Aamir Khan's films have always been made with a strong purpose. They are based on the realistic background of India. They are dreams created for the local ordinary people, especially the disadvantaged groups. They are not daydreams, but can A little bit towards the dream of walking towards it.
Mystery Superstar has two lines.
A bright line is the struggle of daughter Yin Xia, who is fighting for the opportunity to show her talent and realize her dreams, and against the fate of underage arranged marriage.
A dark line is the struggle of mother Najima, who is fighting for the children's right to spiritual health and happiness, and against her husband's hegemony and domestic violence.
Fighting and fighting, in the final analysis, is fighting for an equal right to choose. This is by no means an easy word for most women in India.
The story on the open line is clear at a glance, and the story on the dark line can be told.
Although the heroine of the film is a daughter, the mother is the real core of the whole story, the spark that started the prairie fire.
It can be seen from the little details of the movie that my mother is a smart, wise, talented and courageous woman. Even if she is dragged down by fate, she still cannot hide her excellent light.
Smart first.
Najma is illiterate. She married her husband, an engineer, through an arranged marriage.
In India, an engineer is a very good profession, and it is also a single-plank bridge that poor boys have to squeeze to get ahead. Even if girls from ordinary families are sent to study, it is only to add some bargaining chips to blind marriages. They cannot continue to study and work independently. They will only be forcibly suspended from school at any time at the age of fourteen or five, and they will marry In the home of a stranger who I don't know, I have been dealing with pots and pans for a lifetime.
Husband looks down on his illiterate wife, but is Najma really inferior to him? Not necessarily, even Najma may have a higher IQ than her husband, just lacking an opportunity to study.
The scene where Najima made a decision at the airport was neat, well organized, calm and domineering. Using airport surveillance and Yin Xia's identity as a big V, she prevented her husband's intention to commit violence, and used the lawyer's lawsuit materials and her husband's career prospects in exchange for the custody of the two children and the freedom to leave the house. You must know that all this is not a premeditated plan, but an on-the-spot response after suddenly making up your mind, which can be said to be very powerful.
When Yin Xia wanted to sing on YouTube, it was her mother who helped her come up with the idea of masking, allowing her daughter to take the first step from zero to one, and finally succeeded in saving the country. When Yin Xia fell asleep with the computer and was discovered by her father, it was also her mother who had an idea to make up a reason to hide it from the sky.
Such a smart and witty woman, if she has the opportunity to study and work normally, she will definitely be a very good professional woman.
Let alone wisdom.
There is one detail. After Dad completed the work in Saudi Arabia, he suggested that the whole family go out to eat to celebrate. He especially said to Yin Xiya, "You can go too", which shows that Yin Xiya's status at home is the lowest. She doesn't have her own room, so she can only make a floor in the living room. Dad went out to the wedding and she couldn't go. Dad took the family to the movies, and she couldn't go either.
And my mother stole money from the private house, and when my father was not at home, she secretly took Yin Xia and Gudu out to play together. She is illiterate, but she knows how to let children go to museums to broaden their horizons and see more of the outside world to gain insight. She has no culture, let alone studied child psychology and pedagogy, but she knows that only love can make children grow up better.
As the favored only son in the family, Gudu never used his power to bully others, but used his small strength to protect his mother and sister and grow into a warm man. As a neglected daughter, Yin Xia has never been beaten or become submissive, but has the spirit of resistance and the ability to think independently.
All of this comes from the careful care of her mother. She gets along with the children like friends, but bears all the anger and beatings of her husband for them. It is she who uses her weak shoulders to support the children in a haze-filled home with a clear sky.
This mother has no culture, but has a simple and great wisdom.
Let alone talent.
Yin Xia has liked to listen to and sing since she was a child, and this hobby is actually in the same strain as Najima. When she was only 6 years old, her mother bought her a guitar and supported her to learn piano, write songs and sing. In the MV, Najima flashed back to the clip, using kitchen utensils to imitate the microphone to sing while washing dishes, and playing a superstar with Yin Xia's guitar.
When the two mothers and daughters cuddled together late at night to watch the awards of the singing competition, the mother poked at the problem of Kumar's composition in recent years - the abuse of mixing has destroyed the beautiful melody. This sentence inspired Yin Shiya at a critical moment and won Kumar's resonance and the opportunity to sing again. It even indirectly helped Kumar to regain his original intention, return to the peak of the composer, and once again won the love of the audience.
We don't know how much musical talent Najima has, but she is at least a person who has a passion for music. Her hobby has been inherited and carried forward in Yin Xia, and her support keeps Yin Xia's talent from being buried. After all, no matter how high the talent is, it also needs to be supported by the hard power that has been polished for a long time.
From the age of 6 to 15, Yin Xia has been attached to music for 9 years. This is the prerequisite for her to become popular on the Internet. It is the reason why she can get applause when she tries the piano in the piano shop, and she can get it as soon as she makes a move. The praise from the classmates is even an important factor that attracts Qin Teng's admiration.
If Najma was in the same situation as a child, maybe she would be another talented female singer too.
And courage.
Because of social and family relations, Najma could not get an education and was not allowed to go out to work, so she had to depend on her husband. In such a difficult environment, she still did her best to fight, not for herself, but for the life of her daughter Yin Xia.
As a mother, she cannot accept that her children are deprived of the right to live before they are born just because they cannot choose their gender. A pregnant woman has been away from home for ten months, her husband's family is looking for her, and her mother's family will not give shelter, be it begging or scavenging waste.
