Riky Kurniawan

double-life

1 year, 8 months ago - Tag: Opinion - Comment (2)

Udah pada nonton Wanted kan?
Yap, gw yakin yang pertama lo ingat adalah Angelina Jolie yang berperan sebagai the-sexiest-assasin itu.

Film yang menceritakan tentang aktifitas sekelompok pembunuh berdarah dingin yang menamakan diri mereka Fraternity. Dengan mengatasnamakan keseimbangan hidup dan “firman” dari sebuah alat pemintal, mereka berhak mengambil nyawa orang dan percaya tindakan mereka akan menyelamatkan ribuan nyawa.

Tersebut seorang Wesley ’si pecundang’ Gibson dengan hidupnya yang ordinary dan pathetic. Bekerja penuh tekanan dari atasan, bersahabat dengan teman yang annoying, dan hidup bersama gadis yang penuh tuntutan. Membuat Wesley menderita syndrom yang membuat pikirannya tidak stabil.

Kehidupan Wesley yang biasa banget itu berubah 180° sewaktu dia terlibat kontak senjata antara seorang wanita dan pria yang tidak dikenalinya. Hingga akhirnya Wesly sadar bahwa dia adalah bagian dari “utusan” yang bertugas menjaga keseimbangan dunia. Wesly dilatih jadi pembunuh. Wesly dapat wahyu. bang..bang..peluru bersarang. Target mati, misi selesai dengan sukses.

Ok cukup, gue ga bakal ngasi spoiler yang terlalu banyak, lo nonton sendiri aja. Bagus koq.

Terus ngapain juga posting klo ga mau ceritain gimana? Nah, jadi begini…

Sempat ga siy lo kepikiran kalo ternyata lo itu punya kehidupan lain yang menunggu untuk di buka tabirnya. Katakanlah seorang pedagang asongan yang ternyata dia calon bisnisman atau pengamen jalanan tapi nantinya jadi penyanyi ibukota atau lo yang pemalu ternyata adalah calon MC numero uno. Lo (gue juga) sebagai apapun-yang-sedang-lakoni sekarang kadang sudah ngerasa ada di zona aman sehingga takut untuk melakukan hal berbeda di luar sana. Bukan hal yang salah, karena itu jalan yang masing² kita ambil. Tapi kalo lo pengen mencoba sesuatu yang baru dan ternyata lo berprestasi di sana, kenapa tidak mencoba untuk memulai?

Gue ingat banget, dulu pernah keringat dingin waktu presentasi bahasa inggris di ruang kursus. Di ruang kursus yang dingin itu, keringat segede jagung bercucuran tanpa henti. Pengalaman memberikan pelajaran. Dengan lingkungan tepat dan teman-teman luar biasa hal itu tidak terulangi lagi. Bahkan, ah sudahlah…tar gue dibilang songong lagi cerita banyak² tentang masa lalu.

Kalo lo ngerasa ada yang salah dengan jalan yang lo ambil sekarang, mungkin lo perlu mencoba jalan lain yang mungkin sudah menunggu untuk dilewati. Cari lingkungan yang mendukung ide-ide lo, cari rival yang membuat lo ngerasa tertantang untuk terus belajar dan lebih baik, cari teman yang suatu saat bisa mengulurkan tangan ketika lo kelelahan berlari. Fokuskan diri pada tujuan sembari nikmati proses yang sedang dijalani.

It a choice, Wesley, that each of us must face: to remain ordinary, pathetic, beat-down, coasting through a miserable existence, like sheep herded by fate, or you can take control of your own destiny and join us, releasing the caged wolf you have inside. Our purpose is to maintain stability in an unstable world – kill one, save a thousand. Within the fabric of this world, every life hangs by a thread. We are that thread – a fraternity of assassins with the weapons of fate. This is the decision that lies before you know: the sheep, or the wolf. The choice is yours.

Kenapa saya ngeblog?

1 year, 9 months ago - Tag: Opinion - Comment (3)

Kalau menurut dan merunut dari teori hierarki kebutuhan Maslow.

..sekian

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Review Spiderman 3

2 years, 10 months ago - Tag: Book&Movie, Opinion - Comment (10)

Spiderman 3, sebagai salah satu dari sekian banyak “The Most Anticipated Movies” di tahun 2007 ternyata mengecewakan.

