{"id":30996,"date":"2023-11-01T16:50:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.ffd.or.id\/uncategorized\/one-big-sumba-family-2022-a-fly-in-the-wall-look-into-one-super-sized-sumba-family\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T13:13:40","slug":"one-big-sumba-family-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/film-review-en\/one-big-sumba-family-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"One Big Sumba Family (2022): A Fly-in-the-Wall Look into One Super-Sized Sumba Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>12 wives, 52 children, 220 grandchildren, 1 husband. That is the sheer size of MD Raya\u2019s household in the aptly-named <em>One Big Sumba Family <\/em>(Tonny Trimarsanto, 2022). The film focuses on the dynamics within and surrounding this super-sized family and the village they live in. Through his fly-on-the-wall approach, Trimarsanto showcases the many shades of life in this particular village in East Nusa Tenggara, one which is rooted in tradition.<\/p>\n<p><em>One Big Sumba Family<\/em> (2022) provides insights into the bright and beautiful colors and cultural contours of ceremonies and celebrations in the village, which provides for a visually pleasing sight. The documentary does however, manage to diligently display the darker undertones of rural life such as that of violence, poverty and patriarchy. These shades help us further explore the complexities of MD Raya\u2019s family. It is explained that In his act of polygamy, MD Raya openly opposes the religiously-rooted norms of his village.<\/p>\n<p>In the poignant opening scene, we see Marta, the wife of Adi, MD Raya\u2019s son from his twelfth wife, pray to God that his husband does not fall for\u2013let alone marry\u2013another woman. The irony however, is revealed in one of the final scenes: Adi, like his father, also believes that having further wifes could be a part of God\u2019s plan for him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53296405876_87594831cf_b.jpg\" width=\"1023\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>One Big Sumba Family<\/em> (2022) also manages to be thematically aware in the case of the current questions surrounding the melding of tradition and modernity. There are many instances throughout the documentary where these two sometimes seemingly opposite sides clash. However, it does not lie in its exploration of complex clashes of principles. The film is in the titular focus on family, in the moments in which, as families often do, they pull together and prevail despite the many day-to-day difficulties they face.<\/p>\n<p><em>One Big Sumba Family <\/em>(2022) is in competition in <strong>Indonesia Feature-Length Competition <\/strong>Festival Film Dokumenter 2023. (Aradi Ghalizha) (Vanis)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Detail Film<br \/>\n<\/strong>One Big Sumba Family<br \/>\nTonny Trimarsanto | 80 Minutes | 2022 | East Nusa Tenggara | Color | 17+<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jadwal Tayang<br \/>\n<\/strong>12.04 | Auditorium IFI-LIP | 16.30 WIB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 wives, 52 children, 220 grandchildren, 1 husband. That is the sheer size of MD Raya\u2019s household in the aptly-named One Big Sumba Family (Tonny Trimarsanto, 2022). The film focuses on the dynamics within and surrounding this super-sized family and the village they live in. Through his fly-on-the-wall approach, Trimarsanto showcases the many shades of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1182,"featured_media":30176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"edition":[648],"class_list":["post-30996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-review-en","edition-ffd-2023-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30996"},{"taxonomy":"edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffd.or.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/edition?post=30996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}