budak ganteng nan kece badai mempesona. Davus ini diam-diam suka sama Hypatia, tapi apalah daya ia hanya seorang budak (bingung mau nyayi yang mana buat ni soundtrack, diam-diam aku mengagumimu (dewi persik) apa lagu cita citata, aku mah apa atuuhhhh). Ditambah lagi Hypatia ditaksir sama muridnya, Orestes, yang merupakan seorang aristokrat. Nantinya Orestes ini bakalan jadi pemimpin di Alexandria. Tapi sayang cintanya bertepuk sebelah tangan, soalnya Hypatia lebih tertarik sama filsafat daripada lelaki.
        Waktu itu di Alexandria para Aristokrat dan bangsawan pada menganut agama Pagan. Tau lah ye Pagan ape? Itu lho yang nyembah berhala (patung-patung) dan Dewanya banyak. Nah pada saat itu pula lagi gencar-gencarnya Kristen menyebarkan agamanya, kepercayaan kalau Tuhan itu Esa. Mereka pakai pakaian hitam-hitam dan dakwah dipusat-pusat kota macam pasar gitu ye. Mereka menyasar budak-budak dan masyarakat ekonomi kelas bawah. Nah karena orang-orang Pagan merasa terancam, karena lama-lama mulai tambah banyak yang masuk Kristen, Mereka membuat siasat untuk serang balik. Apalagi makin hari tingkah pendakwah Kristen makin menjadi-jadi, mereka melecehkan dewa sesembahan orang Pagan dengan melempari patung-patung itu dengan buah dan sayur. Mereka mengejek karena Tuhan orang Pagan dilempari tapi diem aja. Makanya orang Pagan marah dan ngeroyok orang-orang Kristen tersebut. Tawuran massal kan tuh mereka. Tapi orang Pagan terpukul mundur gegara kalah jumlah. Akhirnya mereka terpojok di perpustakaan (sekolah Platonic disini) dan mereka tutup gerbangnya. Petinggi romawi pun datang dan mengirimkan pesan penyelesaian konflik,  orang Pagan suruh mundur teratur dan pergi, mereka disuruh keluar dari pintu belakang, kota bakalan diserahin ke Kaum Kristen. Kaum Pagan pada begindrangan nyelamatin buku-buku di perpus buat dibawa pergi. Disini tuh diliatinnya kayak orang Pagan itu orang-orang yang lebih tertarik ke ilmu pengetahuan sedangkan orang Kristen lebih tertarik ke wahyu Tuhan.
        Pas Hypatia sibuk nyelametin buku-buku dia marah karena Davus ga ada buat bantuin dia. Davus pun nurut pas disuruh bawa sekarung penuh buku (gulungan kertas sihh bukan buku hehe). Tapi sampai tengah jalan dia balik lagi dan menghadang pasukan Kristen yang mulai masuk memababi buta. Tapi dia gak diapa-apain sama orang Kristen karena mereka tau kalo Davus itu juga penganut Kristen. Mereka ramai-ramai ngancurin patung-patung dan bakar gulungan-gulungan kertas di perpustakaan. Davus balik lagi ke tempat Hypatia dan dia ngelakuin hal-hal yang tidak senonoh ke tuannya, trus dia nangis dan ngasih pedang ke Hypatia. Tapi Hypatia malah ngelepasin kalung budaknya dan bilang kalau Davus udah bebas sekarang. Davus pun bergabung sama Kaum Kristiani, dia jadi parabolani (semacam polisi syariah di Arab Saudi kalo sekarang) yang kerjaannya menjaga kota agar sesuai dengan Norma agama yang berlaku. Mulai saat itu agama yang diperbolehin di Alexandria adalah Yahudi dan Kristen.
