In addition to the love of singing and dancing, and the love of hanging out, the biggest feature of Indian movies is that they have a big brain.
In "Dad 102 Years Old" released some time ago, the 102-year-old dad actually wanted to send his 75-year-old son to the nursing home, which is really shocking!
Now, India has activated its brain again, telling a surprising story: the son is about to get married, but the mother who is over 50 years old is pregnant!
What the hell?
"Badhaai Ho" (Badhaai Ho)
The protagonist, Nakur, is a guy in his early twenties who has already taken a stable job in a company. His girlfriend Renee is his colleague. The two are very emotional. No surprises, they will enter the palace of marriage.
Just as he began to plan for the future, something unexpected happened at home-his mother, who was over half a hundred years old, actually became pregnant.
It happened on a windy and dark night. Nakur’s father recites his own poems for his wife. On a whim, as he grows old and strong, he is kind, and he didn’t take insurance measures. My mother thought that she was so old, so she didn't pay attention afterwards, so when she found out she was pregnant, it was already 19 weeks!
Due to religious beliefs, the mother insisted on not having an abortion, because it was almost a complete life after 19 weeks!
This time the house is blasted!
Nakur was confused and surprised at first, then left with a speechless expression on his face.
When the father wanted to tell his grandmother, the youngest son immediately walked away and closed the door because "I don't want to hear the bad news a second time."
Why do sons mind so much that their mother is pregnant? Grandma said what they felt.
When the old man learned that his old daughter-in-law was pregnant again, he immediately sent out an "incredible" emoticon.
Then he asked: Did you two lose all your shame? !
It turns out that in traditional Indian culture, older people should stay away from sex, and it is inappropriate to indulge in sex when they are old.
In fact, Hinduism divides one’s life into four life periods. Except for the second "home period", people should suppress their own desires, especially the last "forest dwelling period" and "escape period." Sexuality, it is even best to practice asceticism, so as to achieve the purpose of practice, close to the gods, and vice versa, it is a manifestation of depravity.
In this way, you can imagine what Nakur’s parents would be considered in Indian society if they were pregnant and gave birth at such an age.
Nakur was even ashamed to tell Renee about this, and took days off.
However, paper cannot contain fire. The news that Nakur's mother was pregnant quickly spread to the neighborhood. The neighbors congratulated Nakur's father on the surface, but they were all mocking.
Renee’s mother directly referred to the Nakur’s family as a circus,
Nakur's car was also posted with spoof pictures.
Nakur's younger brother was even more miserable. He was directly mocked by his classmates and said: Your father is his age, and he still dances indecently with your mother!
All this puts the Nakur family under tremendous pressure.
In fact, people's response to the religious doctrine is a taboo against sex in the final analysis. Young people are considered to have sex during the "home period", and it is probably for the purpose of having children and prolonging offspring. Basically, in traditional concepts, sex is bad. As Nakur’s younger brother’s classmates described it, sex is a “dirty dance”. People should stay away from it, especially the elderly, because they don’t have the need to pass on from generation to generation. They are respected elders and should set an example.
In the film, Nakur’s reaction is classic. When he thinks that his mother is pregnant again, he can't even have sex with his girlfriend because he can't accept that his parents actually did this "dirty dance". , An angry Renee threw a pillow at him and didn't skip the dance. Where did Nakur come from?
This situation is also very common in China. It is felt that the elderly do not need sex. If an elderly person expresses sexual desire, it will be called "old and bad". Older couples should not have sex, and elderly people who are widowed should not have sex. Looking for an object again, this is roughly our thinking.
In fact, this is anti-human.
Food color is also.
Sex is the same as eating, which is the basic need for human survival. It is not bad and it is not inferior. Scientific research has repeatedly told us that the elderly also have sexual needs, and most of the elderly’s sexual life can last until the age of 70. !
Why can't the elderly have sex? The elderly are also human!
No matter how respectable the elders are, they are humans, as long as they are humans, they will have basic sexual needs! Even if she is a goddess-like mother.
The most important thing is that this is a personal matter, why should others interfere?
As Renee asked Nakur, do your parents still need your consent to have sex? This is already a violation of human rights!
Through a seemingly funny story, the film actually explores a long-standing topic in society: the rights of the elderly to enjoy sex, especially the obstruction of the younger generation’s sexual rights.
We are always talking about the interference of the elders in the private lives of the juniors, in fact, the juniors are also interfering in the private lives of the elders, right?
In "Dog Thirteen", the father will decide for Li Wan which class she should enroll in, and in "Xie De Qian Jin", Nakur will think that parents should not have sex.
The core issue here is actually the same-the lack of respect for individual rights in traditional values.
Therefore, under the traditional value framework, there are always people who interfere with another person's life with different identities and different names, and family members become the group that interferes most with each other due to blood ties and marriage relations.
In fact, what is the relationship between the private lives of parents and juniors? They have the right to pursue their own happiness.
In recent years, this situation has gradually improved with the continuous education of the media. There are elderly dating programs on TV, and there are elderly dating parks in many places. Beijing Changpuhe Park, which has been frequently used in the media recently, is a model. , The elderly are more daring to express their desires.
I personally think that this is a loving and healthy society where everyone can be themselves.
This theme is also expressed in "Xie De Qian Jin".
However, Nakur’s family could not be fully enlightened in the end, but when they saw Nakur’s parents being made fun of by outsiders, they unconsciously stood at the point of view of Nakur’s parents and began to defend them out of the mood of protecting the family. In order to make the arguments reasonable and well-founded, it is natural to break through the tradition and speak from the perspective of human nature, and by the way, I convinced myself.
This approach seems to be incomplete reflection, but in fact it is more grounded, avoiding boring preaching, and taking advantage of the trend to put a warm coat of affection on the whole story: I can only scold my family, and you outsiders must not blame.
The film maintains India's consistent style of expressing realistic themes in a comedy way, which is hilarious, and even the guiding lines also dump a lot of interesting baggage.
For example, classmates laughed at Nakuer’s father who had sex with his wife at a young age, but Nakur’s younger brother asked: Should it be normal for my dad to have sex with your mother?
Nakur’s friends teased him about being a brother again. Nakur sneered, yeah, my father is like that. If your wife can’t give birth, you can ask my father to help.
Nakur’s grandmother is relatively soft. She asks those who blame Nakur’s parents, "Is it a crime for husband and wife to love each other?"
These baggages are not only funny, but also have strong logic. They can arouse people's thinking more than straightforward preaching! Yes, an old couple still has sex. Doesn't it prove that they are healthy and friendly? This is a good thing, why should we blame?
"Xide Qianjin" does not have a strong cast and has a budget of only 2.9 billion rupees, but in the end it won a global box office of 2.21 billion rupees, squeezing into the top ten of Bollywood's annual box office, ranking seventh, and it is a 2018 movie. The dark horse at the box office.
At the same time, word of mouth is even more bursting, IMDb scored a high score of 8.1!
Many viewers are not shy about the film and think it is a must-see masterpiece.
I personally think this film is really great!
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