Today, let's talk about the movie "White Tiger".
The film title The White Tiger (2021), alias White Tiger.
This is an Indian film by Netflix, based on the novel of the same name by Indian author Aravind Adiga, "The White Tiger" is also a "New York Times" bestseller and a 2008 Man Booker Award-winning novel.
Barrang Halevi is a low-caste person in India. His dream is to become a servant of the local landlord's family, away from the lowly caste jobs. After self-recommendation, Halevi became a servant of the landlord's house as he wished, and also saw a bigger world. As the working hours became longer, Halevi's vision became wider and his mind became more active. He looked forward to this opportunity to transcend caste and realize the value of life.
The title "White Tiger" comes from the legend of the hometown of the protagonist Barran Halevi.
Legend has it that the white tiger is a magical animal, and only one white tiger appears in the same generation.
Being able to become a white tiger means becoming the one-of-a-kind son of heaven.
When you first watch the film, people will mistakenly think that this is a story of a low-caste counter-attack. Maybe it is an Indian version of "Indian Partner", and maybe it is an Indian version of "Parasite". But the story develops slowly and gradually changes its flavor.
The whole story is not an inspirational story of hard work to get rich or a bloody story of breaking the shackles of class. It is a crime story where a person can be as daring as he is capable. Barran Halevi, who pretends to be a white tiger, is really just a criminal in a chicken coop.
India, which claims to be a democratic country, has followed the caste system for thousands of years. In order to maintain their rule, the Aryans established four castes in combination with Hinduism: Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Sudra.
Brahmins are at the head of the four castes, full-time priests and nobles, with all privileges and the right to be educated; Kshatriya is the class to which the royal family, nobles, and gentry belong, engaged in military affairs and politics; Vaishya is the third class, engaged in agriculture , animal husbandry, handicrafts, commerce and other production undertakings of the general civilian class; Sudra is the lowest status of the four surnames, responsible for serving meals, cooking, craftsmen, and is the most populous caste. In addition, there are Dalits under the four surnames, that is, "untouchables".
Balang Halevi is from the Shudra family. The family is engaged in heavy labor, and all income must be handed over to the landlord. It is common for him to be beaten and scolded.
Barran Halevi is talented and intelligent, and has shown a talent for learning since he was a child, so he is also known as a "white tiger". When others were still thinking of hard work, he thought of learning to drive to improve his skills, and then to give landowners a job to improve their pay. With this love of tossing, he successfully walked out of the small village, followed the master into the major cities of India, and saw the operation process of politics and society.
Barran Halevi realized the truth that there are only two ways for people at the bottom of a democratic society to achieve class leap and change their destiny. One is criminal, the other is political.
In essence, these two points are reconciled.
In order to absorb more profits, business tycoons began to lobby politicians and influence policy making. Politicians are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality and climb to the position of real power, the purpose is to earn money by taking bribes.
By being a driver, Balang Halevi has the opportunity to glimpse the unspoken rules of money-power trading, and his small eyes have seen too many open secrets.
Despite seeing too much injustice, Barran Halevi has always made it his duty to be a faithful servant. He felt that it was a great honor to be freed from his lowly job and become a driver for his master, and he had absolutely no qualms about it.
But his second son, Ashok, who is in charge of driving and waiting, is a rich second generation who has returned from studying in the United States. Ashok's girlfriend Pinney is also a new woman who has accepted the idea of freedom and equality in the United States since childhood. Ashok and Pinney have been trying to treat the Indian people as equals, which makes all classes brainwashed by the caste system uncomfortable.
The caste system is a good metaphor in "White Tiger" - "chicken coop".
Chicken is a very magical animal. Although the number of chickens in the world far exceeds the number of humans, chickens all live in chicken coops. Chickens live in chicken coops all their lives, eating, sleeping and laying eggs. They never think about resisting. Even if humans kill chickens and shed their feathers in front of chickens, the remaining chickens never think about resisting.
The caste system easily brainwashes the Indian people and traps all Indians in a chicken coop of ideas. It seems that this absurd caste system has been justified since ancient times.
When Barran Halevi realized the chicken coop existed, the chicken coop ceased to exist.
The two faintings in Barran Halaway's films are inseparable from his realization that life is equal. His father was cremated while he was alive, and the white tiger pacing back and forth made him realize the equality of life. The lie that the rulers lied to maintain is full of loopholes, and it is maintained by brainwashing the lower class and denying the right to education, and Balang Halevi gradually realized that no one is born inferior.
It was Ashok and Pinney who made Barron Halevi realize the existence of the chicken coop.
Before meeting Ashok and Pinney, Barran Halevi never regarded himself as an equal human being, working hard without complaining and being beaten and kicked without complaint.
But after Balang Halevi realized that human beings are created equal, he chose to attack the person who was best for him.
In order to achieve class leap, Balang Halevi thought to find the second generation of the rich, and began to accumulate his own primitives.
And the story starts from here, and the values also begin to go wrong, which makes people feel very unpleasant.
Getting used to seeing all kinds of weirdness in India, Balang Halevi has also become a member of the weirdness. It is understandable that he chose to save himself, but his approach is very disgusting.
Fighting rice to raise kindness and bearing rice to raise revenge, Balang Halevi chose the good person who was the easiest to bully. It can only be said that he has won the essence of the ruling class's scorn.
In addition, a lot of Chinese elements were added to the film. Maybe the third buddies think that both countries are big Asian countries, so there is nothing wrong with putting them together in the film.
No matter how incredible the Chinese elements in the film are, it can only be said that the third brother's brain circuit can always bring surprises to people.
Doumian bears the hatred of rice,
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