       Nah suatu hari para parabolani ini ngelempari kaum Yahudi pake batu pas mereka lagi nonton teater. Alasannya gegara mereka ga ngehormatin hari Sabat, bukannya sembahyang malah seneng-seneng nonton. Trus yang Kaum Yahudi balas balik. Mereka ngejebak parabolani trus ngunci mereka dan nglemparin mereka pake batu sampe mati. Keesokan harinya Cyril yang merupakan Uskup baru pun mengecam hal itu. Trus dia awal-awalnya ngomong yang baik-baik, ngomong kalo orang-orang itu ga dapet kasih Tuhan makanya berbuat gitu, tapi akhirnya dia ngomporin juga buat bales balik. Trus para parabolani termasuk Davus ngebantai kaum Yahudi di jalananan, mereka menggal kepala orang Yahudi dan nelanjangin orang-orangnya juga. Habis ngelakuin itu Davus mulai ragu, dia mulai mikir kalo yang dia lakuin ini mungkin salah. Tapi temennya ngeyakinin kalo mereka selamat waktu dilemparin batu karena Tuhan mau mereka berbuat kayak gini sekarang (red-ngebantai Yahudi).
     Hypatia yang sibuk sendiri sama penelitiannya tentang astronomi (dia nyari bentuk orbit planet-planet dan ketemu elips) pun mulai bergerak ngelihat kejadian itu. Apalagi dia satu-satunya wanita yang suaranya bisa didengar dan bebas menyampaikan pendapat. Dia mendesak Orestes buat turun tangan. Tapi ternyata malah kemalangan yang didapat Hypatia. Dia dituduh sama Cyril sebagai wanita fasik dan tukang sihir. Hypatia pun ditangkap, ditelanjangi dan mau dikuliti. Tapi Devus yang cinta sama Hypatia ga tega, dia bilang ke temen-temennya kalo ga perlu mereka ngotorin tangan pake darah dia. Trus pas temen-temennya sibuk nyari batu buat dilempar nanti. Davus meluk Hypatia dan nutup mulut n hidungnya sampe Hypatia pingsan, jadi nanti waktu dilemparin batu dia ga ngerasa sakit. Waktu bungkep Hypatia, Davus sambil nangis keingetan masa lalu wktu dia ngandukin Hypatia abis mandi, waktu Hypatia ngobatin luka cambuknya, waktu Hypatia megang kepalanya, waktu mereka ketawa banreng, waktu dia megang kaki Hypatia pas tidur,dll. Duhh so sweet pokoknya. Trus dari tulisan yang berjalan itu katanya Hypatia di mutilasi dan tubuhnya diseret dan akhirnya dibakar. Dan akhirnya Cyril berkuasa atas Alexandria.
       Hmmm such a sad ending. Tapi endingnya mantep dan ngena banget, apalagi ekspresi pemainnya bikin pengen nangis. Tambah lagunya sendu banget. Pokoknya top lah ni film. Amanatnya ngena banget, sisi historinya oke lah meskipun aku ga tau bagian mana aja yang fakta, ilmu pengetahuannya juga cucok. Film ini tuh kisah cintanya lebih ke cinta terpendam dan cinta tak terbalas. Jadi menurutku elegan dan ga berlebihan. Kita juga jadi tahu konflik antara Pagan dan Kristen atau Yahudi dan Kristen. Intinya kita semua itu sama, Kita bisa jadi orang jahat, ga perduli apapun agama kita. Ketika agama sudah ga pure religious thing, ketika udah kecampur sama kepentingan golongan tertentu, ujungnya adalah kehancuran. Recommended banget buat ditonton!!


