Movie Review : 5cm.

5cm is a film directed by Rizal Mantovani and produced by Sunil Soraya. It was loosely adapted from the novel 5cm by Donny Dhirgantoro. 5cm was released on December 12, 2012. This film tells you about dream,love and friendship between five youth. They are Genta (Fedi Nuril), Arial (Deny Sumargo), Zafran (Herjunot Ali), Riani (Raline Shah) and Ian (Igor “Saykoji”).

                The friendship of five youth has been going for 10 years. They always spare their time to hang out together. They have different character, but it doesn’t make a problem to them. Exactly, their different characters make their friendship to be close. In other side, there is a story about love between Genta who love Riani and Zafran Who love Arial’s sister named Arinda. One day the five friends feel surfeited with their relationship that has been going for 10 years. They decided not to meet or communicate each other for 3 months.

                After 3 months the five friends miss each other. They return to meet and celebrate their meeting. Genta invite them to celebrate it by climbing to the Summit of Mount Semeru. There are many challenges an obstacles while their journey to the Summit of Mount Semeru. But they succeeded to confront all of challenge and they achieved the Summit of Mount Semeru which give them beautiful scenery. In that place they hoist the Indonesian flag on August 17. That journey makes the five friends love Indonesian more.

                While the performances of the actors and actresses are attractive. This movie showed a simple story but interesting. This movie is very motivated. The movie taught about reaching dreams and to be strugglers who never give up reaching all of they want. Beside that this movie also shown comedy, it makes the movie interesting more.

                In other side, unlike the original novel, the movie of 5cm has some differences. There are some persons in the novel who aren’t in the movie. There is a scene that not suitable to be watched by children.

                Despite its flaws, 5cm is really an interesting film. It shows interesting story about dream, love, and friendship. This film is very motivated. So, this film is suitable to be watched by all of people above than seventeen years old.