Spoiler Alert!!

Film berdurasi 156 menit ini berkisah tentang kelanjutan kehidupan seorang fotografer lepas yang berubah drastis karena terkena gigitan laba-laba hasil genetik dan berubah dari seorang geek menjadi the-amazing-friendly-neighborhood Spiderman. Peter Parker (Tobey mcGuire) menjadi tinggi hati setelah banyak menerima pujian dan penghargaan atas alter-egonya, Spiderman. Kebanggaan tersebut menjadikannya tinggi hati dan melupakan masalah sekitarnya yang menjadi runyam ketika dia tidak peduli terhadap Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst), cewek pujaannya sedari SMU dulu.
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V for Vendetta versi komik

3 years, 1 month ago - Tag: Book&Movie, Opinion - Comment (8)
V for Vendetta

Waktu mau nyari makan (what do we called “late breakfast, early lunch” in Bahasa?) di sekitaran Syahdan, gue menyempatkan diri ke toko Laysin. Laysin ini toko buku yang menjual buku dengan harga bukunya yang di diskon 20%, lo bisa dapatin koleksi yang hampir sama persis dengan koleksi buku Gramedia, Gunung Agung, dan toko buku lainnya. Kenapa bisa murah? secara dia agen dan tidak mengikutkan harga konsinyasi(consignee) di dalam penjualannya.
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Big Fish : story teller that become the story itself

4 years, 1 month ago - Tag: Book&Movie, Fun, Opinion, Profile - No Comment (0)

kupipes dari berbagai sumber.

Will (Billy Crudup) is a journalist whose father, Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), cannot resist telling one of his far-fetched stories at his son’s wedding. This intense young man is used to playing second fiddle to his dad, who is a superb raconteur with a great sense of humor. All his life Will has listened to tales about Bloom’s adventures, yet he knows very little about who his father really is. When the old man is felled by illness, Will returns home with his pregnant French wife Josephine (Marion Cotillard). He is determined before he has his own child to find out the truth about Bloom. His mother, Sandra (Jessica Lange), hopes this quest will help reconcile the two men, who haven’t spoken to each other for three years. But first Will has to recall the stories his father has told him.

Bloom contends that he dramatically entered the world with amazing speed, shooting out of his mother’s womb and skidding down the hospital’s hallway. At the age of eight, he is bedridden for three years because of a preternatural growing jag. During this period he reads the encyclopedia and takes this little bit about goldfish to heart: “If goldfish are kept in a small bowl, they will remain small. With more space, the fish can double, triple or quadruple in size.” Bloom decides that it’s time to make a bigger space for himself. As a teenager, he wows his buddies by trying to steal the glass eye of an isolated woman (Helena Bonham Carter) who is thought to be a witch by the townsfolk. Then Bloom (Ewan McGregor) gets busy doing the kinds of things that will make him stand out from the crowd â€â€? becoming a star athlete, a science fair winner, and a hero when he rescues a dog from a burning building.

One of his finest moments comes when he is presented with the keys to Cullman, Alabama, for convincing Karl (Matthew McGrory) to leave town with him. This gentle giant, seen as a monster in the fearful community, is just a confused and lonely large man. Unwilling to be a “big fish in a small pond,” Bloom hits the road. He is filled with energy and enthusiasm. After wandering alone through a bizarre forest of aggressive trees, spiders, and bees, Bloom arrives in an archetypal town called Spectre where he meets Norther Winslow (Steve Buscemi), a blocked poet. Although life in this place is peaceful, he moves on with Karl to employment in a circus run by Amos Calloway (Danny DeVito), a very shrewd entrepreneur who is also a werewolf. Bloom agrees to work for him for nothing in exchange for information about Sandra (Alison Lohman), the beautiful young woman who steals his heart when he first catches a glimpse of her. Eventually, he finds her and shows the largesse of his devotion with a gift of 10,000 daffodils. Then he is drafted and volunteers for a dangerous mission in the Korean War where he winds up rescuing conjoined Korean lounge singers and recruiting them for the circus.

By now you’ve probably deduced that this film is filled with delightful exaggerations and unbelievable events. But as spiritual people have long known, a story does not have to be factual to be true. You know when a story contains truth. But you may need a good dose of patience to stick with inveterate storytellers who cannot stop regaling you with their raucous tales.

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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.