Movie Review | Mili (2022)
Tuesday 3 January 2023
Writers : Alessandro Genovesi, Lisa Nur Sultan
Cast : Margherita Buy, Diana Del Bufalo, Sabrina Impacciatore, Benedetta Porcaroli, Micaela Ramazzotti, Luisa Ranieri, Ornella Vanoni
Production Companies: Wildside, Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia
Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures, Netflix
Genre: Comedy / Crime / Mystery
Running Time : 82 minutes
Release Date : 25 December 2021 (Italy), 28 December 2022
Berlatarkan satu hari sebelum Krismas, Susanna (Diana Del Bufalo) pulang ke rumah keluarga untuk makan bersama. Kepulangannya disambut oleh Maria (Luisa Ranieri), pembantu rumah baru yang cantik, muda dan pandai memasak.
Terkejut dengan lantikan tersebut Susanna bertanya sama ada ibunya, Margherita (Margherita Buy) tidak cemburu namun ibunya kelihatan tenang. Bukannya Margherita tak tahu suaminya, Marcello masih bermain asmara dengan Veronica (Micaela Ramazotti) dan adiknya, Agostina (Sabrina Impacciatore) menggatal dengan suaminya.
Seperti biasa, Maria melakukan rutin pagi dengan menghantar sarapan pagi kepada Marcello di biliknya namun terkejut bukan kepalang bila lelaki tersebut ditikam dengan pisau. Siapa yang membunuh Marcello? Semua orang di dalam rumah tersebut mempunyai motif yang kuat terutamanya Rachele (Ornella Vanoni) yang risau dengan bon miliknya akan dicuri Marcello.
Semua orang perasan masalah kewangan yang menimpa Marcello sejak kebelakangan ini. Tak mungkin polis akan datang ke rumah tersebut kerana salji yang tebal dan hari perayaan. Kereta pula rosak kerana wayar dipotong sementara pintu pagar utama dikunci. Bukan saja Marcello dibunuh malah mereka semua dalam bahaya kerana pembunuh masih berada di situ.
Lepas filem Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) pada awal Disember ditayangkan di Netflix, naskhah komedi misteri dari Itali ini pula menjadi hiburan seisi keluarga di Netflix. Menariknya semua suspek di dalam rumah tersebut adalah wanita dengan pelbagai konflik atau drama yang sengaja dicari. Setiap babak disajikan dengan menarik walaupun berat dengan perbualan dari semua watak. Boleh nampak ada yang lega Marcello mati, ada yang sedih dan ada juga yang risau.
Boleh kata naskhah 7 Women and A Murder menggambarkan realiti sebab bila perempuan stress, makanan adalah penawar untuk hilangkan anxiety. Mustahil kalau tak ada perli dan syak wasangka sesama sendiri tapi ending menarik sebab macam mana pun bergaduh sampai naik tangan tapi tetap berpegang dengan prinsip orang perempuan kena bersatu dan menjaga sesama sendiri dalam dunia yang penuh dengan manipulasi seorang lelaki.
Alessandro Genovesi terlihat kreatif dalam menentukan alur penceritaan yang sentiasa berubah genre sepanjang 82 minit tersebut. Peralihan tersebut langsung tak mengganggu suasana kerana transisi yang perlahan dan halus. Dari menyampah dengan watak Agostina jadi faham kenapa perangai dia macam tu and secretly pray dia dapat nombor Inspektor (Marco Rossetti). Dari menyampah dengan Veronica jadi suka dengan karakter alpha dan bitchy yang dipamerkan.
Sinematografi dari Federico Masiero menggunakan setiap sudut di rumah tersebut dengan kreatif. Semua babak nampak cantik dan gah dengan visual keluarga yang kaya dan elegan. Terpukau tengok kostum beberapa watak dari awal cerita sehingga lah mereka semua berkumpul untuk sesi soal jawab dengan inspektor polis. Music score bersesuaian dengan elemen misteri yang dihidupkan sejak awal.
