However, the namelessness of nationality does not mean shoddy.
The movie tells about two ordinary families, two ordinary young people who are blackmailed by the police or restrained by the caste system because of their love, and then die for a lifetime, thus showing the status quo of India, the political darkness, and the struggle of the people at the bottom. The world of young people.
This is definitely the poorest India, the darkest India, the most complex India, the most plump India, and the most real India I have ever seen.
[Real India]
In our inherent thinking, India is a traditionally conservative and backward country. Except for the glorious ancient civilization, they have almost no fresh vitality. Under the shackles of the caste, in the social status quo of disparity between the rich and the poor, In the chaotic and messy religions, they seem to have nothing to do except for devout worship. However, in the Bollywood movies, India is humorous, wealthy, singing and dancing, scientifically developed, and different sects live in harmony, people are sincere and friendly, and life is full. hope.
These two vastly different understandings have not been neutralized.
Bollywood has always emphasized, look, I'm fine, I'm amazing, handsome men and beauties everywhere, and gold jewelry all over the house.
We covered our ears and closed our eyes and said loudly, "I don't listen, I don't listen, I don't listen... You are poor and backward."
Until the appearance of "Death and Life".
The young people in this movie have very big eyes, but they are not as good as the Bollywood actors we know-white, beautiful, long legs, slender, strong, strong, they are dark, women are slightly fat, gauze Li is simple and plain, and the males are unshaven and thin. They are really ordinary young Indians.
Devi fell in love with one of the students at work at the Computer Training Institute, and then went to open a room, but was rushed in by police on the grounds of "anti-pornography". They forced her boyfriend to death and took the recorded Devi. Wei's disheveled video went to her house to blackmail. Devi’s father ran a small shop on the banks of the Ganges, which also served as a Sanskrit translator, earning between 8,000 and 10,000 rupees a month, and the police would cost 300,000 rupees a month.
Devi cooks, works, and lives as usual. After being fired, she looked for another job, and when she was harassed, she changed to another job; she took her boyfriend’s notes home, went to the police station to retrieve the report of his death, and called her boyfriend’s family to get through. Hang up immediately; she hates the shameless police but joins her father to pool money.
In a series of changes, Dewei has always been calm and indifferent, although he is the person involved but has nothing to do with him.
But in the end, after paying off the blackmailed money, quitting the troublesome job, reconciling with his father, went to her boyfriend's house to apologize, and went to the school that he wanted to go to... Dewei sat by the river and cried bitterly, grieved, sorry, Missing... all melted into tears on his face.
Under the surface of the seemingly calm river, there was such a turbulent current, but it was just suppressing it.
Because I don't want to bow my head completely, because I have to hold on to the last trace of dignity that is hard to be taken away by others.
Deepak is a college student at the Polytechnic Institute. When she was about to graduate from her senior year, she met Manu and fell in love at first sight. Then she found her Facebook with the encouragement and help of friends, approached and struck up a conversation in various ways, and finally succeeded in gaining her heart. However, the Deepak family is the lowest caste who is engaged in corpse burning work on the banks of the Ganges, and the Manu family is at least the caste of Kshatriya and above. Although India has long abolished this system, just like our country’s patriarchal thinking, this is a deep-rooted existence in the people’s inertial thinking. It is a thinking pattern that cannot be eliminated through a paper document-therefore, in the established world In the mode, how dare you as a corpse burner hope to combine with the advanced upper class.
But Manu said, you first find a good job, and I convince my parents that if it doesn't work, I can run away with you.
Encouraged by his girlfriend, Deepak let go of the worries about the class gap, was full of confidence in life, was motivated, and worked hard to get a good job, but he saw Manu’s body when he was helping his family burn the body one night. The girl who warmly encouraged herself became an icy corpse today. Deepak once told Manu about the process of burning the body: the body was burned in the fire, we smashed the skull and threw the ashes into the Ganges. ...These processes are applied to my girlfriend in this way.
When I first saw each other, I approached and tentatively approached carefully, the crowd stared secretly, casually stared at each other, the polite but ambiguous first date, the lingering phone porridge, the brain-wrenching gift, always The corners of the mouth that couldn't help but the first kiss that was helpless... everything portrayed the youthful, sweet, shy, and innocent feelings of the student days. It can resonate and understand that the university life in India is no different from ours.
Because it is simple and beautiful, it hurts even more when it is broken.
[The brutality that grows in the dark corner] The
Indian police have always been a representative of the negative. Whether it is the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" or the books "God of Tiny Things", "Subtle Balance", and "Lost", they are all brutal and unscrupulous.
The same is true in this movie.
There have been so many rape cases reported in India, but the police are more concerned about the premarital sex of young men and women. Instead of searching, arresting and punishing criminals, they search for civilians who can blackmail, insult and ridicule in hotels.
Devi’s boyfriend was frightened to commit suicide by them. Devi was brutally filmed by them. Then Devi was accused of instigating suicide. He was also charged with instigating suicide if she didn’t give 300,000 rupees. The threat of sending a video of opening a room with a person. No matter how Devi's father begged the police with a bargaining chip, he would not waver.
Seeing their faces is anger apart from anger, because you know that you have no power to change.
The police are not the messengers of justice for violent violence, they are blackmailers and shameless people.
The school where Devi worked and expelled Devi's boyfriend after he committed suicide, because they guessed that "you opened a room with him, and you killed him."
Devi worked as an operator at another university. A cleaner claimed to know Devi's past and said, "I will not expose you when you sleep with me."
Being an official, deceiving others, taking advantage of the situation, and taking advantage of the opportunity to wipe oil... These social ugliness also exist in many countries, and India dares to face it. Whether it can have an impact on the development of society is one thing, but if you dare to face it squarely, you have already started. It’s great that we can get a glimpse of the reality of India, and we are no longer drawn into the ideal India that is fair and honest.
Of course, this movie didn't give a solution, it just described the facts, and then let us think about it.
[Abundance in a barren corner]
Although Devi's father was angry and disappointed, he still desperately earned money to maintain Devi's reputation. Hearing Devi was leaving, he cried and said that he did not kill her mother and said what I would do in the future.
The father and daughter are both people who do not like to show themselves in appearance, but the feelings between each other are indescribable. It may not be clear in the daily bits, but they always exist in their hearts;
Deepak and his father ask for money to participate in Durga Madness ( zhui (nv) Festival (you), father said to take it at will, my son can do whatever he wants; the corpse burned all night and day on the banks of the Ganges River, and Deepak helped his father burn his body while studying, and never complained. .
Manu doesn't care about caste and class differences, doesn't dislike the identity of his boyfriend's corpse-burning family, but just follows his own feelings; when
Deepak first started his love affair, his friends surrounded him to help him, and when he was negative and decadent, his friends guarded him and encouraged him to cheer him up.
All these beautiful moments exist in the dark, chaotic, brutal and poor India, with the most vivid feelings in the seemingly desperate reality.
Whose life is not terrible and beautiful;
in the barren era, everywhere the brilliance of human nature is hidden, just like the sun that cannot be concealed in the dark clouds of a gloomy sky, so shining and shining.
Finally, we got on a boat that had crossed the bitter sea and drove slowly toward the setting sun. The past sorrow and pain left it on the shore, and we were born toward the sun.
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