Matinya Seorang Patriot

Matinya Seorang Patriot

Matinya Seorang Patriot published on 1984 years. Matinya Seorang Patriot is a Malaysian film directed and written by Rahim Razali. Matinya Seorang Patriot produced by Zarul Albakri, Cinematography by Zainal Othman, Art Direction by Nasir Jani and Music by Adnan Abu Hassan. The film Genres are Action, Drama, Romance, Family, and Thriller. Matinya Seorang Patriot is Malay Languages dub. Credited Cast is Noor Kumalasari as Yoharis. Rest of the casts lists are Eman Manan as Saiful, Zarul Albakri as Gary, Azmi Mohamad as Sabri and more casts.

At the beginning, the important politic person passed away. He is a father of five sons, a politic person, martial artist and a businessman. He teach 5 sons malay traditional martial arts. One of his sons named Saiful. Saiful fallen in love with Hanis. However, Saiful's brothers wanted to kill Hanis's family and Hanis's Father employee. Four men wanted to revenge for their father. Power of love change Saiful's mind. Saiful protected Hanis and duels with his four brothers. At the end, four brother arrested by police.

Rahim Razali director able to show traditional Malay Martial Art. The Martial Arts is a part of action film. The Martial Arts is an icon show traditional Malay culture. Rahim Razali is a director used sensitive politic issues to made the film story. The politic happens are very complicated all the time. Politic issues very hard to understand directly. The film told that politic Malay family has many benefit and power. Politic family will be more complicated and loyalty to the particular politic person. The characters cannot stayed normal after the politic businessman passed away. Four of them wanted to revenge and full of hate. These politic issues are few examples and happens in the Malaysia society. 

The mise-en scene is the environment of Kuala Lumpur when 1984 years. The old building and old interior design. The old film techniques cut editing, subtitles, and more editing process are very difficult to achieve the accuracy. The old film times unlike the digital era. The plot in the film are the Malay Traditional Swords, and the Traditional Malay Martial Arts Costume. The characters always hold it or place it with meaningful hearts and emotion. The Hanis's dialog told the audiences Hanis wants her company focus on culture. But, the new manager did not want to focus on culture. He wants to follow the western and modern for the company. Other man's funny dialog helps Hanis argue with the new boss character. The dialog or narrative show how important the culture value to Malaysian. The Malaysian perspective and different point of view look at the character.

In conclusion, Malaysian always very sensitive to politic. The politician also a rich businessman in the film story. Rahim Razali showed the politic family members become criminal because of the powerful person passed away. Rahim Razali also tells us the power of love between Saiful and Hanis. The complicated of the huge company business. The company managers are cunning for the contract. The director Rahim knew the culture and attitude between rich Malay citizen and poor Malay villager.

References :

IMDb (N.D.)
          Matinya Seorang Patriot (1984). Retrieved From
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