random ramblings

ayat-ayat Cinta (literal translation: Verses of Love) — youtube link to part1

I found this movie accidentally on youtube the other day. After a quick Google to read what it’s about, I decided to watch it. I read that this movie broke the box office record in Indonesia. The official genre of this movie is actually religious; it’s an Islamic love story

So I gave it a try (in youtube it’s divided into 13 parts), it was already very late but I kept watching it until the end, I think until 2AM :p because it’s good !! I liked it! I think it’s one of the best Indonesian movies I’ve seen. The 2 main actresses are so pretty.

It’s a novel adaptation and as usual fans of the novel seem to not like it because they have really high expectation and kept comparing the movie to the novel. Just like Harry Potter movies, I love everyone of them, but I know people who read the books think the movies didn’t live up the the novels.

The one thing that bothered me though, is the fact that they all speak Indonesian in the movie. Some conversations were started in Arabic (first few sentences), and then usually they continue speaking in Indonesian.. I think that’s supposed to mean that they’re conversing in Arabic???? I don’t know if that’s the intention, it’s just my interpretation.. isn’t it unrealistic for the Egyptian characters to be able to speak Indonesian fluently ?? I read some viewer comments on youtube that said the actors’ Arabic were really bad hahahaha… I guess that would disturb the enjoyment of the movie for people who actually understand Arabic. Lucky for me that I don’t. I can imagine if they made this movie in Chinese and have lots of Chinese conversations in them; Bad pronunciations (by the characters that are supposedly native speakers) would totally ruin the movie for me.

Anyways… here’s the music video of the OST… I like the song

I also found the electronic version of the novel..  I might read it this weekend, hopefully it doesn’t have too much Arabic