Gubra

Gubra (anxiety) is a film that by its own and setting its own standard among it predecessor, "Rabun" and "Sepet". If you think that Yasmin Ahmad latest offering is as light as Sepet, please leave those thought behind the door. Unlike Sepet, Gubra tells 2 different stories. First story in this movie tell us the story of Orked's family seven years after Jason and the second, tell us about muezzin and his tiny village community. Two different stories and yet it has universal theme; love, hurt and forgiveness.

In Orked's tale, she has gotten over Jason and married to older man, Arif, who love her to deep down of his heart. Orked's family affair rocked down when Pak Atan was ill and has to be hospitalized. At the hospital, Orked met with Alan, Jason's elder brother. Orked and Alan immediately formed unlikely friendship as Alan became Orked path to Jason's past. They shared all the old time memories. One question raised when Alan mentioning that Jason's phone was ringing when he was lying motionless on the road. In Sepet, we remembered that someone answered the phone. But who? Anyway, you can see in Orked's eyes that she still has not gotten Jason, at least no to her heart. Things took more serious for Orked as her loving husband seeing someone else. In muezzin story took different angle. Pak Bilal lead his community which consist of two prostitutes, Kiah, who constantly abused by her regular client, and Temah, whose son in entering Primary One and she suffering from incurable illness. For the rest on how the story goes, grab your seat at the cinema.

Yasmin Ahmad gathered the bulk of Sepet cast with addition to Adlin Aman Ramlie and Alan Yun. We get to know each character even more in this movie as it explore each character relationship with each other.

While the movie started lightly off, half way it deteriorates into a web of human emotion that one can't imaginable. This movie will make you laugh and the same time will make you cry when you realized that afterall we all are different from each other.

p/s: Do not leave the theatre until the credit have rolled. Catch the surprise ending!

The Cast: Sharifah Amani, Adlin Aman Ramlie, Ida Nerina, Harith Iskandar, Adibah Noor, Ng Choo Seng, Alan Yun

Director: Yasmin Ahmad

Rating: 4 out of 5