Review of the film LEGENDA KELAM MALING KUNDANG (SMOTHERED, ID 2025), directed by Rafki Hidayat and Kevin Rahardjo, that highlights how this contemporary reinterpretation of the Malin Kundang myth from West Sumatra, Indonesia, and the Malay world in Southeast Asia, reconfigures the religious narrative through the perspective of the “disobedient child,” exposing the social, economic, and psychological conditions that shape his actions.