KALA: Dead Time

T O M I E · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: KALA: Dead Time

K A L A
AKA: Dead Time | The Secret
directeur: Joko Anwar

résumé:
In a state where the justice is done at the street, a cop namely Eros must face a dead case of 5 people who are killed by the mass. The investigation brings Eros into a dangerous trap and meets a bunch of brutal and powerful people pursue valuable thing that Eros doesn’t aware of.

At the same time, there is a journalist namely Janus who suffers a narcolepsy and also investigate the same case for his newspaper. A person before suicide gives him a big secret and Janus starts being hound by powerful people who want that secret too. But no one realize that a power that’s not come from a human also works to protect the secret and there’s only one person who has destined to keep it.

His boss fires him as a journalist and his wife divorces him for the same reason: narcolepsy, a disturbing in the brain that makes him falls a sleep when he faces unintended emotional such as: sickness, worry and surprise. But that day he will begin the biggest adventure in his life, when his news subject brings him to the high conspiracy labyrinth full of mystery and dangerous. Janus then realizes that what he considers as only a disturbing brain, perhaps a signal from something really big and out of human’s logic, that makes him being chased by some powerful people. --by Angie

* VEOH requis *

T O M I E · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject:

Sorry everyone, I UL it 3 time at CR but they wudn't take this one Crying or Very sad

...heh, maybe not horror ... defies genre. Sorta Crime / Fantasy / Thriller / Sci-Fi / Martial Arts / Neo Noir ... JFK meets Saras 008 sortas thing:P ....

Katzee · Children of DOLL Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1131

This looks excellent! I've watched just a few minutes and the production quality and atmosphere is top-notch. I haven't seen an Inodnesian film yet. This will be my first!

Thank you Tomie! I'll tell you what I think about it after it finishes buffering up and I can watch it (I've got torrents running, it may be a bit).

bloodymonarch · Extreme Poster Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 121

i watched the first part ,but it stop after they cut his hand and poured stuff on it . where is the rest
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Katzee · Children of DOLL Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1131

..Okay, that was the second Indonesian film I've seen (I forgot about Terowonga)...

First of all, there's a little Greek/Roman mythology going on in the film. Eros is the god of lust and love (aka cupid). Janus is a lesser known god. He's the god of doors and new beginnings. Both character fit their names.

Then there's another cultural influence going on that I know very little about. Kala is either the god of the underworld, or god of time (depending where you look). However, I certainly see how it can translate as "dead time", especially when you're talking about narcolepsy. There are other names in the film which seem to correlate to their characters fate or personality. Bandi (I think...I'm probably wrong) is a kind of sacrifice (trinkets or gold) or ceremony to appease the gods. Sari is a draped garment, and I suspect that Ranti is a form of king or queen (rani). I'm probably wrong about that, too!

This is a movie where you need a little cultural background to really understand the undercurrents...I wish I had that background! LOL! Even without knowing, it's still a great watch. It has that stylish-noir feeling from an old detective classic with a few other-worldly scares thrown in. There's some references to generalized cinema and art, such as Highlander and Da Vinci. All in all, it was a real pleasure to watch.

Katzee · Children of DOLL Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1131

bloodymonarch · Extreme Poster Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 121

it shows the movie and for some reason it cuts out at different places. maybe you should re post this movie because it is having problems playing, or put it in smaller parts.just an idea, because it looks like a really good movie and i would love to see the whole thing or get it for my collection

Cuscusgrass · Fresh Meat! Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 26

History + Mysticism = Skepticism ~~ How many times have we heard ancient stories and don't believe them? Then there's the history buff who researches the past and insincerely believes it's possible.

It's amazing how the modern day characters ironically emulate the 'mystical' characters: the guy with narcolepsy / sleeper; the cop / protector. When he was reading ... I wonder if the guy who believed the history really understood the role of the people around him.

The narcoleptic's wife.... her major reason for divorce was a lie. Look what she achieved because of her greed for money. She should have been doing that every night when they were married. Wink

After realizing the story is true ... wild horses couldn't drag me to that site. Greed is a terrible thing ....

Good movie.
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Thanks for uploading! Smile

Cuscusgrass · Fresh Meat! Joined: 17 Jun 2008 Posts: 26

T O M I E · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: Re: K A L A

Katzee · Children of DOLL Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1131

T O M I E · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject:

Ya know, I'm starting to notice a pattern: cr accepts torrents but not my rips ..I have both, but the torrent file had ".sub" extenstion.So, in an attempt to convert w\ SUBtoSSA but as always seems the case, the software in question has a problem reading the file. D:<

Why so-called 'SUB2SSA' iIf you can not 'read' .SUB 'file ????!!!!! grrrr!

So anyway I'm trying to UL them separately at present...

I'll try out Magic Video Converter if that doesn't work out..

Gah !!..theres so many different forms of AvI ..I'm only now realizing I've been rpping to the disadvantage of a lower-quality version of it Embarassed

(audio-vidio interleaved ...when I should be using DiVx) (???) any views on this? .... Quality improvement tho ,to realize it only now .. So humiliating !!

...This, all along! Embarassed

...I blew it : Cool

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Katzee · Children of DOLL Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1131

Tomie!

I sent you a PM! Check you messages. (hope it helps)!

bloodymonarch · Extreme Poster Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 121

because i got to watch the whole movie. Twisted Evil

wicked sick kill scenes. the plot reminds me of that movie called the 9th gate with jonny depp. the sleeper in this movie was hot in a weird sort of way, and so was the cop. i really liked the end of this movie, because it had gore ,blood,sword fight, and pale scary people. the scene with the car crash into that one girl and then a bus, made that scene in devils reject look like kids play. love these types of movies because they are wicked sweet., with lots of bloody sick kill scenes. thats for posting such great movies. Twisted Evil

T O M I E · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:13 am Post subject: