A MARRIAGE OF TWO REALMS
It doesn't look similar to the actress.
That's Mom, isn't it?
Yes. Beautiful, isn't she?
More beautiful in person.
Of course she is. And here she is.
- Come here. - What? I want to put this flask.
Do you know,
the first time I met her, what did I say?
- Must I know that? - I said this.
"Pleased to meet you.
I am the person most loved by God
because I've been guided to meet you since I was a child."
And what did Mom say?
Mom said, "Out of my way! The film is about to start."
Where did you two meet anyway?
At a theater, Han.
Back then, Dad worked as a ticket puncher.
He used to be my boss.
The manager of the theater. His name is Mr. Domi.
Why do you no longer work there?
It's been closed down
and replaced by the ones at the malls.
This one is Rama Pamungkas.
They used to be famous actors.
Did Mom often meet film stars too?
- Why should I? - They're a handsome bunch.
Your dad is obviously more handsome.
I love you so much.
I love you--
A MARRIAGE OF TWO REALMS
Are you looking for someone?
Are you Bandi?
- Yes. - We got a report
that you live here without permission.
I got the permission from the owner of the building.
I make film posters for theaters.
But you shouldn't live here.
- Asshole! - Bandi!
Let him.
- Shut up! - Bandi!
Bandi!
Stop!
- Mom! - You bastard!
Get off me!
- Get off me! - Amir!
- What the hell are you doing, Amir? - Get off me!
Even Satan isn't this evil.
Dewi, we just want you to go home. We all just want you to go home.
What are you doing with a guy who can't give you a proper life anyway?
I don't need anyone to do that for me. I can provide for myself!
I'm happy living with my son and my husband here.
Go home. Our late dad said that
you won't get any inheritance if you stay with your husband.
I don't need that inheritance.
But we need that, Dewi! Your name is written in the will.
If you don't sign it, we can't sell the inheritance.
Here.
Dewi, please.
Get out! Leave us alone.
That's it. Just let him go.
Let's go.
Is it true
that back when you met Dad for the first time,
it was because you wanted God to guide you to your soulmate?
Yes.
I didn't know why I felt that I must go to the theater.
And then?
When I met him at the entrance,
I knew...
he is my soulmate.
Who told you that?
I'm not so sure, Han. But Dad told me that
he also wanted to meet his soulmate.
I also want to pray so I can meet my soulmate in the future.
You can start after graduating from college.
Go to sleep now.
I promise you
that I will find another job tomorrow.
One that pays better,
so we can rent a proper house.
Honey,
we're lucky to be here.
This building has a strong structure.
There are many people out there living in worse conditions.
But you don't deserve to struggle like this.
If I didn't deserve it,
I would just go back home.
Why would I help you paint all these fabrics?
- I'd rather paint you. - What?
Why do you want to stay?
Because whatever happens,
I know you will never leave me.
I will never leave you. I'd rather die.
Fingers crossed, Dewi.
If the recession is over...
and the theaters are open again,
I can work there again
at our favorite place.
It must feel like I don't even work.
What's wrong, Dewi?
Did you get your period?
- I'll get the medicine. - We ran out of it.
- I'll buy some at the drugstore. - No need, honey.
- The pain will go away. - It won't take long. I'll take a bus.
No need, honey.
We're running out of money.
There must be some for medicine.
- Okay? - Wait a second.
Dewi.
Not that one.
This is the memento of our first date.
You can use it for emergencies.
I'll be back in a minute.
The fare, ma'am.
Can't you be any poorer?
I only have that.
You can't keep doing this.
That's all I got, son.
Come on, just pay in full.
It's unfair to the other passengers who did.
Sir, just get over it.
An old woman like her always pays half in other countries.
Which countries? Have you ever been there anyway?
You help her pay for it then.
You should be ashamed.
The fare, sir.
Sir, pull over, please!
Bandi.
What took you so long?
You woke up late, didn't you?
Bandi.
You should've arrived much earlier.
You always have to dress up, Bandi.
Here.
All right.
You're handsome, you know that?
Go to work now.
The guests will enter the studio soon.
No one is punching the tickets but you.
Understand?
Go there now.
Mr. Bandi.
Enjoy the film.
Please come in.
Enjoy the film.
TODAY, A BREATH OF ROMANCE
How is it, Bandi? How do you feel?
TODAY, A BREATH OF ROMANCE
Mr. Domi, do you realize
that the theater looks neglected from the outside?
No theater should be left abandoned.
A BREATH OF ROMANCE
How is it?
Does it look abandoned?
Should I fire all the cleaners?
Bandi.
You're still single.
You have a good job. You get paid well.
You get paid well enough, don't you?
All the people here are nice.
All of them love and respect you.
Come on.
Just enjoy it.
I'm going inside now.
The guests will leave the studio soon and have some drinks here.
You'll come with me.
Okay?
Dewi.
Marhan.
Mom!
Marhan!
Dewi.
When did you cut your hair?
