talked about life and death. If "The Kite Chaser", which tells the joys and sorrows of the Afghans, has moved you to tears, if the vision of Iran’s elite families exposes the ills of Iran’s modernization process, "Nader He" Westminster: A Farewell" once resonated strongly with you, then, this is a reaction of a sharp knife to blood, a Pakistani who has been torn apart by a dual culture facing a complicated political environment, confused and seeking "The Strangers of Lahore Teahouse" "People" is definitely a classic you can't miss.
Accompanied by ethnic Middle Eastern music, an American walking on the street was kidnapped by a masked man, packed into a car and taken away. The music is still going on, the sensual night, the good show just kicked off...
the male protagonist in the red robe appeared, I don't know why, that bright red, like someone's blood, was burning. I just wanted to watch a Middle Eastern literary film, but the film told me from the beginning that it would not be an easy movie.
Two men were chatting in a teahouse in Lahore, one was a university professor and the other was a columnist. However, identity has always been just a disguise to hide our true face. It turned out that the American kidnapped was also a university professor. His name was Renier. As the conversation progressed, the two began to tear each other’s disguise apart. The red-robed Pakistani man named Changer was only one. The university professor is also suspected of being a member of Al Qaeda, and the columnist named Bobby was sent by the CIA to use the interview to tell the whereabouts of the kidnapped Professor Rainier.
Changgel asked Bobby to listen to his story carefully and not take it out of context.
Changgel once studied in the United States when he was 18 years old. As a declining Pakistani nobleman, he wanted to make a difference in the United States where everyone is equal and everyone can realize their dreams. Father can't come up with a handsome salary, and the family is already struggling. After graduating from the prestigious Ivy League school Princeton, he joined a high-end consulting company, and since then he has made a great deal of fame and has a relationship with the boss' niece by chance.
Although people's misunderstandings of Middle Easterners have always been with him, his great future and beautiful love have made him enthusiastic, and his talent for evaluation and hard work overtime have impressed the boss. If there is no 9-11, maybe he will go to the elite class of the United States, get the green card of the United States, live in the Upper East Side, and become another practitioner of the American dream, but there is no if.
The United States after 9-11 is like a cat whose tail is stepped on. In their opinion, all Middle Easterners have one and only one identity, that is, terrorists. American patriotism is manifested in different forms on the street every day, and those with turbans and beards bear the brunt. Although there is a beautiful woman in his arms and his boss is blue-eyed, it is impossible for him to live in the United States after 9-11 with the appearance of a Middle Easterner. At the airport, he was taken to a transparent room with four walls and was forced to take off his clothes. The violent inspection was simply a trampling on human dignity, perhaps where the policeman put his gloved hand into his anus. For a moment, something idealistic in his heart collapsed suddenly.
Back to Pakistan to attend my sister’s wedding. At the wedding, a person accidentally broke a plate and was facing the risk of losing his job. My father stopped him from pleading with the boss and said to him that you sympathized with this person only because you saw it. His face, if you think about your job now, countless people lost their jobs with a swipe of a pen. You have to think clearly what you do. However, his father no longer has authority in his mind. He does not pay attention to what poems his father wrote. He only knows that now he is the financial pillar of the whole family, and even the wedding before him is also benefited from him. The conversation between father and son broke up unhappy. However, after returning to the United States, he had to admit that his painstaking life was falling apart. He had a big beard on his face, which attracted private suspicion and sarcasm from his colleagues. In fact, from the moment he decided to grow a beard, he was already on his way back to his hometown.
