Motif focuses on a police investigation and its most obvious innovation is the female perspective that the director imposes. Protagonist Dewi (Sharifah Amani) is a police officer who is sent from the capital of Kuala Lumpur to a provincial area, Tanah Merah (lit. “Red Earth”), to investigate the disappearance of the young daughter of the local community’s richest family. From the beginning, her arrival is greeted with distrust by her male colleagues, who are doubly annoyed by the fact of having an outsider who is also a woman intrude in the community.
Zaiton seduces a drifter named Amran into murdering her elderly husband, Ibrahim, to get his money and land.
Khalid Salleh (29 Februari 1948 – 23 Julai 2018) is a Malaysian actor, writer, poet, theatre activist and a medicine seller. His success was being nominated and won the Best Actor Award at the 51st Asia Pacific Film Festival(FFAP) in 1998 at Taipei, Taiwan for his role in Jogho. This marks him the second Malaysian actor to won the award after the late P Ramlee won it in his role Anak-ku Sazali at the 4th FFAP edition on 1956 held in Tokyo, Japan.
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