Of Love and Eggs - Pre Thoughts

For our next film to watch in Global Film Studeies class, we will again head to Asia. To be more specific, our next foreign film in the lineup comes from a southeast Asian country that is composed of many scattered islands.

Of Love and Eggs is an Indonesian film that supposedly follows smaller interwoven storylines in a Jakarta working class community. The plot/s of this movie takes place during the Muslim religious holiday of Lebaran. I will assume that some of the major themes of this film might include "eggs" and "love", for they are simply mentioned in the title. Online reviews have categorized this film as being a "gentle humor" that focuses on a wide range of issues. These include parental & child relationships, Jakartan social and religious topics, and the powerful subjects of religion, love-and eggs.

It will be interesting to learn how somthing so simple as an egg can be a powerful symbol in this Indonesian community and a focal point of this movie. While this movie is not a documentary, the presented footage of Of Love and Eggs should be authentic and indicative of Indonesian and Jakartan society and culture. I very much look forward to seeing this next foreign film, and be sure to stay alert for my personal analysis and synopsis of this Global Film Initiative selection.