Has the pain gone away?
They ran out of the medicine we often take.
I bought a different brand, but it acts the same way.
- Where were you? - I just came by our favorite theater.
- Where were you? - What's going on with you, Dewi?
- Where were you? What did we do? - What's wrong, Dewi?
What did we do that you left us for two years?
C&S STORE, 1999
That night,
Marhan and I were looking for you everywhere.
The drugstore attendant said...
you left right after you bought the medicine.
We looked for you all over the city.
We couldn't find you.
We continued the next day.
Then the next day and the next day.
People said you got married again.
Some said you were already dead
and drowned in the river.
We stopped looking after a year,
- after Marhan had stopped crying. - I swear, Dewi.
I only came by our favorite theater.
Our favorite theater has long been closed.
But Dewi...
When I came in,
there was a gala premiere for a new film, Dewi.
I swear!
So it's just a dream.
I was only away for a few hours.
Maybe this is also just a dream.
Marhan!
Come here, son.
Marhan.
This is your wife and son.
You have left us for two years.
Be honest with us. Where were you?
Dewi,
I honestly don't know what just happened.
I'm confused.
Maybe I've gone mad
or I'm just dreaming.
If I'm just dreaming,
and you no longer believe me...
You no longer love me...
I'm not strong enough to face it, Dewi.
Marhan...
You don't want to look at me.
You don't want to be anywhere near me.
I'd rather die.
Just let me die, Dewi.
I believe you, honey.
I believe you.
- Honey. - Yes?
I've saved up for the past year.
It is from doing people's laundry.
I've saved up quite a lot. We can afford to rent a house.
For now, I'll help you do the laundry
while I'll try to find another job.
You won't leave us again, will you?
I will not.
I just remember.
When I was a kid,
my friend was gone for three days.
Kidnapped by a ghost.
Maybe that's what happened to you too.
From now on, whatever the ghosts are,
nothing can make me leave you two again.
I'll go buy some cigarettes.
You said no ghosts can make you leave us again.
Why cigarettes can?
It's just out front.
Let's just buy them on our way home.
It's all right.
My mouth feels funny if I don't smoke after dinner.
- Broke down? - Yes, sir.
Can you help me, sir?
- All right. - Thank you, sir.
- Ready? - Yes.
You!
Thieves!
- Asshole! - Sir!
- Thieves! - Catch him.
I'm not the thief! I'm not guilty!
Sir!
I'm not the thief!
Wait a minute!
I just wanted to buy some cigarettes!
- My wife and son are waiting! - I'm not a thief, sir. I'm just--
- Don't you run away! - Where are you going?
- Stop! Where are you going? - Where the hell are you going?
Come on, after him!
You!
Where are you going, asshole?
Thief!
You asshole!
Sirs.
- Bandi... - That...
We're waiting for you, Bandi.
We know you will come back here again.
Sirs, please help me.
People are after me, thinking I'm a motorbike thief. I have to hide!
Bandi, listen to me.
You don't have to hide here.
- No one can hurt and bother you here. - Yes, sir. But they are--
- They will come here and catch me! - Calm down, sir.
They won't be able to enter the building
because they're not invited.
What is this place, actually?
Who are you really?
Ghosts?
Bandi...
Mr. Bandi, I would like to know.
Do you think that the life you're living now
is already the life you dreamt of as a kid?
Bandi, try to think of it.
Did you dream of not having a house?
Mocked by the neighbors, by friends?
I dreamt of becoming rich.
Right.
Having a big house, successful.
Having a respectable job.
That's the thing, Mr. Bandi.
Don't you want to trade your current life
with the one you used to have?
I love my wife and son, sir.
I never dreamt of having that kind of feeling back then.
All right, just imagine, Bandi.
They never met you.
Your wife had a much better life.
Your son had a dad who could make him proud.
My wife and son will be very sad
if they can't meet me anymore.
That will only be temporary, Mr. Bandi.
They will then forget this and have a new life, won't they?
All right, Bandi.
We have to go for now.
Just stay here for now until you're calm enough.
But remember, Bandi.
If you leave through that door...
Sadness. Disaster.
When you're ready...
you can leave through the front door.
Imagine the life you used to dream of.
You'll get exactly that. Right away.
Right away, Bandi.
We'll see you again, Mr. Bandi.
- You thief! Where the hell are you? - Thief!
Dewi, Marhan...
Dewi! Marhan!
Dewi.
Marhan.
- Who are you two? - Yes?
- Can I help you? - Where's my wife and son?
Who do you mean, sir?
I live here with my wife and son.
This place has been empty for quite some time.
We're just renovating it, turning it into offices.
I used to live here, sir.
- Me, my wife, my son. - If I'm not mistaken,
there used to be a family living here.
- A mom and her son. - Where are they?
Maybe my friend here knows more about it.
Mr. Somad, the female who lives here with her son--
Do you mean Ms. Dewi?
Right. Where is Dewi now?
I think they moved out to a rented house in the village nearby.
