INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT (GENRE:RELIGION)
NUR KASIH THE MOVIE - MOVIE ANALYSIS
By Asmahani Hussin
Movie in genre of religion or specifically Islamic, is a common
genre in Malaysia. However, it’s not easy to find a good movie with this genre.
There are only a few of movie that received great response from Malaysia movies
viewer. Usually auteur in Malaysia prefer to make hybrid genre when it comes to
Islamic genre. Genre that will combine with this genre is horror, romantic and
sometimes comedy. Islamic movie in Malaysia are Munafik 1, Munafik 2, Nur Kasih
The Movie, Gubra, Syurga Cinta, 7 Petala Cinta, and many more. Honestly,
Malaysian auteur does come out with lots of Islamic genre but they prefer to
make it as a telemovie instead of movie. It is the usual pattern that the
auteur of Malaysia done. It also can be seen clearly that the quality of
Islamic genre in telemovie is much better that movie. In this analysis, Nur
Kasih The Movie are chosen as the movie to be analyze as it is one of the big
hit Islamic movie in Malaysia.
Nur Kasih The
Movie (2011) is a movie that made after the drama series was a big hit in
Malaysia. Due to the acceptance of Malaysia for the Nur Kasih in drama version,
the production decided to make it into the movie version as the continuous from
the drama. The movie is about a couple that deal with life with the guidance of
religions. Conflict that they had to deal such as losing wife, sick husband,
abortion, people unfair judgement and many more gave a big impact to the
audience and audience received the moral that the movie tried to deliver. This
movie received 7 awards and have 19 million viewers. The main casts for this
movie are Tiz Zaqyah (Nur Aminah), Remy Ishak (Adam) and Fizz Fairuz (Aidil)
and directed by Khabir Bhatia. Nur Aminah is an obedient wife that love and
loyal to his husband. She willing to do anything to make sure his husband happy
and sacrifice for him. Adam is a character of a husband that love his wife but
having health complication as he once been shot by a gun on his chest and
almost died. Aidil is Adam’s brother, that just lost his wife but always be
there for Aidil and Nur Aminah. Other character that act as comic relief such
as Mamat (Muniff Isa) one of resident in Adam’s shelter, Mariam (Mia Sara)
Aidil’s daughter and Ilyas (Mohad Ilyas) Aidil’s son.
This movie is hybrid
genre between religion, romantic and family oriented. We could see this movie
keep saying about the purpose of life as Muslim, living our life as a Muslim
and practicing Muslim lifestyle such as pray, reading Al-Quran, and went to
Madinah. Romantic element can be seen through the scene between Nur Aminah dan
Adam that always telling each other how they love and want each other to be
happy. The scene where Adam decide to went to the dessert where Adam and Nur Aminah
were in an accident between train and a lorry can be seen as romantic as Adam
willing to go there just to find Nur Aminah’s rings. This show how strong Adam’s
love towards Nur Aminah. Family oriented can be seen by the willing of Aidil
helping Nur Aminah to find Adam as he lost for several days while searching for
Nur Aminah’s rings. He also helps Nur Aminah and Adam to take care Adam’s
shelter while Adam was not available due to his health condition.
This movie is
about a wife that really love his husband and willing to sacrifice everything
to make sure his husband could live and having a happy life with her. The genre
is not repetitive as the scene in the movie are not at the same place. There are
scenes at the paddy field, dessert, hospital, hotel, Aidil’s house, Adam’s
house, village house and many more. Audience could receive their expectation towards
the movie as it is predictable. We could detect the genre without even have to
think hard about it. Audience will expect that there are a few conflict or
obstacle that need to be done for the character and able to went through the
obstacle successfully. Since this movie is a religion movie, audience expect
that this movie will be sad as there are many incidents happened. For example,
the scene where Mamat was beat to death in front of Aidil really breaks our
heart as we know Mamat is such a good boy. Audience get more upset after
knowing that Mamat has volunteer to donate his organ to Adam as he knows that
Adam sick. We can consider Aidil as the hero for this movie and he represent
hero as he does a lot to help people around him. For example, he helps Nur
Aminah to find Adam at the dessert and help Adam to run his shelter while he is
sick. There is no villain in this movie but have a small character that do
something bad to Mamat which is Jamal (Syafie Naswip) who has killed Mamat
using a steel pipe as Mamat disturb him from hitting Aidil. However, I still
not consider Jamal as the villain in this movie as he doesn’t really show up much.
Analyze the movie
through sociocultural. Sociocultural involving or relating both social and cultural factors.
There are a few aspects that we could analyses in sociocultural such as role,
stereotypes, ethnicity and social class. Role has been characterized by rules and
norms to defined positions and patterns of behaviour. Sociological analysis explores about the role and meaning conveyed
through them on identity, power and status. There are several roles in this
movie such as social role, occupational roles and family role. Social role that
been brought by this movie is family as the movie is family oriented so the
movie highlight about the life of a family. Occupational roles are architect
where Nur Aminah work as architect to support her husband medication fee and
her pregnancy, teacher as Aidil’s occupation and volunteer where Adam build a
building for kids from the streets so they can receive education and know a lot
more about Islam. Next is family role. The movie shows the role of husband,
wife, brother in-law, mother, father and children. Each of everyone have their
own role that they need to play. Sociocultural also analyze in terms of
stereotype. Stereotype is the way people judge a person or a group of persons
in oversimplifying and
overgeneralising features and signs. Positive stereotype that this movie has is
good manner of Ustaz that will always help people to seek for knowledge that we
can see in the scene where Aidil willing to take over Adam position to teach
the streets children regarding where they come as he want to spread knowledge
to them and they deserve it while the negative stereotype in this movie is streets
kid attitude. The stereotype that has been fed in the society where people that
didn’t follow Islamic rules like covering aurah and having social distance
between male and female will do something bad and can turn into a bad person
and don’t deserve to received education as they have done something haram or
breaking the law of Islam has been shows in this movie through a scene where
Adam invite one Ustaz to teach the kids about fasting but the Ustaz refused to
teach them as the kids didn’t cover their aurah and mix between male and
female. Sociocultural can be seen through ethnicity. Ethnicity assumes cultural
characteristics for group or people. The ethnicity that been potray in this
film is Malay and Arabic. Malay ethnicity can be seen through the village
environment. The wooden house owned by Adam and Aidil family shows that they
are Malay. Next is when Adam accident at the dessert and received help from
Hassan, a local boy. The scene shows that Hassan is an Arabic as he lives at
the location. We also could see by the way Hassan and his family wear robes,
purdah and turban. Social class also is one of sociocultural aspect. Different social structures are composed of
groups of people in society. The social class that can be seen
in this film is the pious people and streets children. People look down upon
the pious while they look down street children.
