 The film's subplot also portrays similar gangsterism issues among majority of young Kelantanese adolescents men in Kuala Lumpur in 1990s, but narrated from different perspective with its sole attempt is to determine issues related to socioeconomic that is contributing towards rural to urban migration and its consequences to behavioral and emotional issues among migrant adolescents.The two main character, Buchek and Jaha, the former being protagonist and the latter being antagonist, besides their main roles as the movie plot thickens, use both active and narrative monologue in alternate since the beginning of the movie to further refined the storytelling direction.Mixed views were given by some of local blogs and local entertainment portal, especially the exaggerated rape scene but the film was highly praised by internationally claimed local film director, the late Yasmin Ahmad on her blog with quotes "Suffice to say that we left Mid-Valley feeling very happy and hopeful about the future of Malaysian cinema."