- Yes? - Does Dewi live here?
Yes, and you are--
I'm her husband.
Wait here.
Dewi.
I'm back, Dewi.
You... What are you?
I don't know what happened to me, Dewi.
Dewi...
Dad.
Is that Marhan?
What did you come back for?
You always hurt us.
I never had any intention to do that. Dewi!
Dewi!
Open the door, please!
Dewi!
Sir.
Dewi and Marhan suffered too much
when you left them again.
For months, Dewi kept crying.
She was in despair
and she always asked me.
What was her fault to you?
Marhan did just the same.
I love Dewi and Marhan.
I promise
I will take care of them forever.
You don't have to worry.
I won't hurt them.
I won't leave them either.
I also promise
that I will make them happy.
But I want you to help me too.
Don't ever come into their lives again.
Marhan...
How long was I away this time?
Three years, Dad.
I'm in middle school now.
You can be honest with me.
Did you marry another woman?
I will never do that.
If you did, this would all be easier to understand.
I didn't get married again.
- Then where were you? - The same as before.
The theater where I used to work.
Dad, the theater has been torn down completely.
Whenever you came back, you were always filthy and smelly.
As if you never changed your clothes in years.
Perhaps I never changed my clothes.
I feel that I was away not too long.
It would be easier to understand if you did get married again.
I didn't do that, son.
I can't leave you and your mom.
I will find a job tomorrow
so I can be paid well,
collect some money so I can rent a proper house.
To get back together with your mom.
Is your stepdad a nice person?
He's very nice, Dad.
When you left us last time, Mom was devastated for a very long time.
But Mom was saddened again last night.
The only thing I want is for Mom not to feel sad anymore.
Dewi...
Goodbye, my wife.
Welcome back to your real home.
Happy working.
They can't get in
if no one is punching the tickets.
...this one too.
Enjoy the film.
- Paired up. - Yes.
- Enjoy the film. - Thank you.
I want to study physics at college, sir.
Because I want to study at ITB.
Whatever university or study you want, it will be entirely up to you.
As long as that's what you want, not influenced by others.
Yes, sir.
May I rent a dorm at college, Mom?
Mom?
- Yes? - Can I rent a dorm in Bandung?
What's wrong, Dewi?
Are you ill?
No.
I'll just go to the toilet, okay?
At the start of 2004,
it is predicted that the number of homeless in Jakarta
will increase by 20% compared to last year,
and 30% of them
are also people suffering
from mental illness.
This is quite a significant increase
if we look back at the number in the past few years,
and due to that, the government is making an effort to...
THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS IN JAKARTA INCREASES
Marhan!
- What happened, Mom? - That's your dad!
Dhilla Adinda reporting
for CAS TV.
It could be someone else.
- Someone similar. - I know that's Bandi.
- Marhan also told me he's not so sure. - No.
That's Bandi.
How is it, Marhan?
- Did you find a phone booth? - I did.
Have you called the TV station?
They're off on Saturdays. I talked to the security instead.
Where did they say the reporting was?
He didn't know. He asked me to call again tomorrow.
Are you sure you want to go looking for him?
He's already gone.
He has left you twice.
Maybe even three times!
Maybe he's having some difficulties.
When you find him, what will you do anyway?
Dewi, even if it's really him,
there's nothing you can do.
Even though it explains
why he was never aware of it whenever he left you.
I should have known.
Every time he came home, his clothes were crumpled,
and his body was filthy and smelly.
Just get over it.
That's government's business.
Let them take care of it.
Even if you meet him,
how can you help him anyway?
Let him live with us?
A mentally challenged person like that?
You have promised me
that you will forget him.
He's the dad of my son.
I am Marhan's dad now.
And I am your husband.
Bandi.
Enjoy the film.
Bandi.
Dewi?
Dewi.
Please tell me
where you are now.
Bandi.
Dewi.
Bandi.
Dewi.
I miss you.
Bandi.
What are you doing?
What do you mean?
You're making others' lives difficult.
You're making your son's and wife's life difficult.
They are happy with their lives now.
But I'm here, sir. I'm not leaving.
And don't you remember them again.
Only my memories of my wife
that make me stay alive.
Don't!
Don't you dare, Bandi.
Don't.
You will break everything apart.
What are you all really?
We are all your friends, Bandi.
We are the ones taking care of you.
You can choose whoever you want, Bandi.
To be your wife,
your slave, or anything you want.
Up to you.
Sorry.
Bandi.
Bandi! Wake up!
Bandi!
Dewi!
Wake up, honey!
Help me!
Wake up, honey!
Help me!
Dewi!
Bandi! Wake up!
Bandi, wake up!
Bandi.
Bandi, wake up.
If you get out of here...
and go back to your family,
you'll be bringing disappointment to yourself.
Disappointment to life.
Disappointment to the world. To them.
All of that burdens them.
And then what?
And then what is it for, Bandi?
Bandi!
Subtitle translation by: Arya Wiguna