Lemantun, Short Movie About Wardrobes and Family Heritage

The cinema is one of the places that I haven’t visited for a long time. The virtual world era does take us one step closer to enjoying a movie. Short films are my alternative to keeping up with the world of cinema. And Lemantun, a short film about the closet and the family heritage, captivated my heart even when I first knew him.

TV Show

Not including movie freaks, to be honest, I’m not too up-to-date about the latest movie that is being aired even though I used to read and watch television, so ‘me time’ is perfect. In the 90s, television still presented many movies in various genres; watching movies became the way I spent time.

The detective series and various sitcoms are my favorite shows. Maybe Menong's friend can guess what my age range is when the film series MacGyver, X-Files, and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles became my friend when I was a teenager. Over time, when my younger siblings began to introduce Japanese comics, I became a loyal fan of the detective series Conan and Samurai X.

While working and living as a boarding boy, TV at home was only turned on in the lead-up to the maghrib and extinguished bada isya because I didn’t really like TV shows that began to shift into soap operas full of dramas or music performances that took hours. In addition to Retirement Thumbs, there are no more TV shows that I watch, so I decided to subscribe to cable TV, which of course presents more choices of events.

Detective movies, action movies (but not raw movies that hit you), and comedy-drama so friends in their spare time. In addition to restoring English skills, many things can be obtained from science channels such as Nat Geo, tech storms, and news from various countries. But of course, because it is relatively uncensored, younger siblings who are still under the age of 18 must always be under surveillance when watching subscription TV.

Short Film

After getting married, Zauji and I almost never watched TV at all. The TV in the room is only a display and is more often used as a PC screen to work on many things.

YouTube channels and Disney Hotstar streaming services are quality time fillers when we males go everywhere. With just one account, we can explore the foreign and local hit movies that we often watch both.

At other times, I also spend more time adventuring on the Instagram homepage. The search menu is my favorite because I can find a variety of news, including gossip and updates that include the entertainment world.

Because they rarely update the latest movies that are being aired, snippets of movies on Instagram timelines are my main reference source if you want to watch big screen movies or other series films, including short films.

Initially, I thought the short film only revolved around a serious theme devoted to following the film event at the international level. A short film or short movie is a short-lived film. There is no standard maximum duration of a short film because the duration of each short film will be different depending on the event to be followed, such as 40 minutes for the Academy Award, 60 minutes for the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 15 minutes for the De Cannes Festival, and 59 minutes for the Indonesian Film Festival.

Short film content is not original but must be prepared to the maximum to remain dense and straightforward even though it is presented in a short duration. Sinead Indonesia itself has inscribed various achievements in the international awards scene. One of the short films that earned the Official Selection World Cinema Masterdam in 2019 is titled ‘Tilik’.

The film tells the story of the chatter of the village women on a truck that drove to a hospital and became the first Indonesian short film that I liked.

Living LDM (Long Distance Marriage) for many years made me like anything that reminds me of the house, including the dialogue of the ‘Tilik’ film spoken in Javanese. A funny conversation between Bu Tejo and Yu Ning seems to be a longing musician. I will have a conversation with Zauji and Mother Zauji. Despite having long lived in West Java, Zauji still uses Javanese in his daily life.

Unsung, I am increasingly in love with a short film by the nation’s children that carries a theme that steals the attention with beautiful visuals that are very worthy of appreciation. Menong friends can watch this short movie on the Youtube platform for free. Many short films have also been awarded, such as Prenjak and Anak Lanang. Not only that, many short films also carry a theme that is ready to make Menong's friends hot and cold, like Grave Torture made by Joko Anwar.

The chants

Lemantun became the second short film I watched seriously. This short film is a clique-themed and simple film that tells the story of a mother who bequeaths a closet to her children of five people. Wregas Bhanuteja's film, which features a director and story writer, was worked on in 2014. The film produced by the Faculty of Film and Television of the Jakarta Institute of Arts has won the best short film award at the XXI Short Film Festival 2015, the best short film in the 2015 Indonesian Film Appreciation, and the best Mayan Cup 2015 Short Film.

This 21-minute film in the mother with a conversation in Javanese in a simple living room between a mother (Tatik Wardiono) and her five children, Eko (Den Baguse Ngarsa), Dwi (Agoes Kencrot), Tri (Freddy Rotterdam), Yuni (Tytik Renggani), and Anto (Triyanto Hapsoro). The mother gathered all her children to convey a purpose that is to distribute the inheritance of the property owned by the mother, namely the closet. The cabinets that are shared are not indiscriminate cabinets, but cabinets that have deep meaning and history because each cupboard is purchased by the mother at the birth of each child.

Through a lottery made of a piece of calendar paper, each child got a part of a cupboard according to the number he got. The story rolls around; the new owner starts to search and mark his closets. Except for Tri, the four children have indeed succeeded with various professions that are cultivated, such as officials, businessmen, and doctors. Every child reminisces about childhood memories related to cabinets.

Before long, the mother gave the order that the closet should be immediately issued by the new owner that afternoon. All were surprised, especially the mother, who gave the ultimatum to give a fine of Rp. 100,000 per day when the closet is still not transported.

All were busy looking for transportation to avoid fines, as conveyed by the mother. One by one, the cupboards went to be taken by every child. Tri, as the only child who lives with the mother, helps her brother and sister to immediately complete the task regardless of her own closet that still does not move in her place. Not only that, but Tri also prepares a drink and intends to provide the gasoline he sells for the brother.

When finished, the four returned to the city with their respective cabinets. There is still Tri, who started trying to move the closet. The Lemantun screen is closed with Tri, who is still faithfully accompanying the mother, and finally Tri uses a closet as a place to store gasoline sales.

The Story of a War by a Close Warro

In Javanese, lemantun means cabinet. I love the film inspired by the original story of the Wregas Bhanureja family because it looks natural with the acting of the cast that feels flowing. Seeing Tri emphasized as a central figure, I think I also feel how to be the only child who lives with parents, taking care of parents as well as entertaining the brothers who come to visit.

"Tri, eling loh, mother ki wi elder, ojo added a burden of mind."

“Tri, remember, the mother is old; don’t add to the mind.”

With simple visualization, it feels like we are emotionally carried away by what each Lemantun character conveys. Closets that seem special are not special; they turn out to be full of meaning. Although I do not understand the side of cinematography displayed for me. Lemantun becomes a symbolic embodiment of a family, parents, children, and the meaning of a legacy.

How does a mother with children who almost all have a successful life? How does a child who is worldly unsuccessful, does not have a house, and hits his mother's house, unmarried, only working with selling gasoline, always position himself to sit down and style that is more often grimacing and down?

The closet as a symbol of the mother’s affection for her children becomes meaningless when the child prefers to move the closet rather than having to pay the fine requested by the mother. Not only that, in the city, the legacy cabinet given by the mother is nothing that is used, even just stored or sold. Unlike Tri, despite not having an education like his other siblings, he prefers to take care of the needs of his brother and sister and of his mother. Tri, with his stained clothes, turned out to have a wide amount of heart.

More hooked, I chose to give a review of Lemantun, a short film about this cupfare and family heritage. In an interview session, Wregas Bhanureja revealed the closet being a symbol of the uterus. How the uterus is taken care of wholeheartedly as a form of affection and is not wasted when we grow up.