If I don't stay in India for a while, I really don't know how powerful the caste system is.
I have been to India, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Calcutta have stayed for some time, and met all kinds of Indians. Seeing those scenes in this movie feels very real, it's really what I see in India.
At that time, when I saw the slums and beggars full of beggars, I wondered how they could live so peacefully. Once, a local Indian friend invited us to dinner. Seeing that the driver didn't enter the restaurant, we asked him to come in! Indian friends repeatedly said no, let him eat outside.
Later I learned that it was all because of the existence of the "caste system". People of lower castes cannot live and eat with people of higher castes. People of lower castes are content with their own identity. No matter how hard they try, they cannot surpass their castes, so they are just like that.
The movie "White Tiger" wrote about such a low-caste character. First of all, I have to praise the male protagonist. His acting is really natural and real, and he is too cunning, inferior, and vicious like that of a small character. The description of his family in the film and the description of the rural life in which he was born make people feel very vivid and vivid.
More importantly, such a small person actually has such a little "philosophical thinking", knowing that they live like a "chicken cage" and cannot break through the limitations of the "chicken cage". He wants to change himself, so the first step is to climb a rich man and become a driver for the rich man. This is his first "turn over" shortcut to change himself.
After he achieved this goal, he first discovered from the previous old driver that even if he worked for several decades, if his identity remained unchanged, even if he replaced the old driver, he would still be a driver in the end. Then, there was the night crash at the beginning of the film, and he was forced to take the blame for his master and almost went to prison. After that, he accompanied his master to New Delhi to bribe officials everywhere, and the bag full of money stimulated his desire. The hostess seems to be generous, but in fact is sympathetic, the little consolation money to appease him, and the one-way toll paid by the host to let him go home, all let this little man see through the selfishness, corruption, stinginess and hypocrisy of the rich.
Some viewers think that the boy who came back from the United States is not bad. He cares about the male protagonist, eats out with the male protagonist, and sings together at the male protagonist's residence. But in fact, the longer the male protagonist is with him, the more he sees the master's ugliness, cowardice, and hypocrisy. Finally, when he sees that the master wants to change the driver and let him go, he becomes "angry from the bottom of his heart and hates it." Living with courage", at the cost of the lives of the family, killing unprepared masters, and taking away the money used for bribes. In this way, he took the second shortcut of "turning over" to change his identity.
Obviously, in India, it is impossible for people of lower castes to be able to achieve the ideal of life to a higher status through their own efforts and struggles like in China. This is what the male protagonist envied the Chinese at the beginning and wanted to write a letter to the Chinese Prime Minister root cause. From the sons and daughters who were educated in the United States, he found that the "freedom and equality" that the Americans talked about were actually hypocritical things and could not make him "turn over". When it came time to sacrifice him, they did not hesitate Will abandon him, will not say a word for him.
Some people think that Brother Gongzi died a little unjustly, just like some people think that some landowners died unjustly during the land reform in China. Actually, didn't they see Brother Gongzi bribing officials everywhere before? Did you see the son ruthlessly asking the driver to take the blame? Seeing that the son-in-law has a disagreement, do you want to find someone to replace the male lead? Or do you see how the family of Gongzige understands the situation of the male protagonist's family in order to control the male protagonist? Think about how the male protagonist's family was brutally silenced later, but how brutal the son-in-law's family was. Although the son-in-law received an American education, when his family committed evil, was he innocent?
Of course, we are opposed to killing and robbery to achieve self-sufficiency in wealth, or to obtain the first pot of gold, but Americans often defend themselves or cover themselves up for this. For example, in many American movies, thieves tend to grab a Go free after a fortune. Perhaps it is because of the low level of case solving and case handling in India, that the male protagonist can be transformed and "turned over" himself. But obviously, this kind of "turning over" still did not jump out of the "chicken cage" of the "caste system". The male protagonist just managed dozens of drivers and became a "white tiger" among the "low caste" crowd.
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