TERBAIK, mesti tonton ICE KACANG PUPPY LOVE
Semalam “tertonton” penuh cerita ini di TV2, RTM.
Ada ais kacang, ada main guli, ada lawan ikan laga, ada penjual
roti bermotosikal dan sebagainya. Kisah persahabatan semenjak kanak-kanak, percintaan dan drama masyarakat sekitar
keluarga Kopi Tiam Malaysian Chinese. Ada kedengaran azan Subuh lagi! Tidak
seperti drama barat yang biasanya mengaitkan azan (dan bacaan Al Quran) dengan
keganasan.
Cerita penuh di di sini - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bAO4uIuy6A
http://orangkecilorangbesar.blogspot.com/
ICE KACANG PUPPY LOVE
The story is set in the 1980s in Tronoh,
a small town in Perak.
Twenty-year-old-plus Botak (Ah Niu) is the younger of a Chinese
coffeeshop owner's two sons. A reserved, quiet young lad with prickly hair,
having been shaved during childhood (thus gaining his nickname Botak, which means baldy inMalay), he harbors a secret admiration towards Chew Anqi (周安琪), or
Fighting-Fish (Angelica Lee), daughter of a char kuey teow seller, Yue Feng (月凤) (Angela Chan),
who rents a stall in the same coffeeshop. However, he was never bold enough to
confess his love towards her and only conveyed it through drawing portraits of
her.
Anqi entered Botak's life when he was a young boy, when Yue Feng sought
refuge with Botak's mother after she could no longer stand physical abuse by
her husband. This resulted in Anqi (named after 'Angel') often being teased as
being fatherless by another childhood friend, a bully yet coward to stronger
forces, Ma Linfan (马麟帆) (Gary Chaw), son of parents who ran an
illegal betting syndicate. As children, Anqi, Ma Linfan and 'African' (later
called Prince Charming in adulthood) (Victor Wong), often competed playing
marbles (bakuli/buah guli) or fighting fish with each other. Anqi always
won these games. After losing a game, Ma Linfan teased Anqi. She became angry
and beat Ma Linfan, thus giving her a strong, fierce personality. Because of
this, Anqi was given the nickname Fighting-Fish.
Whenever she was upset, she would eat ais kacang (spelt
as Ice Kacang for the movie) together with Botak, or idle away by the river
chatting with him. She would always say that when she grew up, she would return
to Penang to look for her father and move to a faraway place, which Botak
desired not to realise. As a 20 year-old something adult, she was in a cold
relationship with her mother, blaming her being estranged from her father.
Ma Linfan, frustrated at losing to Fighting-Fish each time in fighting fish
duels, decided to steal hers, but was caught red-handed and escaped. The second
time, which could have been a success, he ended up with a tussle with
Fighting-Fish, which had her brushing against him on the lower bodies, causing
him to have an erection. Because of this, he believed that he fell in love with
Fighting-Fish and went to great lengths to win her love.
Ma Libing (马丽冰) (Fish Leong), the younger sister of Ma
Linfan, was secretly in love with Botak. Throughout the story, Ma Libing was a
quiet girl and was often seen holding a packet of iced barley drink (thus the
nickname Barley-Bing)
whenever she went. She chanced upon Botak's love letter to Fighting-Fish in her
brother's room. She became upset after reading the letter and sought to win his
love with even more determination. The letter somehow ended up with Yue Feng,
who then knew of Botak's secret admiration of her daughter and later discovered
Botak's portraits of Fighting-Fish in his room.
After a heated quarrel with her mother over her disapproval of her wanting
to marry another man, Fighting-Fish travelled to Penang to look for her father
with Botak. They arrived at her old home at Chew Jetty (姓周桥), a neighbourhood of wooden houses on water, occupied by
Chinese families with the surname Chew (周 zhōu), only to discover
that her father (Eric Moo) now operates an illegal gambling
den and had remarried with a 5 year-old son and an unborn child. The reunion
was disrupted with a raid by the police. Botak, Fighting-Fish and her father
managed to escape, but she realized the predicament that her mother was in 10
years ago. She sought to mend ties with her and expressed her desire to further
her studies in Singapore.
Botak went after her on the day of her departure, bringing a packet of ais
kacang and the unread love letter. During the journey, he was met with two
accidents but was only bruised from head to toe. He handed the packet to
Fighting-Fish, moving her to tears (she had also discovered Botak's portraits
of her during the night before). In the haste, Botak also forgot to hand the letter
to her and left the scene drenched from rain. Botak's younger sister submitted
one of Botak's portraits to a drawing competition, which won the first prize,
even appearing in newspapers. When Botak found out, he ran away in tears,
unwilling to embrace the fact that he had hesitated to confess his love to
Fighting-Fish.
Towards the end of the scene, all of the young characters had left the
town, each on their own career paths. The final scene showed Botak, now older
and with a girlfriend, at a pedestrian crossing in Kuala Lumpur, not knowing that Fighting-Fish was also nearby.
They both walk away in different directions.
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