Name : Virel Manuel
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MONTASE NOVEL REVIEW
MONTASE
Windry Ramadhina, Romance, Love
This book was published in 2012 with its publisher
Gagas Media. This book has about 360 pages. Montase teaches us about how we
should appreciate the life we have. This book describes what it is like to
living with dying. Live together with a deadly disease that is very difficult
to cure and can kill us at any time. The author, Windry Ramadhina, born and
lives in Jakarta, she works as a freelance architect and founded her own design
agency. She started writing fiction in mid 2007 at kemudian.com
If she is compared to other novel writers, I think she
is one of the most unusual writers. She is able to provide information that is
packaged in implicit ways.
This book also provides some interesting quotes. Those
are:
·
"Women cannot be asked to think
clearly when it comes to men. In a situation like this, their heads are filled
with a pink blur called dopamine which poisoning their gray cells with all
kinds of absurd romantic ideas. "
·
“Beauty of Sakura is short lived, but this
what makes it is precious. Sakura is a trait of life that is not eternal.
"
·
“So don't waste time on something we don't
want.”
·
“The Sakura trees bloom once a year.
Prospective flowers began to appear since mid-January, but will only bloom in
early April. The blossoms that have developed last for one to two weeks, then
fall and the petals are carried away by the wind. Sakura's beauty is short
lived, but because of that she is precious. Sakura is a trait of life that is
not eternal."
This book contains a lot of interesting things about
love, self-reflection, and appreciating life. This book teaches me to
appreciate life more. And also this book makes me even more interested in the
world of film. This book should be read thoroughly and if you as a reader are
interested in this book, you must pay attention to every detail of the message
and other interesting things. The author uses a very good method of grabbing
the reader's attention. At first it seems normal. But in the middle until the
end of the story she makes it even more interesting. She uses memorable and
meaningful dialogue. The title of this book makes us completely unable to guess
what the book's story is about. This is what sometimes makes readers curious. The
depiction of each character is also made with an interesting background, such
as the Rayyi character who was forced by his father to study in a major he
didn't like, and the character Haru Enumoto who had a deadly disease.
Montase, means cinematography, which means a
combination of photography and image sequencing techniques. The montage itself
according to KBBI (Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia) is a sequence of images
produced in a film to illustrate related ideas. Yes!! This novel is about
cinematography. The main character in this novel is a young man named Rayyi who
studies at IKJ (Jakarta Arts Institute). He is eager to become a professional
filmmaker in documentary films while his father, a renowned producer, forces
his only child to follow in his father's footsteps to become a commercial film
producer.
I felt satisfied when I finished reading this novel.
The writer comes with the knowledge that he inserts in his novel so that his
writing becomes full and meaningful, not only about dim novels. Here, I know a
lot about the world of documentary cinematography. I feel that the knowledge
shared by Windry is quite useful. There is a lot of knowledge about types of
cameras, lenses, and shooting techniques for documentary films such as double
exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, split screens, extreme
close-ups, and so on.
Besides that, the most important thing is a message
that I get from this novel, which is about the face of the world of Indonesian
cinema today. Indeed, it is now very rare to find young filmmakers who are
dealing with documentaries, the main factor being that documentaries don't make
much money. Money is the main problem faced by filmmakers apart from the fact
that the Indonesian market is still unable to accept weighty films. They prefer
to watch horror, comedy, or romance films that in my opinion the script is
unclear and has no message in it. Hopefully anyone who reads this novel
realizes that we as viewers must also be selective in choosing films and always
support quality Indonesian films.
The writer has experience in writing or creating
novels. Her books that have also been successful in the market are Angel In The
Rain, Last Forever, Memories, Walking After You, Orange, and many more. All of
her works are well-known for their stories that have weight and contain
information that is unknown to the common man. She always inserts knowledge
that is rarely known by many people, even though the reader may not realize of
it.
This book is very suitable for reading by teenagers,
because the storyline given is very suitable with the way of thinking of
teenagers. Many teenagers have the same problem with Rayyi characters. Going to
an unwanted major and feeling pressured in studying. There are also many teenagers
who do not live less like smoking, drunkenness, and even taking drugs. Well,
this story can be a lesson for teenagers who have bad lives and don't
appreciate life.
The respect for parents is also in this story. The
character of Haru Enomoto is described as a person who always obedient to her
parents. Not only Rayyi that study in a major that he didn't like, Haru Enomoto
was the same. But the difference with Rayyi is, Haru Enomoto is a person who
always be obedient to her parents who finally takes the college major her
parents want. Meanwhile Rayyi was always angry and he don’t like his father who
forced him to take the college majors which he didn't like.
The character of Haru Enomoto is a cheerful person
even though she has a deadly disease. Meanwhile Rayyi is a character who is
always gloomy even though he has a life that many people crave. Rayyi is the
son of a successful and wealthy person who is different from the character of Haru
Enomoto.
Another unique story is about the differences in
habits between Japanese and Indonesian which are implicitly discussed in this
story. This was proven when Rayyi and Haru wanted to go to the museum, Haru
preferred to walk even though the distance from where they were was very far
from the museum they wanted to go to. In this section, Rayyi finally complies
to walk even though he is very upset.
The differences in personality that teach each other
new things are also unique and interesting things to tell in this story. Rayyi
is a lazy person and a little quiet. Meanwhile Haru Enomoto is a very diligent,
polite, and very active girl. This was proven when Rayyi and Haru Enomoto met.
Just then Haru Enomoto arrived in such a hurry that she dropped all her stuffs
as she puts his pencil case and bag on the table. At that time, Rayyi thought
Haru Enomoto was a strange and reckless person.
This story also has a good message for unfriendly
person. Rayyi is described as a person who has few friends. While Haru Enomoto
is a student who from abroad, but she is able to make friends and get along
well with many people even including Rayyi who is a quiet person. It was Haru
Enomo who had turned Rayyi into a kinder and more open person. Haru Enomoto has
taught Rayyi many things, such as being more respectful and polite to parents,
teaching Rayyi to be more diligent, and she even helped Rayyi when Rayyi was in
trouble with his college problems.
The difference between college students in Japan and
in Indonesia has also been told several times in this story. One of them was
when Rayyi was in trouble in his studies, and he was helped by his close
friends including Haru Enomoto, Haru Enomoto said that in Japan, all students
compete fiercely. Nobody wants to help each other when their friend is in
trouble. This is totally different from in Indonesia where students still like
to help each other and even want to give cheating to their friends. This made
Rayyi laugh and said that if he had studied in Japan, he would have been
expelled because of the many problems he had and no one that wanted to help
him.
The joy of a quiet person who has a friend who has
taught him many things and changed him a lot is also implicit in this story.
Rayyi is described as a more open person and often feels happier when he is
with Haru Enomoto. Even Rayyi, at the first who always felt uncomfortable with
Haru Enomoto, became more enjoy when he with Haru Enomoto. He even often sent
emails to Haru Enomoto at the last moments of Haru Enomoto's life in Japan. He
really hopes that Haru Enomoto can be recover soon and become his lover
forever, even though he also knew that Haru Enomoto's life doesn't seem like
much longer. Haru Enomoto also had a chance to feel what it was like to have a
lover before she died. In the last moments of her life, she could only read the
email from Rayyi without being able to reply. This teaches us how precious life
is.
I highly recommend this book for those of you who are
interested in a story about love that is different from the usual. You will not
be disappointed after reading this book. Very interesting story. This book also
sometimes presents some very interesting plot twists.
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