COMMENT | If there is a movie that is supposed to be a tribute to frontliners who have been battling the Covid-19 pandemic for the past one and a half years, then the local movie Frontliner that is currently streaming on Netflix is not it.
Directed by Razif Rashid, the movie is about four frontliners - two police officers, a doctor, and a teacher who runs a school of some sort.
The movie is supposed to show the struggles that these people experience during the height of the pandemic.
Beto Kusyairy plays Inspektor Zul - who isn’t really a police officer but from an Agensi Keselamatan Negara (AKN)? He is married to teacher Nadia who is played by Farah Ahmad and they have a teenage son.
Inspektor Zul rarely gets to go home because he is mostly driving around a residential area capturing teenagers who violate curfew and...