The film, which was released in June 2019, was directed by Ambuhaya Sinha and starred Ayushman Khurana. It was adapted from real events and completely opened the "fig leaf" of Indian police and bandit collusion. In 2014, a vicious rape and murder case occurred in Ushati village in Uttar Pradesh, India. The victims were a pair of sisters, only 14 and 16 years old. What is even more sighing is that the case was only less than two years after the "Indian black bus case". year.
The story begins after the rape and murder of a girl. A Yang, an officer who returned from studying in the UK, took over the case.
The ubiquitous caste system is portrayed in the first few minutes of the film. A Yang wanted to drink water on the road, but was told by the police: "They are untouchables, and we can't drink their water. We can't touch them, and even their shadows can't fall on us."
In the next scene, when they arrived at the police station, the policeman kept playing with the yellow dog at the door.
When the case was first investigated, the policeman Duff first prepared to close the case on the grounds that the girl's father had killed the two girls. From the painful expressions of the dead girl's relatives, Ayang guessed that the matter was not what Duff described. When a task force was set up to investigate the matter, Duff urged again, hoping to push all the sins to the victim's father and end it quickly. this case. In the film, Duff's narration is: "I have the old and the young, you don't want to break this balance because of temporary justice."
During the evidence collection process, I learned from the girl's sister that the day before they were killed, because of their livelihood, they had hoped that the contractor would be paid three rupees a day (equivalent to RMB 30 cents) , and a total of three people who disappeared together. One girl, another girl missing.
During the investigation, the director once again portrayed the caste system that is deeply rooted in the bone marrow. Ayang asked the guards to pour water for the victim's family, but they all drank it with their hands. The film is narrated by the guards. In front of them, they must be like animals. They cannot resist their demands, and they dare not drink water from a cup in front of them. Whether it is a low caste or a high caste, they have become accustomed to the cancer that spreads throughout the entire society - the caste system, and the biggest injustice is accustomed to it.
In the process of collecting evidence, A Yang needs to face the prevarication and evasion of the local police, the obstruction of the Central Bureau of Investigation and the threat of the forensic doctor during the process of collecting evidence, so the truth is difficult to surface. In the end, the imprisoned girl was found in the pipeline of the abandoned factory. The girl was dying. The Supreme Court reinstated A Yang, arrested all the people involved, and released the suspect wronged by the police. At the end of the film, A Yang took the police and the poor of the lower castes to sit together, eating the same food and drinking the same water.
In the film, in addition to the fearful eyes of the little girl before she was victimized, the people of the upper castes who stung me all used "these people" to refer to the people of the lower castes. In their minds "these people" are like they don't exist in India.
A Yang portrayed in the film is full of justice and dares to challenge. He is like inserting a sharp sword into India's fundamental contradiction. He said in the film, "Why is it in 2019, and it is still following a two-thousand-year system". The whole film, from the characterization of the police's perception and the state of the village, feels like watching a film half a century ago. Only when Ayang returns from studying in Europe in a suit and leather shoes, will he have a little bit of India in 2019.
The police know this is not justice, and one of them said: Look at this history, are these girls safe? Caste system, sexism, rape, India has existed since ancient times. Ordinary people can only be forced to accept that high castes oppress low castes, and low castes oppress unidentified pariahs.
Article 15 of the Indian Constitution has long stipulated that no one shall be discriminated against on the basis of race, religion, or birth, but the Indian caste system, which has lasted for two thousand years, is still a cancer that spreads throughout the entire society.
In the whole drama, the ending seemed good, but it didn't make me relieved. The helpless and desperate eyes of the victim's relatives, the powerful and powerful contractor's eyes on human life, the ugly face of the police and bandit collusion, and what they did. Taken for granted, the film is full of injustice and humiliation.
Indian movies in recent years have revealed the darkness in the country, but they have only exposed the tip of the iceberg. Although they can cause violent repercussions in India, the huge iceberg is difficult to shake in a short period of time. The director of "Article 15" said: In India, no one can escape the shackles of the caste system. There is a kind of injustice called habituation. Indeed, the racial system is like a fig leaf. Underneath is the exploitation, oppression and slavery that have lasted for more than two thousand years. It requires the efforts of generations. The concept of two thousand years may need to be transformed in a hundred years. How many people have suffered injustice and humiliation?
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