Tak banyak klu yang diberitahu oleh penulis tapi bila tengok motif setiap watak dan rahsia yang diceritakan dah boleh teka siapa pembunuhnya. Cuma tak pasti sama ada apa yang dia bagitahu kepada semua adalah cerita sebenar ataupun tidak. Kelemahan pada filem ni bila tak ada langsung babak mana-mana watak siasat tempat kejadian ataupun mayat.
Naskhah terbitan Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia ada potensi untuk mempunyai sekuel mahupun prekuel. Spin-off pun cun jugak sebab watak Susanna adalah detektif walaupun emosi dia terganggu bila mempunyai masalah peribadi. All in all, 7 Women and a Murder menarik untuk ditonton santai. Recommended!
1. Team Production +1, 2. Visual +1, 3. Audio +1, 4. Storyline +0.7, 5. Casting +1, 6. Genre +1, 7. Themes +0.7, 8. Editing +0.6, 9. Social Message +1, 10. Personal Thought +0.6 = 8.6/10
1) Choi Hyunsuk
Lovely treasure makers everyone!!! Happy new year~~ 2022 was so happy that I can count it in my hands and I was so grateful that there’s teume in every moment!! There must some difficult parts, but I’m thankful for teume’s generous and unconditional love. 🥰 in a way, it may be like a cloud but we all live with great hope despite that!! And!! I hope teumes are happy, and I hope that everyone who is important to you are also happy! 2023 TREASURE!! We will come back with more growth/developments!! Really like we always say we will show you cool TREASURE! See you soon! Happy New Year to all of our teumes!!! 😍😍😍 ah to my family too
2) Park Jihoon
Our Teume 2022 was able to finish well thanks to all of you. I am always sorry and thank you again. Please take good care of me in 2023. I love you! ❤️
i feel like i wasn’t able to greet you well at the end of 2022. to me, it was a very meaningful year. there were a lot of good things, new things that we attempted and things that we did for the first times. there were a lot of good things, but there were also stuffs that took us a while to get through. there were a lot of sad things as well. i’m not saying this in a bad way, but i think it was a very complicated year. still, thank you so much for helping us wrapping the year well even though it was complicated for everyone. it was a long but short year, but as i go through this and that, all the goods and the bads, you can say it was a year where i had mixed emotions?
our treasure makers too, you guys were the ones with us, feeling happy during our happy times and feeling sad during our hard times. that’s why i hope that 2022 was a really happy year for everyone. and i also hope that only happy things will happen to treasure throughout the entire 2023. you know what i mean, right? you’ve worked hard in 2022.. we’ll work harder so that your support towards us won’t be in vain.
lets work hard! us as the singers too, and you guys as the fans as well. lets work hard together. lets give strength towards each other. fighting!!! 👏
3) Kanemoto Yoshinori
Happy New Year TREASURE MAKER 💖
HAPPY NEW YEAR 💕
Please take good care of me this year too 🌟
4) Kim Junkyu
Treasure Maker, Thank you for 2022, please take care of me for 2023 too, I will always support you as well!
5) Yoon Jaehyuk
you worked really hard in 2022 too, and I hope everyone will be happy in 2023. thank you always, everyone~❤️
"I'll take out the old memories,
I'll take it out and see what made me happy,
Perhaps forever
I think I'll bury it, take it out for the last time" - Hold It In, TREASURE
Me : 2022 left a very beautiful and precious memory as Treasure Maker. I've decided to stan TREASURE since March 2022 and appointed myself as streamers. Though we have a heartbreaking moment during November with Bang Yedam and Takata Mashiho sudden news of leaving but I still have 10 members whom keeping our promise to walk flowery path and holding on facing any turbulence in life. We're going slowmotion, remember?
And after everything that we went through, 2023 will be the year to join this blue ocean with my Teume moots! Can't wait to scream like monkey during Jikjin and shout dururu hoy when TREASURE sing HELLO in Stadium Melawati Shah Alam soon! Stay happy and healthy TREASURE and TREASURE MAKER!
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