This is a film review written in 2018, and I will post it again~
I watched a few movies recently, all from India, including "Wrestling! "Dad", "Mysterious Superstar", "Starting Line", "Padman", and "Toilet Hero" released yesterday.
Today, let's talk about toilet heroes.
The film tells the story of Keshav, who married a cow as his wife in order to change his fate, and Jaya who met by chance and fell in love at first sight. The two overcame various difficulties and finally became husband and wife.
The film has a very unique Indian customs. It is not allowed to build toilets at home. Women get up at 4 every morning to go to the open market to go to the farmland to defecate. They can only pull it once a day, and hold it for the rest of the time.
Once the women who can't hold back the risk of going to the rescue alone, many rape and murder cases happen when the victim is alone...
Indians see it as unlucky to have their own "separate toilet" at home.
In their concept, the toilet is a dirty place, a filthy place, why do people defecate in their own homes, which will make their house smellier and dirtier, and even get sick.
Building a toilet in one's own home is disrespectful to God and blasphemy against one's own religion. Since ancient times, their ancestors have been convenient on the earth, which is a way to get close to nature and a kind of "culture".
It is this kind of confinement of ideas for thousands of years that is the root cause of the dispute over the movie toilet, and instead of compromising, Gaya resolutely stands on the maintenance of her own rights, and finally what it evokes is The awakening of feminism for all women.
The quality of the movie is relatively simple, and it is as eloquent as a TV series! There is a common problem that the rhythm is long, and it can't be said that it is good or bad. Perhaps because the subject matter is relatively special, it is logical to let people patiently watch the 2.5-hour movie to the end.
But through the miniature of a toilet, what the film reveals is not only a beautiful love that is against the world, but also the problems existing in the entire Indian society in a small and broad way.
In this love story that seems absurd but deeply understands the reality of Indian society, the hero is not only the husband who builds a toilet for love, but also Gaya, the wife, who is also a hero;
Facing the traditions of their ancestors, the women in the entire village have long since completely lost the ability to defend their rights. On the contrary, they have tried to discourage Gaya, who dared to fight against injustice, to compromise.
She even criticized her persistence. The female self has no awakening of feminist consciousness, so how can you talk about the maintenance of feminism?
This is a very strange story to outsiders. In the 21st century, when drones are flying everywhere, the problem of toileting still plagues hundreds of millions of women in India.
It is quite meaningful to turn the small hole of the toilet into a cultural window, through which the world can see a real India.
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