It is not easy to make a good inspirational film.
"Good" means, applaud and applaud.
To be able to "applaud" a movie, it must have excellent acting skills, excellent script and reliable directing skills.
And being able to "popular" depends on whether the audience buys it or not.
Especially in inspirational films, the word "inspirational" is basically equivalent to all spoilers.
All in all, it's a game of intersection between the academic film critic and the general public.
Fortunately, Aamir Khan's sense of balance has always been good. From "Once Upon a Time in India" and "Stars on Earth" to "Wrestling, Dad" and "Mysterious Superstar", almost every work can be called "good" this standard.
In today's increasingly mysterious market tastes, this is a rare transcript.
What is even more rare is that in Aamir Khan's films, we have seen things that were once scarce in domestic films.
Something that chooses between eggs and walls, rather than trying to make money for two eggs while trying to sing praises to walls.
This kind of thing is called social responsibility.
"Once Upon a Time in India" criticizes colonial rule, "Death Unknown" exposes the caste system, and "Three Silly Troubles in Bollywood" directly addresses the issue of education.
Later, the TV program "Truth Interview" was filmed. The content of 24 episodes exposed various scandals such as female infanticide, child sexual abuse, arranged marriage, and domestic violence in India.
In an interview with Time Magazine Asia in 2012, the article asked:
"Can an actor change a country?"
The answer is becoming clearer with the huge response to the release of "Wrestle, Dad" and "Mystery Superstar", which explored gender equality.
Of course, the word "equality between men and women" is used too lightly here.
After all, in India, the question of the humble status of women has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow.
And all of this is acquiesced by the system.
This is a knot that is difficult to untangle.
In a country with a relatively fair system, even if there is a cultural tradition of favoring sons over women, the marriage market will gradually adjust the status of men and women through supply and demand. For example, in China, where there are 33 million more men than women; even if the system is more reliable, even if The number of women far exceeds that of men, and they can still achieve a rapid increase in social status. For example, after World War II, the ratio of male to female marriages reached an astonishing 1:1.64 in the former Soviet Union.
Aamir Khan sees the points of this major social issue. To eliminate people's prejudice against women, to make women no longer rely on their husbands to live, and to break the order of the patriarchal society, only women can make their own success Prove it.
So in two successive films, Aamir Khan gave two proof methods for success.
"Genius is 1% talent + 99% sweat." This is the success formula given by Edison. By the way, Edison did not give "but without this 1% inspiration, 99% sweat is futile" This supplement terms.
"Wrestle, Dad" takes the second path . Former wrestling champion Singh trained his two daughters into top athletes with "tiger dad" training. Under the unique Bollywood MV scene, the four-minute scene makes the two girls feel like they are forced to exercise their lives through obscenity, and can easily pull the Chinese audience back to their high school days.
"Mysterious Superstar" takes the first path . Yin Xia, who is exceptionally gifted, can beat the pack as long as she opens her voice, and even playing two guitars in a musical instrument store can get a round of applause.
This reminds me of Forrest Gump.
When I was a college student, I took the comparison of Chinese and foreign literature as an elective. Probably the teacher also felt that this course was boring, so he changed the "literature" to "film and television" by himself. In one afternoon, he compared the Chinese "The True Story of Ah Q" and the American "Forrest Gump". True Story".
To be honest, I haven't seen any comparison between the two films except the name, but obviously the teacher doesn't think so. After a long viewing session, the white-haired professor attributed Forrest Gump's achievement to his never-give-up belief and perseverance in his heart.
But the problem is that a casual run is faster than a car, and a casual swing of a racket is a national-level person. Even if he was born as a slave in ancient Rome, he was the focus of the Colosseum.
Just like the heroine Yoon Shia in "Mystery Superstar".
At the beginning of the film, my mother said to her, you can ask me anything, but not life.
But it turns out that Yin Xia not only mentioned it confidently, but also almost responsive.
Regarding this point, Professor Cao Wenxuan of Peking University said very blatantly in the preface of Han Han Virgo's "Three Doors": "The society should see that under the sky, there is not only one way to go - even if there is no way, it should be a special one. people, make a way."
This makes the film more of a celebrity biopic without enough universality and reference value.
Perhaps, Aamir Khan inadvertently opened a big hole in an era.
Human civilization has worked hard for 6,000 years, and no period can achieve complete justice.
Appearance, intelligence, family, talent, born as a human, the starting point is destined to be different.
But deeply rooted in human nature is the desire for existence, the demand for security, and the passion for self-realization, which makes thousands of dreamers embark on the journey without hesitation, even if the wind is blowing, even if the good or the bad is uncertain, for the sake of the sunset To be able to leave footprints and flags behind the horizon, all the thorns and ambush, are not worth caring about.
In the capacity development training camps that many companies like very much now, there used to be a popular quiz game: two people share a watermelon, how can we operate to ensure the greatest fairness? Now I don't need to say that you probably know the optimal solution: one person cuts, the other divides.
This is an interesting concept that Rawls mentioned in A Theory of Justice in the 1970s: the veil of ignorance .
Like dividing watermelons, when people decide what kind of treatment each social group should enjoy, the best way is like an improvisation on the stage: you don't know what role you will play, and there are no messy entanglements of interests. In this case, the settings of each character will be balanced, there will be no crushing advantages, and there will be no embarrassing defects.
I think putting together these two inspirational films of Aamir Khan is a complete final answer.
Only in this society can open the door to happiness and success for everyone in the mechanism, and the talented and hard-working people can find their due value and reach the end that once seemed out of reach, but, Just come first.
In this way, an actor can change a country.
But for things like changing a country, you can't just rely on actors, right?
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