The work of Indian Bollywood actor, director, and producer Aamir Khan rarely disappoints.
Whether it is "The Stars on Earth" directed and acted in a plain way, or the inspirational story "Wrestling, Dad" that breaks the Indian tradition, it can always make people feel humanistic care.
I also admire "I'm not the God of Medicine".
From a commercial point of view, these films have wonderful stories, but they are different from other purely commercial films. To a certain extent, these works are willing to use their commerciality to promote the progress of the society in which they are located, which is very rare. .
In most movies, it is difficult to do both. Either it is purely an after-dinner entertainment product that can make viewers' hormones soar or laugh, such as "Wolf Warrior 2" and "Thailand"; The social responsibility comes, but the entertainment is not enough, and everyone is impatient to watch it, such as "Hundred Birds Chaofeng".
We can't blame the audience for not wanting to appreciate works that have depth and social significance, but everyone is too tired to work, and few people want to go to the cinema to receive education from those heavy topics.
People either want to see Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang laughing all kinds of funny, or they want to see Leng Feng beat the villain to relax, or they want to see a wonderful and immersive story that can temporarily forget the troubles of life.
Movies such as "The White Bird and the Phoenix" are indeed good movies, but choosing a literary film is destined to be a lonely road, which also reflects the rareness of "I am not the God of Medicine", which can reflect the society in commercial films. Problems, to be able to make money while taking social responsibility.
Many of his films have obvious advantages: that is, based on social issues, on the basis of telling good stories, commercial works should try their best to bear social responsibility.
Mystery Superstar is one such movie.
The Indian girl Yin Shiya in the film is an extremely artistically gifted child. Her singing voice is extremely beautiful. Her mother, a housewife, also supports her dream of singing, but her father, who supports the whole family, is an extremely bad person. She is also a domestic abuser of her mother.
Unbearable Yin Xia encouraged her mother to leave her father and insist on pursuing her music dream.
If you simply look at "Mysterious Superstar" by the standard of evaluating a movie, this movie actually doesn't have much to offer. It can be said that the shortcomings of conventional stories are extremely obvious. Basically, you can guess the ending after reading the beginning; every reaction of the characters is also expected.
But the great thing about Aamir Khan is that even if it is an extremely clichéd story, it can be shot well. We will still care about the fate of the characters, be moved by the feelings of the characters, and appreciate Yin Shiya's beautiful singing.
This is a work with the theme of family love and dreams. Too many people sing praises of Yin Xiya's touching relationship with her mother, and too many people admire Yin Xiya's courage to pursue her dreams and resist her father.
But this is not only a work about family love and dreams, but also a work that calls for women's rights and tries to express the social problem of inequality between men and women in India, and the serious phenomenon of male domestic violence against women.
Yin Xia's father is an engineer and the family's source of income. He often needs to travel hard and work overtime, and is away from home all year round.
He is the master of this family, and anyone who is not as good as he wants will be furious. As the "big villain" in the film, in front of Yin Xia and her younger brother, he domestically abused Yin Xia's mother.
He forced Yin Shiya to throw away the laptop that brought so much joy to her. This role is indeed extremely annoying. Even Yin Xia, the protagonist, was not consciously influenced by her father after growing up in this environment.
It is difficult for Yin Xia to control her negative emotions. She has been angry with the people around her many times, which is enough to prove that the family environment has an extremely far-reaching impact on people. Growing up in an environment where her father and mother were violent, Yin Xia and her younger brother will also have different personalities in the future. must be twisted.
Just like HBO's recent "Big Little Lies 2", Perry's domestic violence against Celeste directly affects the two twin sons, they will hurt each other, and they will also attack other girls in school, no The stable violent factor is restless, waiting to burst out at any time.
It's not that Yin Xia's father doesn't love his family. He will also work hard to earn more money, provide a good living environment for his family, and spend twice as much to enroll in remedial classes for Yin Xia, but he doesn't know him fundamentally. Domestic violence is wrong.
Domestic violence can never be forgiven, but we should think about something deeper.
In the film, Yin Xia's mother is a full-time housewife, and all her tasks are to take care of Yin Xia, as well as his younger brother and grandma.
It can be said that Yin Xiya's mother has made great contributions to the family, but in the big environment of India, the labor value of housewives is not recognized. All the sources of income of Yin Xiya's family can be quantified in money. Contributions are all on his father alone.
Domestic violence is a matter of principle and can not be forgiven, but it is not enough to just oppose domestic violence. What is needed is to fundamentally improve the social status of women.
Acknowledging the labor value of housewives is something that must be done to improve the status of women in Indian society.
Doing housework and raising children is no less fortunate than creating material wealth outside. But the problem is that these values cannot be quantified, unlike Yin Xia's father who can clearly use wages to prove his labor, so he can say confidently, "I have worked so hard for so long, and I can't even eat a suitable meal when I get home. what?"
So, how can we fundamentally solve this problem?
That's the biggest regret of this movie. It raises problems, but not solutions, it tells people to fight domestic violence, but it doesn't tell people how to fight domestic violence. Although methods against domestic violence are also proposed in the film, they have little practical significance.
In the film, Yin Xia is an extremely unscientific existence, it's like opening up.
If you only rely on talent, it is not enough to reach the peak of a field. There is not even a plot of her receiving any professional training in the movie. With talent alone, her singing voice is unmatched, which is unimaginable.
A person at the top of any field requires hard work, talent, and professionalism. As soon as Yin Xia debuted, she immediately won the highest award, which is incredible. If it can be arranged that after Yin Xia's talent is discovered, she has learned professional music theory knowledge for a period of time, and has received professional singing training, and Yin Xia will win the award again, which will undoubtedly be more reasonable.
Returning to the topic of opposing domestic violence, Yin Xia can bring opportunities through her talents, so that she can seek help from others, but not every family that suffers from domestic violence has such opportunities, and not every child has her talents.
How can ordinary people living in dire straits change their destiny? Therefore, Yin Xia and her mother's way of fighting for rights is not universal at all. The storyline is essentially a genius dream for ordinary people living at the bottom .
It raises questions, but only offers solutions that have no reference value. Yin Shiya can earn both fame and fortune, and she can live well even without her father, but there are still thousands of ordinary people in India, what should they do?
There are two episodes in the film. One is when Yin Xia found a lawyer and drafted a divorce agreement for her mother. The lawyer told Yin Xia that Yin Xia's mother was not in a good condition because she did not have her own job. Yin Xia's mother refused to leave at first, also because once they left his father, they immediately lost their financial resources.
The other is that Yin Xia's mother is illiterate and needs Yin Xia to read her the divorce agreement.
Although the film made Yin Xiya's mother realize the oppression of real life on her and chose to break away from the inherent status quo, it did not provide a fundamental solution.
What will they do after leaving their father? How to live?
Only awakening and running away are not enough . What they need to do is not to escape from real life and change the inherent status quo, and then plunge themselves into another unknown situation, but to solve the problem fundamentally.
The economic base determines the superstructure , and only the more you earn can have the final say. In an environment where the value of family labor is not recognized, there is no other way to improve family status and social status. Participating in full-time work is the most effective way. Although it is useful to rely on slogans to appeal, it is not as real as directly creating material wealth.
When you can produce "bread" yourself, you are the master of your own life.
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