Si Doel Anak Modern

(title translation: Doel the Modern Kid)

After his graduation from school, Si Doel is jobless and idle in the village. He falls in love with Kristin, his friend in the city who has become a model. Doel persuades his mother to sell their land for a business investment in the city. Soon he joins the car business with his friend, Sapii. And then Sinyo, an old friend who has many wives, shows up, as he wants Doel’s money to buy some land. Doel agrees on condition that they help him to reconcile with Kristin. They do not believe that Doel is being serious, so at first they make fun of Doel by teaching him to be "modern." Doel follows their advice. After noticing Achmad, Kristin’s boyfriend who has an Afro hairstyle, he follows his style too. Kristin likes the funny Doel, who always entertains her when she is upset with Achmad, a playboy rock musician. When she breaks up with Achmad, Kristin asks Doel to go to Bandung with her. Doel sees it as his big chance. Sapii and Sinyo are confused, as they have to pay advances for the purchase of land. Achmad is also confused. So they all go to Bandung. Achmad’s men gang up on Doel so Kristin intervenes and returns to Achmad, who asks her to marry him. But when Kristin reads some gossip news that Achmad will marry another girl, she gets angry. Doel thinks that he has won and goes to Kristin’s place with a procession. When he sees Kristin’s surprise, he realises that he is doing a stupid thing. He runs away in a car and crashes into a ravine and is hospitalised. He tells his mother that he does not want to be a modern man anymore, but the words are pulled back at the sight of Kristin coming. Director Sjuman Djaya intended to mock the modern attitude with the negative traits: the competition to get a wife, to keep up appearances and so on. The title of Si Doel Anak Modern is also crossed out and is replaced with Si Doel Sok Modern.