Missing Home

This movie is not just about family conflict. It's also about the urge to preserving traditional culture in modern era, where people have their own desires which may contradict with the culture. It's a story most family could relate to. For the drama, it's met my expectation, it successfully makes me cry. I was skeptical with the comedy, I always find comedy in movies are cringe. But this one is not, the comedy feels like it's just happened naturally. Even though this movie is more focused on the drama, sometimes I laughed at the funny scenes. There's a lot of Bataknese culture showed in this movie. The beautiful views of Toba Lake made this movie even more better. I enjoyed it a lot. Really a worth try!

I'm a little confused about this film, whether it falls into the comedy or drama film genre, because in this film it pays more attention to the plot and I'm confused about where the comedy lies. Maybe if judged in terms of drama flow, this film can be appreciated because the plot that is presented is like a continuous drama plot. But if judged because this film is labelled a comedy film, I don't know where the location of the jokes that should be brought up, maybe this film is a little worse than "somewhat laen". Because this film is too focused on the author's customs and is more like introducing Batak culture to the audience. The visuals of this film are a little strange because of the dark theme, maybe there are some comedy films that use this viusal but in this film it just doesn't fit. 6/10.