I AM NOT STUPID

Recently, I was at my friend's open house when they played the movie "I AM Not Stupid Too". I have never watched this movie or even the first one, " I am not Stupid". All I know about this movie is that it's Singaporean made.

My friends assured me that we don't need to watch the 1st movie to understand this as it has a different storyline. So, OKlah I watched it and I like that movie. To me, it is an interesting movie that has its own messages. Napalah M'sian movie tak banyak yg ada message, when there are movies with messages they ended up kena hentam, kutuk and basically slaughtered by the media. Macam manalah nak maju movie kiter nie. Anyway, back to the review of the movie.

The movie basically revolves around the life of the youngsters basically. The peer pressure that they face and the pressure from the parents. More often than not we blame these kids for being bullies, involving themselves in social problems etc.. but do they know why? I think our community has one way or another has become what the S'porean movie showed. When the children scored badly in their exams the parents will scold them without understanding why. We have become tooo exam oriented that all we see is their marks. In the movie, one of the teacher said something like " we should look at their talents instead of their flaws". Not all students are bright enough that they could score in each of their subjects, there are those who are talented in arts, sports, technical stuffs and we should look at these skills and talents that they have.

We have become too exam oriented, what we want to know is their marks/ scores. Even primary school children has become exam oriented, kesianlah.. we are robbing the kids life. When we were growing up, all we did while we were in primary school was main. Before coming in to class we played, during recess we played, after school we played no matter is it konda kondi, lompat getah, rounders you name it all we do is play. Now, all the school kids with heavy bags and all they think is exams and study. They have no life, and who's to be blamed?

To me, parents have their own share of being blame as well, they are pressuring their children to excel in their studies and scolding their kids for not performing well. The parents have good intentions, too have/ make a better life for their kids, but they ended up hurting the children. They come home late when the kids are asleep and in the morning they have left to work/ the kids have gone to school. Biler masa jumpa?

There's one scene in the movie where there's a school play, and most of 'family' members who attended were the bibiks. Imagine, silap2 sukan skolah kiter pun penuh ngan Suminah, Markonah, Sumarni etc. because the parents are just too busy to come for their kids sports day. Of course we dont want that, the children ended up being closer to the maids than the parents. But, that's the reality and this is what makes the children/ kids/ teenagers become what they are.

In my opinion, it depends on the family, to me family comes first. Spend time with the kids, see what they are capable of, let them grow. I've learnt one new lesson from the movie, the kid asks his parents, "Do you know what FAMILY means? it means, Father And Mother I Love You". So, think about it.

p/s: HAPPY FATHERS DAY dad!