(Review) Top Secret

Movie review

Top Secret

Directed          : Songyos Sugmakanan

Starring           : Pachara Chirathivat
Studio                         : GMM Tai Hub

Release            : 20 October 2011 (Thailand)

Country           : Thailand

Language        : Thai

 Box office      : 38,796,264 THB

 Top Secret also known as “The Billionaire”. This movie is Thai biographical movie that produced by GTH Thailand. It played by Pachara Chirativat Somboonsuk Niyomsiri (aka Piak Poster) and Walanlak Kumsuwan. It  was released on 20 October 2011 in Thailand, where it grossed 38,796,264 baht.

This time, one of the largest movie GTH Thailand issued the next teen movie debut. But this is not just any teen romantic comedy movie as like  Bangkok Traffic Love, Hello Stranger, and Suckseed.  Movie The Billionair (Top Secret) is autobiographical movie about the struggle of a young man called Top Ittipad.  Before watching usually someone picking a good movie to watch what kind of ideas, story-telling, graphics, and inspiration of what bias obtained.  But,  just looking at the trailer, we have been very interested about it.

            Top Secret, made with the cooperation of Top Aitthipat, goes a different route, and doesn't shy away from showing how arrogant and reckless Top was in his youth.

            So there's a perfect story arc, which begins with Top's early success in making stacks of cash from online gaming and dropping out of business school. He then makes uninformed business decisions and lots of mistakes in his first venture of roasting chestnuts. Meanwhile, his family has been ruined financially by his own father's failed business. Eventually, Top stumbles onto fried seaweed snacks, and by trial and lots of errors, comes up with a way to cook and package them. Much of the story is told in a flashback, by the 19-year-old Top to an impatient banker. Just as the loan officer is hoping to get rid of the kid, the irrepressible Top somehow reels the guy back in.

            Top Secret is also notable for showing the inner-workings of Thailand's 7-Eleven corporation, with Top wearing out an office lobby seat while waiting for a chance to talk to the lady in charge of accepting new products. An exacting inspection of the factory doesn't go well, and Top runs the risk of making his first delivery late and getting off on the wrong foot.

            Through his experiences in starting his business in his teens and becoming a (baht) billionaire by the time he was 26, the headstrong Top is taught many lessons in humility.
            Carrying the movie is mop-headed young actor Patchara Chirathivat in his second big movie role after studio GTH's fun rock 'n' roll love story SuckSeed earlier in the year. It's been said the scion of Thailand's Central Department Store family was inspired by his own relationship with his father in the portrayal of a son who never quite measured up to his dad's expectations.

            But the real revelation of the movie, it's heart and soul, is Somboonsuk Niyomsiri, an 80-year-old acting newcomer. But he's better known as Piak Poster, the director of a string of popular teen-oriented comedies and dramas in the 1970s. In Top Secret, he plays Top's kindly "uncle", who's there every step of the way for Top, helping to hawk roasted chestnuts, fry seaweed and sleep on the floor of the factory shophouse.

            This good biographycal movie is recomended for teens and young bussinessman who want to reach success. As like Top, he never tired to try even he get fail in many chance. Because in our life we have dream. And we need “struggle” to make it come true.

Contoh Esai

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Penghapusan RMBI ramai dibicarakan di media massa. Mahkamah Agung memutuskan untuk menghapus RMBI dan mengganti sekolah-sekolah yang memiliki program RMBI menjadi Sekolah Unggul. Hal ini dikarenakan tuntutan orang tua murid dan beberapa LSM yang menuntut agar RMBI dibubarkan.

RMBI dinilai sebagai program sekolah yang tidak dapat dinikmati oleh seluruh kelas masyarakat dikarenakan biaya yang cukup mahal untuk mengikuti program tersebut. Beberapa pendapat mengatakan bahwa RMBI hanya menciptakan diskriminasi kelas sosial antara siswa program regular dengan siswa program RMBI. Keritik pedas yang dilontarkan sebuah LSM juga mengatakan RMBI hanya menjauhkan siswa-siswi dari bahasa dan budaya setempat karena program-programnya hanya mengedepankan sesuatu yang berbau Internasional.

Dalam suatu kesempatan ketua komisi X ,Agus Hermanto, mengatakan bahwa sistem RMBI diberlakukan setelah aturannya dibahas di DPR oleh komisi X bersama Kementrian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Kemendikbud). RSBI diadakan karena munculnya semangat untuk meningkatkan kualitas pendidikan bertaraf Internasional di Indonesia.

Menilik dari akar permasalahan. Program RSBI tidak semata-mata didirikan untuk sekedar membuat kasta sosial di sekolah. Namun, agar siswa maupun siswi dapat memilikii daya saing Internasional dengan penguatan bahasa asing. Tujuan ini tidak dapat disalahkan karena persaingan dunia semakin ketat dengan adanya globalisasi. Siswa maupun siswi yang memiliki prestasi akademik luar biasa di dalam negri belum tentu dapat bersaing di kancah Internasional. Karena bahasa merupakan kunci utama dalam pergaulan Internasional. Kita tidak boleh selamanya menjadi bangsa yang terbelakang. Kita harus mulai berani bersaing di kancah Internasional.

             Akan tetapi, ada hal-hal yang perlu diperhatikan. Jangan sampai siswa siswi hanya diberi materi-materi bertaraf Internasional yang berkiblat pada kemajuan teknologi bangsa Barat. Salah-salah siswa-siswi Indonesia kehilangan identitasnya sebagai bangsa Timur dan mengikuti pergaulan bangsa Barat yang “bebas” tanpa kendali. Nilai-nilai budaya, tata krama, serta adat istiadat harus tetap dipertahankan dan ditanamkan kepada setiap insan Indonesia. Akan menjadi lebih baik jika dapat bersaing di dunia Internasional dengan “Jiwa Indonesia” yang mengakar kuat.

            Seperti halnya Jepang. Negara yang pernah menjajah Indonesia selama “umur jagung” ini telah membuktikan bahwa negara tersebut bisa menjadi negara maju dengan terus mempertahankan budayanya. Jika Negara Jepang bisa, mengapa Indonesia tidak? 

Sudah saatnya kita bangkit dan menjadi bangsa yang kuat. Program sekolah unggulan  sebagai pengganti RMBI seharusnya dapat mengedepankankan aspek budaya dan pendidikan Internasional. Hingga tercapai sinergi antara ilmu pengetahuan dan moral yang tinggi dalam setiap pribadi pelajar Indonesia.


Tugas 1: Esai Bahasa Indonesia (XII A2/ smt 2)