AsiaAsian fathers always have a similar image. If you use a few words to explore the contours of Asian fathers, you should intuitively see gray words such as "taciturn", "strong" and "stubborn", but returning to ethics And the emotion itself, the final image will be brought back to the father figure in Zhu Ziqing's "Back". The heavy father's love will always let those paranoid and hegemonic images melt silently in the warmth at the moment of "letting go". middle. The recently released and widely acclaimed Indian film "Wrestle, Dad" has created such a classic image of an Asian father. Against the unique social background of India, "Wrestle! "Dad" wraps the core of father-daughter love in a sports and inspirational movie. The film is lovely and bloody, with a solid script. Although it can't escape conventional routines, it can still be called a wonderful commercial masterpiece as a whole under the package of extremely skilled narrative skills. However, it is unavoidable that the conflict between the patriarchal consciousness and the rise of women in the film text tends to lead to disputes outside the film. Let’s talk about the patriarchal system first. In a country with a strong patriarchal system like India, women in the middle and lower classes of society often have no status. In the movie, the father played by Aamir Khan arbitrarily deprived him of his gold medal dream. In the childhood of the two daughters, this conflict of parents' will imposed on the children is also common in China. However, this kind of movie plot caused by "wrong values" tends to make the movie text carry "original sin". Obviously, the screenwriter also noticed this problem. , and even deliberately arranged a passage to whitewash the "wrong values". The reason they gave was that women at the bottom of Indian society had no status. The father deprived his daughter of childhood and forced to learn wrestling. In the long run, it was to make his daughter But on such a miserable life. The movie tries to use such a bridge to find an excuse for the "original sin" of the plot, but the audience who can think independently should be able to see that this is a kind of sophistry. From the plot point of view, I really can't see that my father had such a motive at first , so this unintentional mistake is an "original sin" that the film cannot avoid, which is a mistake born under the Asian father system. But if you look at the rise of women, "Wrestle! "Dad" seems to be a very "progressive" work in terms of the content itself and the social impact after its release. The two daughters in the film eventually grew into independent and responsible women, while the father finally The letting go has turned all the previous conflicts into a strong warmth, and this kind of father's letting go can also be seen as a release for the rise of women in terms of symbols. In a country like India with an extremely strong patriarchal system In, "Wrestle! Dad" is nothing short of a bold and progressive work.
As a commercial-oriented film, "Wrestle! "Dad" is still lovely and wonderful, not only the bland and interesting Indian rural life, the euphemism and delicacy of the father-daughter relationship, but also the blood of the competitive spirit. India is far less powerful than China in world sports, but as an excellent sports and inspirational movie, it is enough to make Chinese movies ashamed. In recent years, Indian movies have made great progress, and there have been many excellent commercial movies with international influence. In recent years, although Chinese sports inspirational films have also had excellent film works such as "Fighting War", but from the perspective of playwriting, narrative skills and the level of dedication of the actors (see Aamir Khan who has increased or decreased by 70 pounds), The difference is obvious. Taking into account various realistic factors in Indian society and some unreliable humanistic viewpoints, "Wrestle! Dad" is also a somewhat contradictory film (contradictory is not derogatory here), it has both backward and progressive textual content, just like Indian society itself, ancient and complex, facing various problems, but also can see Some kind of striving for progress.
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