Ekskul

Title : Ekskul
Starring : Ramon Y. Tungka, Indra Basco,
Meta Yunatria, Sheila Marcia
Director : Nayato Fio Nuala
Genre : Drama
Studio : PT Indika Cipta Media

Ekskul, the movie which is succesfully taken 4 awards in Indonesian Film Festival (FFI) has invited some controvesials. From the very beginning of its launching up to its coronation as the best Indonesian movie 2006, ekskul stimulated many critics from movie reviewers. Some of them found that musical settings of this movie plagiarized some musician creations.



However, Nayato as the director of Ekskul, has creatively carried the newly chalenging theme in his third movie after The Soul and Cinta Pertama. He emphasized on family and education issue rather than teenager and love story which is mostly carried out by other directors. Releasing this movie means gambling, according to Nayato, since the Indonesian cinemas are mostly oriented to promote the adolescent’s love stories.
This movie that is produced by PT Indika Cipta Media is inspired from the real life story in which Joshua (Ramon) found himself in both a very unfamiliar family and a presurred social condition in school. His father and mother educated him almost in crude ways. Unfortunately, the harshed manner, bad word, threat, physical, and phsycological intimidations which were habitually executed to him happened not only in his home but also in his school. Being underpresure, Joshua angrily took some of his friend as a hostage few days after he bought and made a raft of a revolver.
The director seems wanted to explore the new technique through this movie. He designed the whole movie by exposing problems almost in every stage. At glance, the reviewer could not be able to isolate an exposition, problem, conflict, and even climax, unless resolution, because he uniquely mixed all these parts.
Nayato began the story directly to the scene where the main character (Joshua) were taking targeted friends as a hostage. By appearing problems from the very beginning, consequently reviewers are forced to find ”causes’ from ”effects” by flowing down through each detail of the plot. In other word, since the structure of the plot of Ekskul is basically derived from ’flasback’ technique, the conflict and complication appeared in the beginning of the story. The first scene performed the strain situation happened in school where polices, school staffs, and students run in crowd because of Joshua’s action in taking hostages. While this action as the main setting performed, a slide telling Joshua’s physical and pyschological intimidation from his parents appeared, then coming back again to the main scene where Joshua made an interaction with the police and his school counselor, then a slide showing his friend’s intimidations to him, and then a particularly similar points coming and going. Even though, the plot was designed probably by breaking the natural structure, Ekskul has a very common resolution where the main character closed the problem soflty. He killed himself.
This plot structure is particularly used to help audience getting the main problem without giving any exposition. Both problem and conflict also occurred almost in line to proof that this movie is able to do some reformulation of the plot and also to give some surprises and suspense. Reformulation here is aimed to put something new in the way people shares ideas, in this case, the director’s ideas.
Being known that the good movie reflects the good idea. The good idea does not always means big things. All movies start with an idea that normally and gradually share certain messages. Ekskul tried to offer relativelly an old issue but still can possibly contribute to overcome social education problems such that were ilustrated in this movie.
Ekskul where the couple of Indra Brasco and Mona Ratuliu participated in was accordingly purposed to tell parents especially to be strictly wise and carefull in educating their children. Being wise can explicitely be meant giving them an apropriate treatment to every behaviour comes up from them. Simply saying that the most important thing to be implemented to children, especially in the period of adolescent is to be a good model. What have been ilustrated in this movie was that there were no good models given to Joshua unless intimidation that significantly influenced to his emotional development. The creator of this movie is accordingly desired to make parents realize on their responsible of taking care their adolescent as good as possible.
The principle of fairness can also be another point which was released in this movie. In accordance to this issue, a part of social life in school that commonly be put a side by school staffs is that controlling students behavior out of class. So far, teachers’ duty is simply transferring knowledge. As what has been proposed by Ekskul that every member of society should be fair to others in order to create a dynamic human civilization.