
When Ros is positive for pregnancy, Tiar decides to go to Jakarta with friends Sakka and Dodi to look for work as well as look for relatives who are said to be rich in Jakarta to help the debt-ridden environment. They stray to Bandung and meet a young girl named Ayana who also wants to go to Jakarta. Tiar's loyalty is tested when she has to get involved in Ayana's personal problems. Meanwhile, Ros experiences events that Tiar never imagined.
Tara Thorne’s film is equal parts emotional and comedic, illustrating the beauty and the pain of long term relationships.
An aspect of She-Ra that I find refreshing is even though a large portion of the cast is on the LGBTQ+ Spectrum, being gay is never mentioned. While this might initially sound like a negative thing, in the show’s land of Etheria being on the gay spectrum is shown to be so common and normalized that straight isn’t the default. As much as there is to appreciate about narratives revolving around the obstacles that may come from being non-heteronormative, it’s nice to get immersed in a world where no one bats an eye at all to any sort of differing identity.
The film is a simple love story reminiscent of stories like The Notebook released in 2004. Sylvie and Robert are rarely actually together in the film, however; time and circumstance keep them away from each other, and the audience waits with bated breath to see them find one another over and over.
It’s hard to capture the emotions and thoughts of a character just from a few shots, but Oscar-nominee composer Micachu's haunting melodies prove otherwise in 'Jackie'.