As a matter of a man with a mother -in -law became a viral movie

Within months, the Indonesian movie audience told about one movie: the norm, the story of a healthy blessed marriage that crashed underground husband with his mother -in -law.

This is a plot that was always going to attract melodrama fans. But what did the norm of nationwide obsession is that it is based on a viral true story.

In 2022, the rate of rice, a woman in the city of Seang on Java Indonesia, exposed her husband and mother in a video of a cicon.

Her story quickly gained millions of views, made her headlines and eventually brought her a movie transaction that took the storm of Southeast Asia.

The norm, which came to Indonesian theaters in March and Netflix in August, soon became one of the most popular films that are not included in Indonesia, but also in Malaysia and Singapore, where there is a large Malay Muslim population.

This also implies a winning formula found by Indonesian directors: the adaptation of viral scandals on social media.

Prior to that, on June in Indonesia, the highest film Indonesia was Knit Di Desa Penari, the history of the 2022 horrors about the anxiety of six university students, which came from a popular topic on X. In 2023, Sau Dinen, another felop of horro, adapted from the story X.

Equally popular fairy tales about a more sad conviction: Ipar Adalah Maut, Indonesian film 2024 about the case between man and his daughter -in -law, was sold as a real story adapted from video. The 2022 dramatic series Layangan Putus, about a family torn by a husband who cheated, also received inspiration in the cikt.

Such topics are very taboo in Indonesia, where the adulthood is in prison. A new Criminal Code of the country that came into force across the country next year, Throws sex over marriage – And in his conservative province, the couple is already publicly broken down for pre -loving sex.

But in this culture of religious conservatism, according to experts, interest in domestic scandals flourishes.

With the help of social media, stories that were mostly limited by the gossip of the neighborhood, now create a viral “Pelocor” content, slang-terrain for home use and often used keyword in videos with wives confronted with the hostess of the husband.

“With movies about these scandals, people are given a place to look into someone else’s home problems,” the BBC Indonesian SM Gietty Tambunan tells.

“Especially because of this conservative culture, people become even more interesting.”

Faith, a 42-year-old housewife in Jakarta, watched the history of the norm because she became viral. It made her “angry with her husband and mother,” she says BBC Indonesian.

“When I realized that this story is made in the movies, I wanted to see how tough these two people were to normal,” she says.

In the cinema, she shouted into the culmination of the movie when the norm made her way through the crowd outside her home to find her half -dressed husband and mother in the room.

The delicate scenes of the husband and mothers of the norms resist, and then realized that their novel was scandalized and captured by the audience.

“Probably, after the shooting, they will feel bad,” – commented the tick on the stage where the couple kissed. The film is a friend who discovers an illegal couple when she catches them in an act.

Ms. Gayeti warns that these stories have a dangerous tendency to complicate the guilt mostly on women, not to cheat. In these enthusiasm between the legal husband and the illegal lover, “a person seeks no punishment,” she says.

But what the film highlights is the participation of the main character in the creative process, the screenwriter of the film Okuro tells BBC Indonesian. It also stands behind the script for IPAR Adalah Maut and Layangan Putus, two other inspired Tiktok Productions.

After intense discussions with the norm about her feelings and history of her mother, “the main story of the film remains broadly consistent,” says OKO, though she added that “certainly certain parts that were dramatized to play with the emotions of the audience.”

“This movie is also a way to release emotions and have fun. Therefore, when they come out of the cinema, there are things they feel and talk about.”

Today, the true norm works as an outsourcing worker in her hometown Serang.

Her mother, Richan, returned home to live with her family after an eight -month prison for adultery. Rosie, a former husband of the norm, was sentenced to nine months in prison.

During the emergence of the press for the film in February, the norm stated that it was encouraged by the reports she received from other victims of the husband and wife.

“When I survived (right), I thought,” Why did a man be closer to me? ” Or I just experience it? “It turns out that when I was speaking, many people survived the same thing,” the norm said.

OKA, the film screenwriter, repeats the feminist message about the film. This is “a small step for women to tell about betrayal and the violence they face,” she says.

Mrs. Gayeti says that films such as the norm based on true stories about internal troubles can serve as a “space for expanding rights and opportunities for women” in the patriarchal society and give them “courage to speak.”

The norm refused to interview BBC Indonesia, although it continues to share life updates on its account in public social media – to lie support from Indonesians.

This month, she posted photos on Tiktok, showing her and a cake sent by a film production company. He was met with hundreds of wishes.

“You deserve the world,” one user wrote.

Another comment was read: “Mistress Norm, having viewed your life story at the cinema, I really wanted to hug you.”