Wednesday, 3 February 2016

I WANT TO BE WHITE





Note: this is just a fiction story. Don’t take it too much. Don’t be angry and offended. hyO ya sebenarnya saya bukan penentang kulit putih yakk, cuma saya prefer ke hal-hal yang tidak berlebihan dan menyakiti diri sendiri. Kenapa pake present tense dan banyak grammar salah? Karena saya bikinnya semau mood saya dan present tense itu paling gampang hahahha. Kapan-kapan kalau ada mood bagus saya koreksi lagi.Thanks. 

 I am a girl with many of regrets.
I was born with the skin color that  I don’t  want to have.
It is dark, brown and dirty.
I always want to have a fair skin, the white one, like a snow.
I always hate with my own skin color.
It makes me looked so ugly.
Its my biggest shame. 

           I see my mom looks so beautiful with her fair skin. She puts make up so much. Her face look brighter than her body color. Her lips are red with a bold lipstick. She wants me looked like her, to have the light skin so I can be called beautiful like her friend’s daughters. Mom wants to have a beautiful daughter, a white daughter, but I cant be that way.
            I go to school. I look around, all my friends wear bold face powder. Their body skin tone still as brown as mine, but their face looks so stunning, white and pale. All of them straighten their hair. Looks beautiful, like a broom. All of the popular girls at my school looked that way. Boys call them beautiful. They adore them. I want to be like them!! I am tired being bullied coz of my skin color. People say that I am black and dirty. Even my skin color is dark brown they call me black.
           I go home. I turn on the TV. I watch all of the advertisements offer the whitening products. All of actress look so white and beautiful. The brown actress now is white. Very beautiful.
And then I open my social media. I see my friends photos, full of editing, looks so white and beautiful. They get many likes and comments. People say them very beautiful and gorgeous. Makes me really want to know how to be white. I also want to be called beautiful. And then I see an advertisement on my account. It get so many comments. It’s a whitening product, they claim it can make our skin become white only  in 2 weeks. There are the picture before and after. The brown dirty skinned girl become white and glow. So many girls comment there to get that products. And I decide to buy that too. I transfer the money and wait the products come.
        And then I go to mall. I go to the make up side. There are too many product, almost all of them is whitening product. I don’t know which one should I buy. Then I buy the TWC powder, the side is of course  brighter than my tone. I go home very happy.
       Finally, I can go to school with bold powder. Now my face is white and I feel so proud. When I walk I see 2 foreigners. They are white, a guy and a girl. The hair is blonde.The body is tall and skinny. The nose is pointed. Perfect, Just look like a Barbie. I want to be like them!!
So I go to saloon. I straighten my hair. And I die it to blonde. I am very happy. I look like those European from behind.
      Now I use my whitening cream every night. Day by day I get my skin feel so paining. The cream peel my skin.  Its hurt but I won’t give up. I want to be beautiful!! Beautiful is pain!! I believe it will give me a pretty white skin after this all pain. But my face getting worse. Its red, its paining when I touch it. Even the sunlight in the morning hurts me so much. My friends say it’s the process, the seller of the cream also says the same, even my mom says the same.
      Finally after a long days of suffer. I wake up with the color of skin I want. Its white and pale. I like to see my face in the mirror for a long time. My white skin, my blonde hair, oh what a beautiful. But wait!! My body is still brown, my neck, my hands, my legs, all parts!! I will make it white!!


I DON'T WANT TO BE READ



         When I was in high school, I though  that it is kinda weird if a student has a crush on her/his teacher. I saw many of my friends that had a crush on an art teacher. Yeah he was sweet , talked a little and slowly (serious!! My whisper is louder), walked slowly (like a snail -_-), and somehow he was so charming. And in additional, he was young and single. That time I always though if my friends acted too much, they always had full of spirit when it was time for art class. Not because they liked art, but because they liked the teacher hahaha. But why I could not see his charming side.?! Ah may be coz I have different desire. So when my friends eyed open during his class, I felt so sleepy to hear his voice lol.
         Skip skip skip , And then one of my friend was so lucky to marry him in the same year after we graduated from high school. Wooohhh what a happy ending!!
      So this is how the story begin. (Heh so that was just a prologue??) When I was in my first semester in university. I saw a very cool and charming man. Such a mature, smart and religious one. I don’t know how to describe him. Coz in my eyes he was so interesting. Till now, my second year, I ever talked once with him woohh cool!! But do you know? Is it only me who have a crush on him? Ofcourse NOT!! You know who have crush on him? My friends, my classmates, my seniors, the girls from other majors, my juniors( from other batch),etc. May be even the food seller at canteen feel the same (just may be lhooo). Because he is such a lovely one. Always smile to everyone even he doesn’t know the one he meets on the way.
        I and my friends always like to sit in front of his office. Yeah and then he will just walk passes us(duhh RIP Grammar), holding his phone and then smiles to us. Hmmmmm. Even when it is Friday, muslim men must do Friday Prayer. We wait in front of his building office just to see him walks in from Friday prayer. You know when he passes? I feel I just look an angel from heaven (haalllllaahh that’s only my imagination) verryyy charming like I see there is bright light around him. (honestly I feel disgusting when writing this part hahaha).
      And then once when we sat in front of his office, my friend got a very lucky day. Coz the office door was opened and she could see the teacher. She said “ what a beautiful view”.  How about me? I sat in front of her, so that means the beautiful view was behind my back!! And the other day when I could sit on the perfect chair to see the beautiful view, the door is closed!! So just can see his head. But its okay, still a beautiful view btw  hahahhah.
       Huaa and then I know how my high school friends’s feeling. It’s a cute feeling even make me feel dumb sometimes. Nahh, So there would be a lucky girl as the way  my friend who was lucky to marry charming art teacher right? BIG NO!! Why? Because this teacher of university already had a wife!!!!!!!!!! (huaaaaaa I still deny that ugly truth hahhaha). 
      But  atleast I can learn something from this part. It makes me believe super believe that karma does exist lol. So I should not judge my friends’s action that time, coz when I am in their position now, I also act silly!! LOL