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‘Red Before Dawn’ Review: A Road Movie Revisits the Indonesian Revolution in Ways More Didactic Than Climactic
Few people outside of Indonesia are likely to be familiar with the war of independence that began there just as WWII was coming to an end, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths at the hands of both Dutch soldiers and warring…
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The film follows a diverse group of travelers on a perilous road trip from Jakarta to Yogyakarta in 1946, during Indonesia’s war of independence. Their journey through hostile territory is filled with obstacles that test their resolve and force them to confront the country’s ethnic and religious divisions. Garin Nugroho uses the road movie format to condense the revolution’s complex history into a single, tense narrative. The story shows how these characters, despite their differences, gradually unite under a shared national flag as the country moves toward full emancipation in 1949.
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