I wanna drift! I wanna drift! I wanna drift!
I always wanted to learn how to drift (watch the trailer and you’ll know why). In fact, I just learned how to drift in the Daytona USA 1 arcade game. A friend of mine taught me after losing several races to him. It’s quite easy; the secret is to know the map, you must know when to drift and when to just turn. In Daytona USA 1, the best map to practice drifting is the advanced map, then select manual transmission. When you’re about to turn shift to gear number 1 and turn the steering wheel towards the direction you want to turn. When you turn to that direction shift to 3rd gear then to 4th gear. Easy right?
But this post isn’t about drifting. It’s about KL drift. Ironically, KL drift reminds me more of Lord of the rings rather than Tokyo drift. No, the lead character isn’t a small hobbit and neither does he look anything close to Elijah Wood. The supporting character isn’t a fat hobbit either. He is actually a thin tall guy. The similarity lies in the story. The drifting part is actually just sugar coats to the story. I don’t want to be a spoiler but I’ll guess ill tell the story anyway (hey, you can chose not to read this blog entry yet, if your planning to watch the movie). The lead character in the story is guy named Zack, he wanted the drug syndicates to stop selling drugs in his town so he challenged the drug leader to a race around the city. If Zack loses, he gives up his car, but if he wins, the drug leader and his gang leaves town. But there is another parallel story happening. There is a conflict between Zack and his best friend Sham. Sham really likes Zack’s ex-girlfriend and she likes him too, but since Zack isn’t cool about it, Sham tried to push her away. Zack hated Sham because he thought that they were dating, but in reality Sham was really loyal friend. Even though Zack already beaten up and pushed Sham away many times, Sham would always be there for Zack when he needed him. There was even this one time when Sham risked his life to rescued Zack from being killed by the syndicates. During the last part of the scene, Zack won the race but the drug leader didn’t keep his promise. Instead he made Zack’s life so miserable; he killed one of Zack’s friends. At the very last part, the drug leader wanted to run over Zack with a speeding sports car, but Sham traded his life for Zack by pushing him out of the way. Until now I still don’t know if Sham is alive as the last scene ended with Sham in comma after being hit by a car.
Told you it was like Frodo and S(h)am, Frodo was a ring bearer tasked to destroy the ring in mount Mordor. Frodo had a faithful friend which is Sam, who even though he was pushed away many times and falsely accused, still remained loyal to him, even to the point of risking his own life to save Frodo.
~ nobody
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