Bollywood is India's Hindi film base and one of the largest film bases. Basically, the high-profile films that Chinese audiences are familiar with and blurt out are all from Bollywood. To a certain extent, Bollywood movies are the biggest pastime for Indians to entertain themselves, and it is also an image carrier for the output of mainstream Indian culture.
Are you surprised that in a mainstream cultural film base, gay or lesbian is a niche and slightly rebellious subject, especially in India, a country where the status of women is comparable to yours, and it was made as a mainstream film? If you are surprised by this, it is worth watching this movie.
"Meeting That Girl" is known as "the first mainstream gay film in Bollywood history", and the gimmicks are full. India only officially decriminalized homosexuality last year, that is, until last year, India was a "homosexual decriminalization" country. "Meeting That Girl" was released after the repeal of the criminalization law, which is also an act of keeping up with current events.
"Meeting That Girl" is generally a traditional Bollywood movie except for the sexuality. At every turn, there will be a big party of singing and dancing, and the ending will be a happy and happy reunion. If you want to see some more profound homosexual content, you may be disappointed. As a comedy film, its main function is to tentatively convey moderated homosexual feelings to the public.
The film tells the story of a Hindu girl who knew her sexuality during adolescence, was isolated by her classmates because of her different sexuality, and grew up alone. Just when she thought she would be alone forever, she fell in love with the beautiful woman who sold her her brother at the wedding. The two fell in love, because the etiquette was intolerable, the heroine Xiao Tian, who tried to go to London with her lover, broke into a theater of the second generation of stars in order to escape her brother's arrest. This second-generation star was a screenwriter-director Muslim boy who was rehearsing one of his unappealing shit plays. The two had an intersection by mistake, and the Muslim boy even mistakenly thought that Xiaotian liked him, and chased after Xiaotian's hometown. This led to a series of misunderstanding stories.
There is basically no shadow of the heroine's lover on the movie poster. In the 2-hour movie, there are not many scenes of the heroine's lover for 1 hour. If you didn't know in advance that it was a gay movie, you almost thought it was a heterosexual movie about fighting for love across religions. In the whole film, there are basically no intimate scenes between the two beautiful heroines. I am afraid that many Ji Zai will be disappointed, and even resent the film's tyranny, and leave the two beautiful heroines with no welfare.
But if you really look at this point, it seems a little superficial. In addition to this extraordinarily subtlety, this film predictably analyzes the lonely heart and longing of gay children, and also depicts the family's conflicting feelings towards gay children, as well as the position of homosexuality among all other emotional barriers.
Xiao Tian was born into a wealthy family, her father loved him very much, and her younger brother also loved her very much. She is a sensitive child. She discovered the beauty of love at a very young age and began to yearn for it. She fell in love with her good friend in middle school, but her good friend got along with a male classmate, which made her realize that she is not with others. Different.
She was isolated after being discovered by her classmates about her sexuality. All her thoughts can only be written in the diary, and only the diary accompanies her. All children like her in this world suffer from loneliness like this.
Her brother discovered her secret and kept her under strict watch as he tried to correct her. Homosexual feelings are like a flood of beasts in my brother's heart, which is a shame. Hindus and Muslims fall in love, originally in Xiao Tian's house, it was impossible. The father felt sorry for his daughter, and he felt sorry for the various changes that her daughter had to accept after she fell in love with Muslims. However, after finding out that the daughter was in love with a woman, the family even preferred her to like a Muslim boy. Because falling in love with a Muslim boy is not a shame, falling in love with a Hindu woman is a shame. As a religious country, the obstacle to homosexuality is also ranked after religion, which shows its difficulty. At this moment, the happiness of the daughter and sister is actually not important anymore, what matters is their face. Abnormality and shame, this is the biggest attack on all gays and gay families.
Although this is a comedy, the Indians' ability to sensationalize is really strong. There are a lot of lonely inner monologues of daughters. Fathers read their daughters' diaries and find out what their daughters have been keeping secret for a long time. Flashback to the many details of the father and daughter's love. The father regrets that he missed so much loneliness and pain in his daughter's growth period. The sweet photos of her daughter and her true love make people's eyes wet in minutes. The director gently spread the homosexuality situation in front of everyone. Like the most famous "non-violent non-resistance movement" by the Indians, it gently and powerfully conquered the opponents.
In this movie, all the points should be dedicated to the idea and creativity of the stage play near the end of the movie. Britney has come out bravely, she will never disobey her father because of personal matters, but she represents all such children, all such children who were isolated and not understood in their childhood, longing to be loved, and longing to be tolerated. She wanted to speak for them, so she performed the rehearsed stage play as scheduled. The little girl who was locked in a transparent glass box on the stage cried hopelessly, as if she was as helpless as a young sweetie, as if she was the helpless, scared and lonely heart of all gay children. Through the director in the play, the director brought the situation of homosexuality to the stage for everyone to see. This kind of real pain is condensed and expressed to the audience, which is indeed very contagious.
Father couldn't help rushing onto the stage and said the core line of the whole film: "This is not a disease, this is love, it is God's grace to have love, how can love be a sin?" "As long as you are happy, Father is willing to give his life." Love is like a heavy hammer, directly in the heart, tears rolling down, for love, for father's love, for all the lonely children who should be loved. (The actors are real father and daughter, and the feelings look more sincere and moving)
"I and you, you and I, are different, but we all started from the same, with empathy, understanding, acceptance, and most importantly, love, we walked through this beautiful journey of life."
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