British humour and typical British arrogance and ambivalence

Ned 2022-04-23 07:02:23

I have to admit that this is a very good-looking movie with not much profound content, and it is not because of the appearance of handsome men and beautiful women and how moving the story is. It's good, I think, because of its characteristic British humour, and the inconsistency of the British, but the extraordinary adaptability of the environment.

I have worked with a group of British people for a few years and they give me the feeling of being capricious. Some are more hateful, some are cute. It's more that sometimes it's so hateful that people don't want to see it a second time, and sometimes it's cute like a child. They are a complex of contradictions.

For example, Mrs. Donnelly, she was a housekeeper for rich people in the UK, but she was a racist. She refused to see her by black doctors, thinking that the color on their bodies could not be washed away. When I saw that scene, I was not Thought it was a cute joke, such blatantly racist remarks even extended to her ranting about the ills of Indians, brown faces, hordes, etc. to the guy pushing the wheelchair, and her visit to the MARIGOLD HOTEL room He exclaimed when he saw an Indian. ........Although I know it's a comedy and I can't analyze their words and deeds in such a serious light, at these times I really have contempt for these self-righteous British people, despite the fact that They are nothing in their own country. When they come to India, China and other countries, they have to ask, "Is it distilled? Is it sterilized?" . It seems that the people of any place other than their country are inferior animals. ...... But at the end of the film, this extreme racist grandma has become the deputy manager of this hotel in India, which is really contradictory, and what's even more ridiculous is that she doesn't feel how narrow-minded she was before and shallow. ...that's the British, living in inconsistencies.


JUDI DENCH's performance is very impressive, and she plays a person who lives on her own and even got a job as a cultural consultant in India. This kind of old lady is very likeable.
Probably in one ethnic group, there are all kinds of people, some are extreme, some are tolerant, some are narrow, and some are open. That Mrs. Jean who couldn't stay even a day and was in a hurry to go back to the UK, even in traffic jams, resolutely broke up with her husband and took a tricycle to the airport by herself. As a judge, ... this is also a kind of British woman.

My favorite is the judge. India is the end of his life. In order to find the love of the year, he came to India and has no plans to go back. He was the first man with the least distance from India, he knew the game of cricket and knew that there is always room in India. Finally, he performed a water burial in the hands of his beloved.
Of course, the other two men are also cute. This is also a characteristic of typical British people. In my eyes, British men are not particularly annoying. They are more willing to touch life and accept new things. DOUGLAS, skinny like a bamboo pole, but his legs are always straight like a telephone pole, he is gentle and helpful, sharing sandwiches with Indians and visiting. As for the old and pretty grandpa, holding a sex book, dancing on the balcony and taking a shower, dancing with soap foam all over his body, making people feel the beauty of the sunset, love is regardless of age, as long as you pursue new life.

Indeed, I also admit that the actors' performances are brilliant, without the slightest contrivance, which makes people live to hate or love.

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  • Douglas Ainslie: I invested our, well, my retirement money in our daughter's Internet company. She assured me that as soon as the startup actually, um, started up and the conversion from virtual to actual became sufficiently viable, then she'd be able to pay it all back.

    Evelyn: I'm not sure I understand what most of those words mean.

    Douglas Ainslie: Well, it turns out neither did she.

  • Evelyn: [about their new environment] Initially you're overwhelmed. But gradually you realize it's like a wave. Resist, and you'll be knocked over. Dive into it, and you'll swim out the other side.