My favorite part of the movie was the finale.
Not because Geeta finally won the world championship, after all, in this kind of story, if the protagonist can't win the world championship, it is more interesting. What really impressed me was the absence of my father, who has always been an absolute authority, in the finals. However, it is precisely because of his father's absence that Geeta has the opportunity to control the game according to his own wishes, not listening to anyone, no longer an appendage of his husband's father or coach, but his true self, with choices and abilities female athlete.
Through absence, and in a sense of patriarchy, the film's pursuit of women's rights and women's independence is truly realized.
At the beginning of the film, I only see a fanatical father, Mahavir imposing his dreams on his daughters, bossy, stubborn, and cold-blooded, forcing them to get up every morning to exercise, and forcibly lose their hair, regardless of whether they are in the village. In school, how much grievances must be endured in school, grabbing them to wrestle every day, and never asking them if they really like it.
At the beginning of the film, I thought it was the father who gave up the daughters' right to choose their own lives.
It wasn't until that wedding, when I saw the sad and lonely face of the bride in everyone's carnival, and heard when the teenage bride cried and said she was envious of Gita and Babetta having such a father, I didn't realize that this is India, It is a country where women are a bit more humble than objects.
We can’t talk about anything out of context, in China, such an authoritarian father would of course be reprimanded, but in India, it’s one of the few that has the real potential to change the fate of a daughter and give her a way to choose her future.
As we often say, boy, I want you to study hard, not so that you can really achieve academic success, but so that you can stand in a higher place, see a bigger world, and truly have choices. that power. After all, when we are at the bottom of the society, there is no choice. We are like cabbage in the market, picking and choosing, blindly following the crowd, enduring the fiddle of fate, without the right to choose the future .
I have a very unpleasant habit of watching movies. I always like to ask one more question when the protagonist finally gets a happy ending after all the hardships.
For example, when I watched Beauty and the Beast, I wondered, if in the end Beauty didn't fall in love with the Beast, would she become the target of thousands of people, even if it wasn't her fault that she didn't fall in love with a lion .
Or, in movies like "Wrestle, Dad", I can't help but think that the person who was defeated by the protagonist may have a more tragic and moving past, why, from the moment he came on stage, all the audience was Expect him to fail?
Many good-looking movies can't be watched when they are disturbed by such bizarre thoughts.
While watching this movie, I was also thinking, what if Geeta fails in the end? What if she tried her best and failed to win the world title? We were moved by her struggle story, but the real game doesn't read the story!
However, this kind of questioning did not change the shock the movie brought to me. I even thought that if Geeta had just entered the national team and failed several times in a row, he still did not realize his own problems, and finally retired in a dull manner, without so many regrets. His father was angry for a while and disappointed for a while, and everything would be fine. past. The important thing is that Geeta's life has long since changed because of the years of training and competition, and because of the vast world he saw during his life in the country.
If there is any regret, it is that she only changed herself, but failed to change the attitude of the whole India towards girls. The historical and cultural precipitation of a country is not something that can be changed casually.
Anyway, admire Aamir Khan's courage.
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