Pisau Cukur

Yea it was the first Malay movie I watched in the cinema after Jurassic Park 1(!). Yes, that long. Not that I don't support the local talents/industry or what not, but I guess I've fallen into the group of which stereotyping the quality of our local movies today (sad); being lame and...just having poor quality.

HOWEVER, Pisau Cukur gave me a different watching experience altogether (perhaps because I know one of the leading actors in the movie matter-of-factly). But no. Watching Pisau Cukur is like watching any of those American *chick flicks with familiar faces i.e. House Bunny, Legally Blond, Shopaholic, to name a few. Those movies are predictable yet they got you to stay back and watch 'till the end (gotta be biased here 'cos I do watch these kinda movies okay).

Here goes...

Pisau Cukur is a movie about two young girls whose typically dreams are to be married with rich (old) men i.e. Datuk, Tan Sri, etc. Unsatisfied with their mundane lives on land, they went for a holiday cruise instead; one (Bella) hoping to find that "Prince Charming" on the ship and the other one (Intan)...well, she just wanted to go for a holiday cruise (since it was a sponsored vacay). Blah, blah, blah, Bella finally met the prince charming (Datuk Hisham) on the cruise but the brief relationship was disapproved by his sister (Yasmin Yusuff), Bella got frustrated and realized that she doesn't need a rich man for a promising future of her (unborn) children; and at the same time met Faqir, an average Joe on the same ship who's like madly into her after seeing her from a TV show (or something like that). And while all these drama going on, Intan on the other hand was busy assisting a handsome private investigator (Ari) to solve a murder case of the infamous womanizer (Datuk Zakaria) who was also happened to be holiday-ing on the same ship with his family (three wives and two kids). Bleh.

Yea so that's the storyline. Simple, yet I really like the way the filming was done, the blending of the colours, the setting and the casting; for the first time I think they've done it right. Oh it's like Mamma Mia the movie. If Mamma Mia has Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth; Pisau Cukur has Dato Rahim Razali, Khatijah Tan and Eizlan Yussof.

Fun. Go and watch it. It's worth watching. Ignore the judgmental voices in you for once.

*I'm still against using this term to address girls/women