Under the direction of April Dwi Prasetyo, Secarik works like a time machine, transporting us back to our elementary school days, a time when we first started crushing on someone, complete with all the awkward, try-hard moments we thought were cool but now look back on with a laugh. In this movie, we meet Bimbim, a young boy who waits patiently for his classmate Sasa to come home from school. Hidden behind a tree, he turns the whole thing into a secret mission.
But Bimbim’s puppy love doesn’t go according to plan. His stakeout takes an unexpected turn when he spots Sasa riding home on the back of another boy’s bicycle, and just like that, he faces his very first heartbreak. Refusing to give up, Bimbim decides to take a big leap he learned straight from the television: writing a love letter. This is where Secarik truly shines, showing us a little boy pouring everything he has into finding just the right words to put on a piece of paper. But the letter’s journey doesn’t go smoothly, and Bimbim soon runs into obstacles he never saw coming.
Rather than throwing in the towel, Bimbim doubles down, and what follows is a testament to how a child’s creative thinking can work, in the most wonderfully pure ways. The movie captures an honest, unfiltered portrait of what it feels like to fall in love as a kid: from the way Bimbim brushes off his sibling’s teasing to the fierce determination that drives him to get his message across. Will his letter ever reach Sasa? Or will the wind carry his story somewhere else entirely?
Writer Ailsa Luthfia Indrasari Laksana Putri
Editor Arina Chuuriyyah Herawati
Translator Iniko Rafa Delmora Aziz
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