In addition to the usual Indian humor, the film has a more sober perspective. It's more of a love story than an entrepreneurial story. Following the male protagonist's perspective, I saw the beautiful world in which modern Indian women live. The male protagonist, Lakshmi, is from a poor family and only got married at a very young age. His wife, Gloria, burst into tears when cutting onions. He immediately made her an ugly and cute mechanical onion-cutting monkey. His wife was awkward on the front bar of the bicycle, so he made her an armchair and welded it to the back seat. Soon, the beauty of the newlywed life was unexpectedly shattered, and Lakshmi found that the menstrual cloth his wife used was not only dirty, but also hidden under the sari to dry. According to Indian tradition, menstruating women are not allowed to sleep in the room, but can only sleep on a small couch in the corridor. The use of cloth to solve menstrual problems, coupled with the traditional thought that "menstrual women are unclean", led women to stay in the yard and not be able to do anything on this day. Lakshmi was happy to lend his wife the money, despite the ridiculously high prices of the pharmacy pads. People here are taboo to talk about menstruation-related matters in public. Even the sale of sanitary pads must be wrapped in newspapers and handed out quietly from under the counter. But the wife would rather use dirty cloth and risk gynecological diseases than use such an expensive thing. From here, Lakshmi embarked on a journey of making her own sanitary pads. Made, tried, made foolish, misunderstood, ridiculed, and even driven out of the village as a pervert, Lakshmi went farther and farther, but his goal in centrifugal force was getting closer and closer. If at first he made the pads out of love for his wife, then when he saw other women facing the same predicament, his love began to sublimate, from caring for his sisters and neighbors to looking at the whole country. The images of women in the film are very rich, the pure, kind and conservative wife Gregory, the conservative to the old-fashioned sisters, the mother and the neighbors, the relatively open-minded female medical students, the brave, enthusiastic and independent college student "singer" Parry. , a woman beaten by a drunk husband every day. India has a caste system, female medical students and Parry should be women of the upper caste, and they are the few people who use sanitary pads in the film. Indian women, the majority of the lower caste population, have few opportunities for higher education and even a decent job as an adult. Ignorance, poverty and sickness make these women's living conditions even more miserable. At the end of the film, Lakshmi's speech at UN Women was very touching. He has no education, only a few simple English words, but he expresses the meaning very clearly. print Only 12% of the 500 million menstruating women use pads, and some people don't even use cloth strips, but use leaves or soil ash to solve it. Dirty menstrual environment makes them frequently troubled by gynecological diseases, and their bodies are weak. He said, 'I give women two more months of life every year. Because of the 5 days of menstruation each month, they can only stay in the corner and do nothing for 60 days out of 12 months of the year. Now with this cheap, hygienic and safe pad, they can do whatever they want like a man. Lakshmi's pad-making machine can provide 1 million jobs for women across the country and can improve women's economic status. It is foreseeable that this sanitary habit of using sanitary pads will also have a far-reaching impact, not only starting to talk about hygiene and caring for the body, but also breaking the traditional thinking that menstrual women are unclean or even ominous. I really like a sentence in Lakshmi's speech: "When your woman is strong, your mother is strong, and your sister is strong, then the country is strong." From childhood love to great love, this is a touching film.
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