Watching Mukhsin, a new film by Malaysian filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad, has fired pelts of ricocheting childhood memories inside me, figments of my past which I thought I have long since let slip.
Instead of posting my thoughts about the movie (which I may do so eventually or may already be doing so), I will first like to share with all, some resurrected jigsaws of my past. I shall try to reconstruct the lost pieces as best I can, now
Orked is ten. Mukhsin is thirteen. They are the best of friends.With "Mukhsin", I try to examine one common and uncomfortable human experience: What happens when your very best friend -someone with whom you've been learning to do cool best-friend things like climbing trees, flying kites, riding bicycles and even getting into fights with other kids - starts to develop romantic notions about you?It happened to me before. Both ways.
That is to say, I have had good friends who fell in love with me, and I fell unexpectedly in love with a buddy once.I feel it's an interesting human condition to look at, because I myself have never been able to understand how, sometimes, something as beautiful as Love can threaten to end something else that's just as beautiful - Friendship.
Has this ever happened to you before?
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