The Review of '1 Liter' Short Film by Chandranita & Sabrina

The Review of 1 Liter Short Film

Reviewers : Chandranita Rakhma D.P. (05)
                    Sabrina Cintania R.           (25)

1 Liter is a 2015 short film directed by Eko Junianto and Tangguh Alfattah as the cameramen. The film casts Prio Pambudi as the student and Mr.Andriyanto as the gasoline seller. The short film won the first place in Pertamina Expo Film Festival 2015. This film takes the theme of honesty and bad effect of cheating. 

The story begins when a student (Prio Pambudi) run out of his gasoline when he goes to school by his motorcycle. Then he goes to the nearest retail gasoline seller (Mr. Andriyanto). But he suprised when he buy Rp 8.500 gasoline and only get half a bottle of gasoline with reason the seller have lost his money because he was ticketed by the police. The student forced to buy the gasoline because he dont want to late goes to school. The next day when the student come back from school, he run out his gasoline again and he dont have another chance except buy a gasoline with the same gasoline seller yesterday. He feel so happy because get a full bottle of gasoline, but the seller sell it with Rp 10.000 price. He suprised with the expensive price, but there is no other gasoline seller so he decide to buy a gasoline and back to home. Until one day after school, he comeback to the same saller to buy gasoline again but the seller still cheated him. The seller give a full bottle of gasoline but the student must pay it Rp 10.000, the same expensive price as yesterday. The student was annoyed and choose to lead the motorcycle to a gasoline station that was farther away to buy a gasoline.

1 Liter Short Film is successed to present a simple story with honesty value that related in everyday life. The film also seriously present images that fit the story eventhough in the process of making the film, The director claimed had obstacles because when shooting at one of the gas stations in Purbalingga, He and his team had been evicted by officers. Thats why there are lacking part of the scene. Even though the dialogue uses Javanese language, but there are Indonesian subtitles that make viewers who don't know Javanese languange easier to understand the story. So this short film is very easy to understand and the moral value about honesty is presented well. Moreover Prio Pambudi showed his good performance in playing role of the student. Also Mr. Andriyanto succeeded to playing gasoline seller. They performance is as great as that in Digugu lan Ditiru, their previous short film. 

Overall, 1 liter is an amazing short film. The movie portrays the honesty value between the potral seller and their customers. The value taught us to have honest behaviour and don't cheating other people. The excellent shoot and good backsound make the film almost perfect. This is a worthwhile and recommended short film to see. 

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