It's a bit different from what I imagined. After all, the trailer I watched at the beginning of last year did not have dialogue. At that time, I just thought it was a bit similar to the Afghan version of Mulan, with conflicts and dramas. I really watched the feature film, and I was a little bit unexpected, but it was more depressing. "Eleven is not a child anymore, you can get married", "Women can't go to school, can't go out alone, and don't have the right to buy things", even if they were mentally prepared, they were simply rude in less than five minutes after the opening. It is still very uncomfortable to be involved in such a world, and until a few hours after reading it, I still feel a sense of despair that I can't breathe.
Pawana, who was born in Afghanistan, is unfortunate, but it is extremely lucky to have a loving, knowledgeable father who is willing to teach her to read, literate, and tell stories, although this kind of fortune may be useless at that time and place and it will be counterproductive. Just because of his disability, he needed his daughter to help him go to the market to do business, and his father was taken away by the little gangster who had just joined the Taliban. There is a younger brother and a elder sister on the upper side. My mother is injured and weak. The father’s life and death is unknown. Pawana resolutely disguised herself as a man and walked in the street conscientiously for the first time. The scene poke me a lot. She was chased before she even had a firm footing. Now she just cut her hair and changed her identity. The way the world treats her has been earth-shaking.
And compared to Pawana, who is gentle, kind and tough, who silently carries the burden of the whole family, I prefer her old classmate Xiao Xia, who is also dressed as a man. When I watched the trailer half a year ago, the ideal romanticism in my bones was at fault. I once secretly wondered if he was the Afghan version of Mulan's "Li Xiang". And when I watched the feature film without looking at the introduction, I realized that they were just two girls, but of course this spoof brain won’t affect my love of this character. She changed her name to Deliva and she is Pawana in the movie. Companion's partner is also a light to guide her. Perhaps it was more years of outside life than Pavana, or perhaps there was not much concern about family affection. Deliva's conception and dealing with things are more sleek and snobbery, but she is also kind and tough. What supports Pawana is the belief in saving her father's family safety, while for Deliva it is the landscape photo of South India Goa stolen from the bottom of her father's box.
The two young girls under the men's clothing carefully climbed onto the abandoned tank and sat next to each other, looking forward to the blue waters of Goa in the photo, looking forward to the scene, which is truly heartbreaking.
In the end, the two parted because Pawana had to leave with her mother’s relatives after rescuing her father. The agreement to meet on the beach of Goa 20 years later, accompanied by the sound of aerial bombers, seemed to me simply It is a big flag. Unlike the idealistic Indian movies, they have a more relaxed social environment and humanistic atmosphere, no matter how dark and realistic, there is always enthusiasm and joy that can be felt in the bones. But "The Breadwinner" from the beginning to the end did not try to provoke or guide the audience's emotions. It was more like an indifferent description of what happened in Afghanistan, but I know that the story in the movie is actually very ideal. Just like a short commentary, "This work is too weak for reality, and it is too heavy for animation."
When I watched it, I remembered that I watched "I grew up in Iran" a few years ago, which happened to be an animated film on the theme of war. Of course, the core was completely different. From the same female perspective, many lines in "Iran" appear to be less powerful and more Western-style, while the breadwinner is separated by a layer of difficult but strong emotions. There is no incitement, just a coldly expounding what is really happening in Afghanistan. The human nature in war is always particularly moving. In the dark war, the most shining light is the weak human nature in the contrast of chaos and family affection.
Like the folk tales that have been interspersed in the movie, the brave boy finally succeeded in getting back the seeds of the villagers from the giant elephant. In fact, the story is very messy and logically unreasonable, but the story that has inspired and supported the national spirit since ancient times has never been Not relying on science and logic.
"In our hometown, talent is the most priceless treasure."
I really hope that they will meet the Goa seaside in twenty years.
Ideally, I have to go to see an Indian movie slowly.
ps:
When I saw the last sentence "raise your word, not your vicoe. it is rain that makes the flowers grow", I was a bit pessimistic. After all, it is still a movie from a Western perspective, but in today’s society, any ultimate victory depends on not only Just make sense.
After all, freedom has a price, always.
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