Yasmin Ahmad - Sepet AKA Chinese Eye (2004)

Plot:
Because of their shared love for Wong Kar-Wai's movies, a 19-year-old Chinese VCD seller dude and a 16-year-old Malay schoolgirl in Ipoh fall in love. She doesn't try to convert him. Instead, they talk about films and poetry.

48th S.F. International Film Festival:
— Roger Garcia
It's rare to find a woman filmmaker in Muslim society, and even rarer when she is an outspoken talent unafraid of controversy. In her second film, Yasmin Ahmad tells a story of interracial teenage love, between Chinese Jason, a peddler of pirated videos, and Orked, a Malay schoolgirl who likes Hong Kong movies. Sepet is Malay for “single eyelid” but pejoratively it means “slit eyes.” From this provocative title the film penetrates stereotypes of race and narrative to explore the complexities of a multiracial society that has institutionalized the superiority of the Malay race and Islamic religion. The film’s opening moves from Sam Hui’s yearning Cantopop song to Jason reading Indian poet Tagore’s work in Chinese translation to his Peranakan (mixed Malay-Chinese descendant) mother.

This frames the multi-Asian strands of Malaysian society, film tradition and modernity, the Malay-Chinese-Indian pyramid, and the purity and impurity of culture all set within a classic maternal metaphor.In this context, Ahmad’s
gentle and engaging tale of doomed love assumes both political and personal dimensions. In its own subtle way, it stands as a signal work both of the new Malaysian independent cinema and as a heartfelt plea for tolerance.











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