Katreena Binti Mohd Fozi

This film’s portrayal of the fleetingness of life in its essence is brilliant in the most personal way. It delves deep into the conformity of life, of society that reaches so far into our heads even in our own education system that force us to endure the repetitive routine of life. I came into this film expecting pseudo intellectualism and mocking the pretentiousness of it all after, and emerged enlightened. My two dimensional perspective expanded by tenfold, and there is no doubt that this is one of the best films I’ve ever seen. It evoked feeling, from its raw approach to life down to its heartfelt depiction of friendship and longing for freedom. Each character in this film came out changed, they found themselves and lost that little smidge of naïveté in order to voice out the prisoner inside them that yearns to be free. It started out as a slow paced film with a boring premise, but finally it pricked the corners of my eyes and sprinkled dust into them to reduce me to a crying mess towards the end. It bestowed me sorrow, it made me smile and it gave poetry new meaning. Carpe Diem, indeed.