"Suicide Live Broadcast": When suicide becomes a tool of the game, Reivew on Peepli [Live]

The farmland on which the brothers depended for their survival was going to be auctioned, and they looked into a situation where there was nowhere to go. By chance, I heard that as long as you commit suicide, you will get a compensation of 100,000 yuan from the government. This finally gave the brothers hope and confidence in life. After repeatedly deciding who should die, the brothers began a "suicide journey." However, there are unforeseen circumstances, just in time for the white-hot elections of the two parties, suicide has become not so easy. Not only did all the news media gather in front of their homes to wait for the live broadcast of the suicide, but even the armed police forces were fully armed and standing by at all times. Because their "suicide" has become a political contest.

The whole film is filled with black humor, and lacks the usual big scenes of singing and dancing. It tells a drama in a proper way, which makes the film controlled within two hours, instead of two representative Indian movies. Half a time. The most worth mentioning is the producer Amir Khan. If you have seen "Three Idiots" and "Stars on Earth", you will not be unfamiliar with him. It's the handsome, big-eyed, a little short and versatile Amir Khan. This time, he dug deep into India's humanistic feature films.

It is said that understanding the poverty of modern India should start with "Slumdog Millionaire", but when I watched this film, I still had a shocking feeling. Living in a thatched adobe house in a barren land is also subject to various ravages and squeezes. When the major news media gathered in the courtyard to wait for the suicide scene, it felt like Americans were in Africa. Could it be that this is a so-called democratic country. Democracy is all about getting rid of poverty, but the reality does not seem to have changed too much. Or they are also taking the route of letting some people get rich first, that's unknown.

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