He Jongwang went to the morning movie, it was lunchtime after watching it, and they discussed at the dinner table. She said that the main line of the movie was unclear. But I think the clues of this film are still very clear, but the narrative is unsatisfactory. Even if it tries to interweave many different threads, the climax of the film, that is, at the end, the fulfillment of the little heroine's dream, the praise of mother's love, and even the resistance of women in the family/male relationship should be achieved at the same time. .
However, during the more than two hours of watching the movie, these clues were shaken off separately, resulting in a little confusion.
At the beginning of the story, Insu, a 15-year-old girl, likes to play guitar, compose and sing, and her dream is to become a bset singer. Her mother is gentle and considerate and fully supports her dream, saying that she is the best singer in her mind,
but this is not a simple story of a talented girl chasing her dream.
Soon, my mother's sunglasses revealed her father's domestic violence. Insu wants to enter a singing competition at school and win her coveted notebook. But while asking for his father's advice, his father was furious because his mother forgot to put salt in the cooking and overturned the meal. Insu wiped the filth on the ground with the registration form.
This is a foreshadowing at the beginning. Between dreams and family, she will choose to give up the former because of her mother. Even if all she could do was wipe the stains on the floor.
Patriarchy/patriarchy in the family means fist, but at the same time, the father is also the financial security of the family. Insu persuaded her mother to leave, but her mother said that you have to plan first, and the women trapped in the family cannot escape.
But mom magically bought the notebook as a gift from Insu, which was expensive for her, but she kept silent about the source of the money. "You can't deprive me of the joy of seeing your smile," she said to Insu, who was questioning. (A foreshadowing, there will be echoes later)
In the days when my father was away from home to look for a job, the film used a joyful background sound to string clips about the great freshness and fun that the notebook brought to the Insu family. Insu saw a popular video on Youtube, and the hundreds of millions of views made her tongue-tied, and she was eager to try it. But the distant father is still a hidden worry in her heart. She can't show her face in the film. Her mother suggested that she wear a black burqa.
The burqa covered Insu's face, but not her voice. In the first song, several turns of the lyrics in "Who Am I" are extremely moving. The one that impressed me the most was the sentence "I am the moon, or the shadow behind the moon". Insu, in the name of "secret star", a Fire and red.
At the beginning of the film, composer Shakti Kumar, the judge of the TV show Insu and her mother watched, just happened to be boycotted by the industry, and sent an invitation to secret star to record a new movie online.
She saw Shakti Kumar's divorce news on the Internet, ignored his invitation, and continued to swipe the keyboard to check the comments from netizens.
But the waves were steep, and her father snapped every string on her guitar because she failed the quiz. Before a friend's wedding banquet, his father asked his mother to wear a gold necklace, and only then did his mother sell the necklace to buy a laptop for Insu. The father was furious and asked Insu to take his younger brother Gudu to close the door, slapped his mother in the living room, and asked Insu to throw the laptop downstairs and torn apart.
Losing her guitar and laptop, Insu was unhappy. In school, Qintan, who has always liked her, tried her best to make her happy. This is another line of the film - the unprovoked, youthful but intense love of adolescence.
Qin Tan's eyes followed Insu all the time. When Insu saw the newspaper in the teacher's hand with his own news in the classroom, he ran out for an excuse and stole the newspaper at home. He followed closely and told Insu that he recognized her earlier. He was willing to keep a secret for her, then turned to her and said, "I love you, with a wide grin and gleaming teeth."
Determined to contact Shakti Kumar, Insu skipped class and flew to Mumbai to record him. Qintan took care of everything for her, helped her climb out of the wall, and across a wall, Insu said, I love you too.
The connection with Shakti Kumar is another thread of the film, interwoven with the dual narrative of dream/family. There were twists and turns in the recording process. Insu pointed out the problem of the song, and she had to "sing with your heart" instead of "sing with your body". She took off the burqa and successfully completed the recording. Shakti Kumar, who was shaking his body with the music outside the recording room, seemed to also So find yourself again.
Everything came too much for what it should have been.
The seemingly cynical Shakti Kumar helped Insu contact his wife's divorce lawyer. Insu wanted to take his mother, escape from the family, and escape from his father. After finding a job in another place, the family will move together and even soon he will The fate of marrying and having children.
Shakti Kumar seems to be the one to help her achieve her dream, but as he talks in the sun, he points to the bubbles in the water glass and says that the truly talented will arise on their own.
So far, the film's dream-seeking journey seems to have come to an end. After the recording, he became famous and fled with his mother.
The story isn't over yet, but when Insu brings back the divorce papers to explain his plans to his mother, a heated argument breaks out.
"Have you asked me if I wanted a divorce?"
"Stupid!" "Cowardly!" Insu threw hurtful words and rushed into the room.
In that conversation, Mom's words revealed a real and hard truth, she said, we are going to move with Dad. As a mother, what she strives to give is freedom in a small area. However, she could not afford such freedom for her family's resistance, her pursuit of her dreams, and such freedom. Also think Insu can't get it, don't think about it.
The aunt, who has always been reticent, told Insu about her mother's escape from the hospital to save her before she was born. She thought her mother was stupid and cowardly, but her mother fled and resisted for her long ago, and Insu burst into tears. But the aunt said, don't tell your mother you know, I'm not having as much fun telling you about it as she's having keeping it a secret. This seems to be a kind of intertextuality between my mother telling Insu not to deprive me of the joy of seeing your smile.
Insu made a choice again. She deleted her online account and threw the registration form on the ground like before. The song she recorded for the movie went viral, and her mother bought a CD to play at home. She turned off the recorder, shook her head, and said, I have no dreams anymore.
Until the day they left home, their whole family changed planes in Mumbai. On the same night, Mumbai will hold the annual music awards ceremony, and secret star was nominated for the best singer.
Before going through the security check, my father threw away the extra luggage, Insu's guitar, in order to pay less money. He said it was garbage. Mother's eyes changed, and again, she fought for Insu. The dispute escalated, and the mother took out the divorce papers to sign, took Insu and his younger brother Gudu out of the airport, and went to the award ceremony.
Insu won Best Singer in a different way, and she was also cheered by Kedi Kumar and Chintan. She took to the stage, took off her black burqa, and delivered an ode to motherly love.
Here, the film completes the multiple narratives of dream/family/resistance.
However, after the completion, there are still many topics to think about.
If discussing the possibility of rebelling against tradition/family (patriarchy/patriarchy), the path taken by Insu seems extremely haphazard and fortunate. First of all, she needs to be extremely talented, which is already difficult. Secondly, modern technology (the Internet) has given her the possibility of becoming famous, but good luck is needed between talent and fame. On the road of women's resistance, they also used the help of Chintan, male star Kedi Kumar and female divorce lawyers.
Without these contingencies, the story would not have ended so well. Even before the mother's revolt at the airport, this story has given us a glimpse of another possibility. Even if Insu voluntarily seeks help, the final step still requires the most oppressed women - Insu's mother's own awakening and resistance. finally achieved.
At this point, the film may provide a more positive revelation. But beyond this point, the narrative behind the success of the film is too "accidental" and "perfect", which inevitably makes the audience feel that they have fallen into some kind of popular routine.
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