But she made it through.
Who can say that such a woman does not have the ability to survive independently? She can suffer the most in the world, just for the people she loves.
When Yin Xia was born safely, she finally returned home, not only because the social environment lacked space to live, but I think more importantly, she needed to give her daughter an environment where food and drink were not lacking and she could grow up stably. Najima grew up in a different environment than Yin Xia. She does not have such persistent career dreams, so she lacks the firmness and necessity to fight against her family. Her biggest dream is the safety and happiness of her children.
For this dream, she can fight bravely to save her daughter's life, and she can endure for a long time to give her child a home.
She is the Superstar behind the scenes, the real mysterious superstar.
Najma is a generation of women whose independent will is beginning to awaken.
Don't blame her for waking up too late, she has done a very, very perfect job under the harsh conditions she was in. She has not won anything for herself, and every step she takes bravely is facing the pros and cons of the children.
In Najima's heart, the seeds of yearning for free choice are actually buried.
Otherwise, how could she remember her daughter's words about her dreams so tightly and repeat them at the airport without thinking. How could she blurt out that her father didn't ask her for her opinion when she got married, and now her daughter is making her own decisions without asking her own thoughts. She said, "No one cares what I think." How could she secretly find someone else to understand the detailed terms of the document after rejecting her daughter, and take it with her in her luggage when she goes abroad.
She was actually struggling.
Of course she was reluctant to force Yin Xiya to give up her dream and become another herself, but she also didn't want her son to become another husband and harm other women. She couldn't imagine how she would survive after leaving her husband, and whether she could obtain custody of the children. She should also have the heart to see her husband, who had lived with her for many years, being arrested and sent to prison.
Fortunately, she finally woke up, and it was all in time.
Najima's love was exchanged for Yin Xia's willing sacrifice. Najima saw it in her eyes and hurt in her heart. No matter how much Yin Xia sacrificed, Najima was so moved and guilty. Yin Xia's dedication and love for singing over the years, her talent and splendid future that she had to give up, she clearly found a way out, success is in front of her, but she has to put away her stubbornness and set foot on another country where she must always live under a black veil , away from his beloved boy of the same age, to marry a man who he never knew and could marry four wives.
But her husband couldn't even hold a small guitar, which was just the last little sustenance of her daughter's heart.
The mother has always sacrificed for her daughter, but this time her daughter has become an umbrella for her mother. Najima wakes up, how can she be so selfish, and a mother wants her underage daughter to sacrifice her life for herself. She has clearly seen Yin Xia grow up, she dares to fight against her father, and she dares to fight for her legitimate rights from strangers. She sneaked off to Mumbai to record a song and handled the entire journey alone, better than herself as an adult.
The daughter dared to pat her chest and say, "Mum, I can definitely support us, but the mother is afraid of leaving the "shelter" of her husband who is abusive. Najima looks back and thinks about how ironic this is.
Najma made the best choice. All the children are left, no property is left, the husband goes to his Saudi Arabia, and the aunt kisses and says goodbye. In the end, whether Najma and her husband divorced is not described in the film, but it doesn't matter. What matters is that Najma finally stood up. She can freely choose the path she wants to take in the future, and so can her children.
Najma's awakening was impulsive, deliberate, accidental, but inevitable. A young pregnant woman who had been away from home for ten months, a weak and strong mother who would rather be beaten again and again to fulfill her child's wishes, a woman who was constantly motivated by her daughter and entangled in thinking about where to go, suddenly at a certain moment. A firm decision is not at all sudden.
As a completely awakened generation of women, Yin Xia has the seeds of her fighting spirit from her mother, and it is the care of her mother's love that gives this seed the nutrients to take root and thrive.
This seed is not only in the hearts of Yin Xia and Najima, but also in the hearts of Aunt and Gudu. When the audience began to worry about whether Gudu would inform his father because he heard that his sister was going to take his mother and keep him, Gudu expressed his heart with a warm gift. When the audience began to worry about whether the aunt, who is the elder on the husband's side, would inform her father because she heard that her daughter wanted her mother to divorce, the aunt quietly told her daughter, what an earth-shattering thing her mother has done for you, but silently Keeping secrets doesn't put you under pressure.
Aunts, mothers and daughters are the longitudinal comparison of the three generations of the disadvantaged female groups, the old, middle and young (young), they repeat the fate of the previous generation from generation to generation, but the changes of each generation will bring unimaginable leverage to the next generation. Power, the behavior of the next generation may feed back to the previous generation to reflect and change.
Yin Xia's parents, Qin Teng's parents, and tutor couples are a set of horizontal comparisons. A loving family that breaks up peacefully is more likely to be happy than a complete but indifferent family. The main force of earning money can be women. Such couples are still sweet. They should be in free love.
Chinten and Gudu are another set of horizontal contrasts. Even if you are born into a less happy family, proper upbringing and education can still prevent the continuation of bad traditions, as long as one parent has the heart and love.
The change of thinking of the whole society is never achieved overnight, but the family's words and deeds are extremely powerful.
One small step for the previous generation, one giant leap for the next generation.
Step by step, little by little, starting from everyone, maybe in the near future, you can see a lot of changes.
To take a step back, even if it can relieve pain in a heart and gain energy for change in a person, everything is worth it.
This is what the Aamir Khans are working hard for.
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