No reason for Lying

Dream, is (again) one of the most favourite theme of movie script, that is emphasized by some Indonesian movies, lately. Serdadu Kumbang is one of Indonesian movie which tells about the dreams of children came from a rural area in Indonesia. To be similar with the previous movie by Alenia Production, Ale, as the director, was trying to convey the message of social life problems and educational critics in rural area, where television, radio or other information media belong to rare and precious things. This movie was set in Sumbawa island, Nusa Tenggara Barat. Again, another beautiful unexplored site on the Eastern of Indonesia.

We might have seen such a movie telling us about dreams, Laskar Pelangi, Sang Pemimpi, and Denias. Serdadu Kumbang also tells us about dreams of children living in a remote area, wherein is ironically different compared to ones living in a big city. Actually, everyone must have a dream. That's what they are living for. Without dreams, people may be such at a loose end, not knowing their own purposes and goals. This movie tells us about the dreams of children who are going to have a final examination so that they will graduate from school. The main character of this movie is Amek, a little boy who has habit to watch news-broadcasting to inform his neighbourhood about the things up in the country. Despite of his good attitudes, he was disintegrated by others for his chippy lips and his failures of passing the previous final school examinations. He wants to reach his dream of being graduated from school and being a news anchor when he has grown up. He has two best friends, Acan and Umek who always help each others for every problems they face in life.

However, some people will do anything- good or even bad- reaching their dreams. They might even lie to other human beings for a dream.

In my opinion, Serdadu Kumbang is likely to emphasize the matter of lying commonly happen in our life. I may even say that everybody might have lied in their life (no offence). Some might think that they did it for good, but in my humble opinion, I believe that lying has no good at all. According to Encarta Dictionary, lie means saying something that is not true in a conscious effort to deceive others. Based on dictionary.com; lie has the meaning of a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. Thus, I may conclude that lying harms others by the untrue story.

Some persons may have lied to protect, to build a good self-imaging, or to avoid and run their problems away. In this movie, we could see that there are some characters who keep lying in order to survive in living. Ironically, lie existed in school where children should get education in as well. Whereas, children need to learn how to have good characteristics for a peaceful and fair living.

This movie, may have a good intention to tickle the audiences so that they will realize that matter. Nonetheless, this may be a boomerang for the audiences, especially children, who might have interpreted these values in a wrong way. This is a good movie, but children need the guidance of the older to watch it. All in all, I am so proud of Indonesia's beautiful scenery which other countries don't have it...