And given that it's a love story, expect nothing more than the usual clichés at various points of the story, from wooing teenagers, to a young couple, then that of a couple whose marriage is rock steady and at maturity, before finally touching on the notion of how the difficulties every couple will face when called upon to make decisions to let go, especially if it deals with one's soulmate and likely best friend for decades. Or at least that's not how the film had the character come across.
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Starting off as immensely likable and independent, her role once she becomes a wife, somehow took a backseat, as if mirroring and in parallel to some aged old Asian tradition of the dutiful wife who stays in the background rather than continuing in her independent ways.
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Bunga Citra Lestari as Ainun was a little bit wasted in character though, because it became a tale of two halves for the character. Actor Reza Rahadian nailed all the mannerisms of Habibie just right, from the limited news reels I've seen of the real man from time to time on television, so it's not hard to compare how, in biographical films, the leading man disappears and on comes his persona of the person he's portraying, down to that hearty laughter. With the real BJ Habibie's inputs during the production process, Faozan assures the audience of authenticity of the highest degree, where we follow the charming courtship of Ainun, share and peek into Habibie's ideals and prime motivation in life, and follow his career both in Germany and Indonesia where he rose to become a prominent engineer and businessman. Aptly titled Habibie and Ainun, director Faozan Rizal firmly put the spotlight on this central relationship, which could be anyone's love story for its struggles, romance and celebration of a union between two people, charted over more than 5 decades to the matrimonial vows of till death do us part. All that within what is essentially a love story.
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After all, this movie turns up the praise of a man portrayed to have grown from the school of hard knocks, with determination and an impressive professional track record, before being called on to lead the country during times of turmoil. Given this biography of the man, based upon his memoirs, I'm now more inclined to think that he was not dismissing our country, and that it was all an honest mistake in having himself misinterpreted. We have Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie to thank for in coining that Little Red Dot term for Singapore, which was meant to be derogatory, but as it turned out, it became a nice little moniker that we use from time to time with a certain degree of endearment.