"We look for the key all our lives, but the door is always open." After watching the two-hour film, I still feel unfulfilled. The themes and ideas that this film wants to express are numerous and grand, India's class oppression and caste system, seeking freedom and independence and Deep-rooted feudal ideology, unawakened resistance and unconscious oppression, belief and reality, etc. From the perspective of the memories of Baram, who is destined to become a white tiger, it tells how an unwilling person in the lowest caste family crossed the class step by step and released his inner freedom and darkness at the same time. Just like the chickens waiting to be killed in the chicken coop, they do not feel afraid or want to escape after seeing their own kind being plucked and decomposed, because they have determined that it is an inevitable fate. Similarly, the slaves of the lower castes are scolded and driven out without feeling oppressed. , even if the key is handed to them, they will curse and send it back. The chicken coop in reality can't hold the soul who wants to break through freely, but if the ideology accepts it deeply, the chicken coop will be indestructible and tightly Imprison everyone who is enslaved and does not know how to resist. "It's always been like this doesn't mean it should be like this." Like what Ping Ji said to Balam, "I jumped out of that environment, so what do you really want?" Although this sentence did not really wake up the male protagonist, the seed of true freedom was buried in the male protagonist's heart. , he wanted to get out of the closed and backward village and family since he was a child, but he fantasized that a good master would make him a free slave. After his hopes were broken again and again, he realized that the identity of a slave was imprisoned in him. The chicken coop in the mind, the ultimate fate is just to use it to face the crime, and it is useless and kicked away. Although Baram's method of accumulating original capital is also dark and brutal, this is also a dark version of "The Shawshank Redemption". The means of gaining freedom may be light or dark, but there must be a determination to break through the chicken coop in order to become a a bird.
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