The title is of course exaggerated. The so-called two people correspond to the sentence summed up by the protagonist himself.
From the poor to the top of society, there are only two opportunities for crime and politics.
The female minister who appeared in the front of the film is obviously the former. Under the blessing of power, she is arrogant and domineering, and brazenly asks for bribes from the rich. She bluntly said that she donated money to D or herself. In the grassroots rural villages, she tricked the "brainless" villagers under the guise of a shtick and helped her win the election. The result of an election victory is to ask the wealthy to donate more money.
The occasional mention of politics is also the social background of the film. For example, our protagonist Baram repeatedly emphasized that India is the largest democratic country in the world. Akshaw also satirized that this is the largest democracy, and they had just ended their bribes when they passed the Gandhi statue.
Balam was born in the largest democratic country, but his family has no money, and there seems to be little change in birth, old age, sickness and death. The vast rural areas are still the same extreme poverty as in the feudal era, and the exploitation and control of resources by the large rural landowners, these landowners not only have Vast land, increased private rents and taxes, and they even directly controlled the life and death of slaves and their families.
So the servants did not dare to take a step beyond the thunderous pool, almost the same as those chickens trapped in cages to be slaughtered. It is like using the invisible rules of society to firmly restrain the people at the bottom of everyone. The road of resistance of the poor is pinned on crime and politics, but it is too vague, and almost no one can cross the two gates of the caste system and the family. If he wants to be self-fulfilling, maybe he can go abroad, be American or someone else, and start his own life.
However, if the Indian people go abroad, if the family is in India, they still cannot get rid of the Indian character, a feudal system that has not gone through the revolution, and the personal relationship continues a set of content that was decades or even hundreds of years ago.
Balam is the latter, reaching the top through crime and having a decent life. He learned to drive to become the No. 2 driver, and then squeezed out the Muslim driver to become the official No. 1. After becoming No. 1, he treated his master respectfully, understood his identity, and placed his position last. Even tacitly convicting the hostess, he didn't dare to resist, he had no motivation and no idea. Neglected, oppressed, and humiliated.
What can I do if I feel unwilling? Watching your father's ending repeat itself in you?
But he is a white tiger. Anyone who watches the movie knows that he will not be so obedient all the time. There is only one white tiger in the generation.
After he learned that he was going to be replaced, he was completely awakened. The male host is a spiritual enlightener who tells him not to be servile, while the hostess rebels against the whole system. Although she was powerless in the end and chose to walk away, she also inspired Balam,
The caste system is bullshit! You shouldn't believe this!
It is impossible for him to endure these imprisonments for the rest of his life. But he can't go back to America and become an American. But he can also have the opportunity to be an Indian at the top, in their own way, and these are the two experiences he summed up.
The scenes of his fainting are interspersed with the resistance and hardships of all his slavery. Balam saw the white tiger, this kind of creature he had known since he was a child. The white tiger was pacing in the cage. It was imprisoned but would not resist. The majesty and heavy footsteps of the white tiger made Balam faint again. Once fainted at his father's funeral, he knew that fighting for freedom was futile, but this time he changed, and he decided to fight.
There is only one white tiger in a generation, and my Balam is this white tiger.
I remembered the first half of my life, when I was born in a rural family at the bottom of my life and relied on my father to ride a tricycle. I had a talent for reading, but my family stopped me from working.
After observing the rich, he said, there are always plenty of opportunities for the rich, so it doesn't matter if they slip away.
The second half of Balam is the practice of this sentence. The family regards it as a tool. After recognizing the master, they voluntarily become slaves. Akshaw never regards him as an equal. Akshaw in the end Said that he did not go to the United States because he did not want to pretend to be another person. After all, his upbringing in the United States could not get rid of the mentality under his family education.
Akshaw is probably the image of an Indian returnee with Western courtesy and vision. But in India all he has is family power and what he does internet or whatever is almost outright rejected. He didn't have the courage to go to Bangalore without the coal mining business.
From the beginning, he was equal to Balam, had close contact with children, and had compassion for the lower class, but after a long time or his wife divorced him, he was completely Indianized by the influence of his eldest brother and father.
From his refusal to engage in the Indian master-servant relationship to the acquiescence of Balam's conviction for his wife, and finally to directly scolding him for being a bastard, when Balam gave coins to beggars, he would scold him loudly, thinking that he did not keep slaves 's rules. Akshaw's values have been changed by the real India and the people around him, or his values have been corrected
For example, when Akershaw was angry, Balam thought of serving his host a salad of okra because he showed a love for it at the night market. Akshaw threw the bowl directly and showed no mercy, and his heart was truly touched from that moment.
The red leather bag teased his lust, and every chance turned into a big bag full of bills. He thought about what happened after escaping, so he rejected the idea and told the truth. Akershaw didn't change him because of his confession, let him go home to rest and give him a vacation.
In fact, at this time, he had given up his resistance, and he also did what other drivers did, cheating the owner of money to get revenge on him.
Akershaw's change of driver was the straw that broke the camel's back, which cost him his life. In the end, Balam succeeded. He wrote a letter to a certain leader, saying that the world domination of white people is over. This point is quite deep, how did Balam accumulate funds? He solved a turtle problem, is he just white people? Hahahahaha, don't dare to say more.
I don't know how the novel depicts such a satirical world system.
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