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This movie is about everyday life of Raditya dika. He's an everyday Indonesian student, stuying in adelaide, Australia. Mostly the movie is focusing on his long distance relationship with his girlfriend (he called her kebo ~ meaning buffalo, while he's called kambing ~ meaning goat) and how he's failed to cope with his parent's expectation on his study. Played by Raditya Dika himself, I think it's a bold move but who can portray him better than himself? I never read his blog or his book, yet, therefore I could not review how is it compared to the book or the blog. however I think some scene is quite hilarious, touching and as he said 'quotable'. The main weakness of this kind of storytelling is sometimes it's difficult to follow the 'flow' of this movie, because it's obviously taken from a blog, so it's like a sets of short stories woven together.

I watched this movie long time ago on LD (Laser Disc, HUGE disc) during my junior high years. Although it clearly show "part 2" on the cover it didn't put me off. This movie could be seen stand-alone. The weird part is it's English dub (and I'm not in the US). I think they change Shogo Yahagi to Johny Winters. The best part is of course the song "Himitsu Kudasai" and "Lonely Sunset"(thank god they didn't dub them). A few years later I managed to get the part 1, in the form of Robotech: The Movie (yuck), and the original one in Chinese dub. However the two endings made me a little bit confused because they're different. I must admit the robotech ending is much more make sense. Later I found out in IMDb that this is the original ending (check out megazone 23, alternate version in IMDb). Now it seems that ADV is re-releasing this great movie in DVD. I wish I could get the 2004 DVD version (I hope it's in its original language this time).