If you are Indonesian, then perhaps this would resonate further with you. Cue the leaning-out-of-the-train-door-and-looking-at-the-scenery montage sequence, complete with the appropriate score soaring softly in the background. They travel from the bustling city and make their way into the country side via the time-tested method of taking a train. This is where the film transitions a little to become something of a road movie. That activity? Climbing the highest peak of Java, Mahameru on Gunung Semeru, on the 17th of August. “We have to climb this? Are you fucking kidding me?!” By the end of that time period, Genta would inform them of one activity they would all have to take part in, an activity that would bring them all together and make them closer to one another. What trip? Well, as a way of pushing their friendship further, one fine night (and I do mean one very fine night in a very fine place), they decided that their relatively bourgeois existence is probably no good for the long-term health of their friendship, and so decided, at least for the next three months, to go their separate ways without once contacting each other. It’s not quite bending over backwards, but it is telling that he is the one who initiated this idea to begin with, and organised their trip.
They are all held together in many respects by Genta (Fedi Nuril), who leads the group in terms of his willingness to accede to the wishes of others. That is something that Ian (Igor Saykoji), the (if I may be permitted to use a politically incorrect description in this day and age) fat one of the group, and therefore the butt of many of the jokes in the film.
Her hotness can be paralleled with Arial (Denny Sumargo), whose machoness knows almost no boundaries…except for when it comes to picking up women. It’s not to dissimilar from Riani (Raline Shah), who is the dream girl of some in the film (and maybe outside of it too, if my cinematographer ever gets to watch this). He does have a wish to become famous, almost above anything else.
That, I suppose, is what being an idealist does to you, and he is quite idealistic to a certain extent. Zafran (Herjunot Ali) is a bit of a poet, one who has a quotable line prepared and ready to go for almost any occasion. What’s interesting is that they each has a different characteristic, one unique enough to separate them from another. It tells the story of five friends, whose friendship has lasted the better part of a decade. There are several other themes and ideas tied to this, but it serves as an interesting basic premise to explore further. Bored, in manyrespects, of the kind and good life that they have been living up, they decided to push further their boundaries, to push their friendship to limits so as to better appreciate it. The film ‘5 cm’ is a very interesting exploration of a fairly interesting concept, perhaps one that is particularly prevalent amongst a segment of society.
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