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Title: Abysmal, but fun for Pak John students
Review: This movie is amateurish and awful but not cheezy enough to be bad fun... it's just terrible. How the American director can be permitted to use a blurb describing himself as some sort of Indonesian avant-garde filmmaker is beyond me. You want bad Indonesian fun? Check out Lady Terminator or Mystics of Bali on dvd. You want high quality subtitled films? Look at what's available from Between Three Worlds Video at Monash University. This movie though is a real dog.There is one redeeming feature: the revelatory acting of Pak John Wolff, America's most influential Indonesian language teacher. I watched the movie with a gang of former Cornellians, Indonesians and Americans. We could barely stand to watch the thing (and ended up fast-forwarding a bit) but whenever Pak John appeared, as a colonial Dutch ghost, we were doubled over laughing.So muridnya Pak John, nontonlah. Everyone else: AVOID!
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