Next, we analyze
Nur Kasih The Movie through three approaches. The three approaches are aesthetic,
ritual and ideological. To see it clearly, we will differentiate the movie with
movie from Indonesia, Ayat-Ayat Cinta (2008) directed by Hanung Bramantyo. Ayat-Ayat
Cinta is a famous movie with Islamic genre in Indonesia and Malaysia. The storyline
is different however they still have common things between each other. Aesthetic
can be known as a combination of many types of genre or we also know it as
hybrid genre. Both of this movie have hybrid genre. As mentioned earlier, Nur
Kasih The Movie genre is Islamic, romantic and family oriented. Same goes to Ayat-Ayat
Cinta that also bring genre Islamic and romantic. However, the Islamic content
in Ayat-Ayat Cinta are deeper compared to Nur Kasih The Movie. Ayat-Ayat Cinta
potray more Islamic element such as communicate with the cast in Arabic, talk
about Islamic issues, the movie set in Cairo and present to people about our
Prophet Muhammad ﷺ sunnah
of having more than one wife. While in Nur Kasih The Movie, the Islamic element
are little compared to Ayat-Ayat Cinta. In Nur Kasih The Movie also have script
in Arabic but it wasn’t for the main cast but for the extra which means the script
is so little. Nur Kasih The Movie only potray Islamic value that have in Malay
society so that is the reason why we can’t se much of Islamic element. Next is
ritual. Ritual is a complex storyline narration and form of cultural value. We
could see the family value in Nur Kasih The Movie in the scene where Aidil
willing to help his family member in any situation. In Ayat-Ayat Cinta, we can
see the family value through the harmony between Fahri’s (Fedi Nuril) wives
that able to communicate in peace without having quarrel between each other
even though deep inside both of them were in pain. Next is ideological. Both
movies bring the idea of gesellschaft as both of them were happened in a modern
life. In Ayat-Ayat Cinta, the movie clearly was happened in modern life where
it’s already has a lot of big building, technology and many transportations. Same
goes to Nur Kasih The Movie. As we can see, there are not a lot of different
between Malaysian movie and Indonesian movie. However, they way Indonesian
deliver their idea through the movie are way interesting.
Northrop Frye
believe that plot type associate with season. Like spring represent for romance,
summer for comedies, autumn for tragedy and winter for ironic literature. I
agree with Northrop Frye however this movie doesn’t associate with his theory. Even
the movie has the element of romance, but we can’t see the relation between the
vibe of spring with romance in this movie. The movie looks like having winter and
summer vibe, but it was in genre of Islamic and romance. It doesn’t have a
pinch of comedies and ironic literature.
The meaning of
text depends on who’s the receiver. This is because every people interpret in
different way so the message that they received doesn’t have 100% probability
same. In the scene where Mamat told Adam that the world is not fair because
Allah take good people first instead of bad people as he wants Allah to take
him first because he believes that he is not a good person. Adam counter him by
saying that Mamat is not a bad person but a good one. Audience might think that
Mamat will repent after visiting Adam, but it wasn’t just that. Mamat decide to
donor his organ to Adam as he want to be a good person. So, we can see here, we
don’t interpret message in the same way.
A movie can’t
succeed without its auteur. Khabir Bhatia prefer to make romantic movies so we
can see from his artwork there are a lot of romance that will make audience love
to watch it. He also prefers to make a movie that relate to the society. We can
see in this movie, Khabir Bhatia serve the audience movie that relate with the
society which is life of Malay Muslim, and family life. In terms of technical,
we can’t detect Khabir Bhatia artwork as his artwork are different according to
time.
This movie has a really
good cinematography. The shot, the editing, the music score and the sound are
totally awesome. There is no awkward editing detected in this movie and we
could see how smooth the editing has been done. The shots taken in the movie are
impressive where all of the scenes were shoot in the suitable shot. As I
observe, there are a lot of wide shot which I assume this to make audience alert
and understand of where the location is. The cinematography seems a bit dark or
more likely to have cold temperature. This help the audience to feels the tense
that happened in the movie and make the audience stay focus on what is going to
happened. This movie also has a really good soundtrack playlist as the music
director is Hafiz Hamidun, a talented musician in Malaysia. All of this can be
proven as this movie received six awards in cinematography and one award for
music soundtrack.
In conclusion,
this movie is one of the best Islamic movies that Malaysia has produce. The storyline,
the cast, the cinematography and other aspect of this movie is really great.
Even though this movie is a bit old but it still relevant for audience to watch
and relate to it in this current situation. Malaysia need to produce more
quality Islamic movies as it is near to the society. Nur Kasih The Movie is the
best example for the existing auteur or new auteur to produce Islamic movie and
improvise so it will match with Malaysian movies taste.
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