The background setting of the film is amazing. A group of British retired elderly people, all unsatisfactory, come to an Indian hotel by accident to prepare for a long-term vacation, but when they arrive, they find that the so-called luxury hotel is just a half-cut project with grass everywhere. The ending was quite inspirational. The old people either fulfilled their wish and left their hands to return to the West, or took root in India and began the second spring of their lives. By the way, they also helped the young Indians to achieve a very clichéd love counterattack. In all fairness, the collision between the elderly and the culture is not an easy topic to deduce. A light comedy is qualified for this. The main characters are all familiar faces, the acting is impeccable, the laughs are enough, and the Indian breath is also quite authentic. So, how about disappointment?
For Western culture, India is a very special country, and it brings more than just a strong "feeling of foreign land." On the one hand, a typical Indian city will never lack a dirty environment, with beggars everywhere, chaotic streets, and crowded people. The only reason for people's existence seems to be to crowd together millions. Women are walking barefoot in alleys full of excrement, and children are playing naked by the garbage dump. Interpersonal communication is also a disaster. The sincerity of unfamiliar Indians is usually questionable. All this is enough to shock and perplex ordinary residents of a wealthy country, and may also be accompanied by extreme discomfort. However, on the other hand, for some unknown reason, India has a mysterious attraction to the West. Those Western literary works about India often reveal such an idea: all the chaos, smelly, and crowdedness in this country, Behind poverty, among the mud, dust, cow dung, and broken houses, there is something hidden, a philosophy of life, and a great divinity. . . And this kind of thing is exactly the piece of imposition that is missing or missing in the Western-style life. Although it sounds strange, don’t thousands of Chinese who know nothing about Tibet believe that they can find their lost souls there?
The mediocrity of the film lies in its inability to break out of this frame. The director even made an annotation for this mysterious philosophy of life: "everything will be alright in the end." (I never seem to hear this sentence in India) When everything revolves around this sentence, the real India is reduced to a bowl of curry-flavored chicken soup for the soul, becoming a stage for a group of British old men and women to find the true meaning of life, or to be more precise, a piece is optional The background board only. Even if the director reluctantly inserted a tacky love story, he could not change the image of India. The vase in this film positioned
my favorite character in the film. On the contrary, it was the lady who returned to England in the end. In the film, she frankly asked another. An old British "how can you bear this courtry", although the latter gave a very small and fresh answer, until the end, the film did not give a strong enough answer to this question. In the film, the lady is finally treated as a contrast, standing still, unable to embrace a new life. However, all this is really as simple as shown in the film, so of course, if the ending is reversed, most people will eventually return to the UK, only one person persisted, at least for me, it may be more contagious
. After the movie, I went to a restaurant to eat. After half of my meal, I suddenly felt that the film was like British cooking. It was an extremely rare ingredient, but the final meal was really mediocre.
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