I brought my mom to watch this movie in the theatre last year, and it actually amused me because she cried during the movie and later told me that she could relate to the movie so much and experienced things similar to the characters in the movie.
This movie tells a lot of stories from both the upper and middle-class sides of Indonesia, especially Chinese-Indonesian.
As a Chinese-Indonesian who came from what people call a "wealthy" family, my mom also experienced struggles in the same way as the characters in this movie, especially Natalia and Erwin, who in fact still exist out there for a lot of people and struggle as much as Natalia and Erwin in the movie, or perhaps worse.
This movie teaches me not to judge people from their outside and their past actions because what they did or you experienced in the past doesn't always describe the same for everybody else. It also teaches me not to demand people follow what you want, because what you want doesn't always mean it's the best for them or for you.
This movie tells a lot of stories from both the upper and middle-class sides of Indonesia, especially Chinese-Indonesian.
As a Chinese-Indonesian who came from what people call a "wealthy" family, my mom also experienced struggles in the same way as the characters in this movie, especially Natalia and Erwin, who in fact still exist out there for a lot of people and struggle as much as Natalia and Erwin in the movie, or perhaps worse.
This movie teaches me not to judge people from their outside and their past actions because what they did or you experienced in the past doesn't always describe the same for everybody else. It also teaches me not to demand people follow what you want, because what you want doesn't always mean it's the best for them or for you.