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Ice Kacang Puppy Love is straightforward and conventional, but that’s okay – really. An enjoyable and entertaining story that mixes a little bit of drama and comedy, the movie is set in the early nineties in a small town of Ipoh, Malaysia. Written and directed by singer Tan Kheng-Seong or better known as Ah Niu, the movie shares many similar love-at-first-sight and puppy love stories from our early childhood that never fails to put a smile on that face. You couldn’t help but to play along with the cast on a swirling emotional journey.
The story is simple – love should be not be a complicated issue – yet to show the unconditional love, first time director, Ah Niu managed to stay away from getting too much of physical contact, except maybe innocent peck-on-the-lips in between shots or limited-contact hugs. At some point, it’s painful to watch especially those involving family-related relationship. While the movie can be happy-clappy at one tip, things can change pretty fast into heart-wrenching, tear duct-squeezing moment. When done right, everything seems flawless.
Angelica Lee Sinje turns in a predictably two-thumbs up performance in this movie. While getting some stars who are well in their 30s to play youngsters somewhere in their twenties and barely out of school might not look like a really good idea, but I’d say most of the actors here convincingly put on a great show playing kids over again. It clearly reminds you how life in those days are like – carefree, pressures from your parents and wanting to escape to the city to make it big.
Another commendable aspect is the cinematography. It’s surprising to see that shots were done so perfectly well, that one might have to do a double take to confirm its being made locally. Yes, no doubt the picture-perfect scenes are the one that drawn me into the movie, minus the star power. It’s mesmerising to watch how scenes unfold in front of you, almost like flipping on a picturesque album. In short, most of the shots are very much conceptualised, with a lot of camera-experiments with lights and shadow.
Ice Kacang Puppy Love is a likable debut from the first-time director and another reminder that when done right, stories like this are never exhausted and are always welcome by both local and international moviegoers.