Life is still going on. He was promoted to the youngest partner of the company because of his outstanding performance. When he switched from a crowded cubicle to a large independent spacious office, I was thinking, when he stood on the 53rd floor of a Manhattan skyscraper. By the window sill, how do you feel when you think of your own desperate country and your compatriots who are suffering? He was sent to evaluate a long-established Turkish publishing house and merge that publishing house. He was ridiculed by the president because, as the son of a poet, he wanted to merge a publishing house that had made outstanding contributions to the spread of Middle Eastern culture. . The president told him a story while having dinner with him. In ancient Turkey, some Christian children were captured by the Ottoman Empire when they were young and raised them. They eventually became the guards of the Muslim army and waited for them. When they grow up, they will be sent to kill their original parents and destroy the past countryside. The irony in it is not insignificant. Although Changgez tried his best to refute that he is not the kind of ungrateful person, but the contradiction with his girlfriend in the past, the hostility of American society to the Middle Easterners, his loss between the two cultures, everything He was overwhelmed long ago, and the president’s thoughtful remarks became the last straw to crush the camel. What's more, the father on the Turkish Punjabi poetry collection that he never knew was already Broke his line of defense. In the anger of his boss hating iron and steel, he ended his job and resigned. In the background music of faint resentment, packed up all the luggage, broke up with his girlfriend, and returned to his home country Pakistan.
After being recommended by Professor Rainier to become a university professor, he started to fight for Pakistan's tomorrow. He must do something. Bobby said that he had made a choice between the United States and the Middle East, but Changuez was forced to stand on Pakistan’s side by the Americans’ irrational hatred after 9-11. He struggled, but he failed. , But in the end he woke up and decided to speak for his motherland. Time froze in Lahore teahouses, and the outside world was in a mess. The police rushed into the campus to arrest suspected students, and the students demonstrated collectively. While the major suspect, Chang Geez, was drinking tea in a calm manner, he couldn't help but feel in trepidation, because the CIA had been harassing his family in various ways, breaking his uncle’s ribs, ruining his office, thinking Use tough methods to make him surrender.
I must live in a reality. This is the reason why he gave up the American dream. The United States claims to be democratic but wantonly interferes in the internal affairs of other countries, igniting the flames of war everywhere in the Middle East. Chang Gezi once said in class: We have to wipe every drop of blood from the invaders on the sword. This seems to give the audience a plate of uncooked meat. When the society is down, you can use this to eat your stomach, but if you use it for a long time. For food, you will get sick. But this passage was taken out of context by Bobby, and he was judged to be a jihadist through his contact with al-Qaeda leaders. As everyone knows, this is exactly what Changaiz reminded him not to take out of context after listening carefully to his story. He admonished his students not to use violence to control violence, and he also rejected the invitation of al-Qaeda leaders to join the jihadist organization. However, the CIA, which symbolizes arrogance and arrogance in the United States, would not believe it. In other words, they refused to believe that it is an American tradition to define others crudely, even Bobby, who has been working in Lahore for 7 years, is no exception. .
The conflict worsened drastically over time, and the scene suddenly became tense. The last card was opened. It turned out that Professor Rainier was also an informant placed by the CIA in the university. It was after him that Bobby started working for the CIA. At the end of the story, Professor Rainier was killed, Bobby was shot in the leg, and Changuez’s assistant Samir died forever. It’s all because Bobby thought Changuez had done something, and after telling him that Professor Rainier’s possible hiding place, he sent a message and sent someone to kill him. However, Changuez really just sent a message to his sister. SMS to report Ping An. When Bobby finally had time to see the text message: I'm safe, home soon, at least the American who wrote the democracy column began to think more deeply.
The flashback shooting technique of this movie made the story climax one after another. During those two hours, I was completely immersed in the sound, color, light and shadow of the movie. It's been a long time since I saw such a good movie of such high quality. The first film review in my life is basically a review of the context of the film. And since I only read it once, omissions are definitely inevitable, so textualists should not discuss the details with me. I wanted to conduct a deeper study on the American Dream and democratic values, but after all, my talents are limited. Except for the last part of Samir’s funeral, which is what Changuez said in class, he asked the students if they had a Pakistani dream. A dream that does not involve immigrants is like putting a bowl of begging in front of other countries, and then we will despise them, and after a while, we will despise ourselves. The answer is self-evident.
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