Creole-Chinese, Designer Style
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
Set in the Dutch Indies from the 1930s to the 1950s, this is a big-budget film with grand ambitions. Alas, good research and colorful costumes were not enough to transport the audience to the past.
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The scene takes place in Batavia, during rainy season in 1944. A boat smuggling weapons from Siam sails into the Sunda Kelapa Harbor. Tan Peng Lian, a Chinese mer-chant from Semarang, Central Java, gets off the boat and dramatically staggers, then falls on his knees to kiss the earth. Gratitude is written all over his face: "Betawi, aku wis mulih (Batavia, I've come home)." That is one of the last scenes in the film Ca Bau Kan, a mai
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