It's a fantastic movie, and since I watched a little bit of the intro, I thought there would be a chicken soup at the end. But after watching it, I found that the final chicken soup speech and the decision to drop out of school were not a failure at all. Instead, they showed the meaning of the movie more wonderfully and deeply. The content of this movie is just like what other answers have said. A local tyrant crossed the upper, middle and lower classes of India for his daughter's schooling problem, and cut the entire Indian society horizontally from a very small angle, showing it to the We have a ukiyo-e-like scene and conflict. And this kind of performance is not a way of bitterness and hatred, but expresses the folded scene of India with the unique laughter and scolding of Indian comedy, which makes people laugh and think. Especially when it corresponds to the phenomenon of the Chinese mainland, it is even more embarrassing. What I want to say is why there is such a chicken soup ending, many people criticize it for weakening the criticality of the film, but my thoughts may be a little different. The first thing we need to determine is, what class is the male protagonist? Many people say that it's very simple. He is a middle class, and he can't even get into a school, so he is definitely not a bourgeois class. But in fact, this judgment is wrong. The male protagonist is a typical bourgeoisie, and the middle class can't do the same thing as the male protagonist. The male protagonist has never worried about money in the whole movie. Even the super expensive school district houses and villas are bought as soon as they are bought. By analogy, it is equivalent to buying the school district houses and villas in Beijing Haidian without blinking an eye. Funding a primary school, plus all the students, is also without blinking, and all kinds of big-name luxury goods are bought in the same way as grocery shopping. The reason why the male protagonist did not agree to buy a school district house at the beginning was not because he could not afford it, but because he did not like to leave his familiar living environment. There are servants, subordinates, and industries. He is not an ordinary clothing seller, but a tycoon who has a reputation, a brand, and a good relationship with various designers. Elysees Avenue, a proper luxury brand. The most important thing is that not only does the male protagonist never worry about money, but he also never worries about time. He can say that if he takes a month to disappear, he will disappear in a month, and no one can control him at all. Perhaps in terms of assets, it is possible that the middle class can do the above things, but in terms of time and freedom, no middle class can have such leisurely elegance and freedom. But why is the male protagonist so cowardly in this bourgeois movie? On the one hand, the dramatic effect is required, and on the other hand, the male protagonist is a lame bourgeoisie. He is not an Indian comprador bourgeoisie, but a wild native bourgeoisie. Electricity In the film, a concept is repeatedly mentioned, that English is not only a language in India, but also a class, which is very vague. When the male protagonist gave his final speech, he also used this conflict between English and Hindi as an introduction. He is a class who never speaks English. India is a very special country, because the long-term British colonization has made the upper bourgeoisie not the national bourgeoisie, but the comprador bourgeoisie. They are inextricably linked with foreign countries, so English will become the class they advertise as a class. synonym. If it is like the Chinese bourgeoisie, or the rich and powerful, although English is also a necessary skill for them, the Chinese rich and powerful will not use English to advertise their class. This is something only the comprador bourgeoisie can do. Since the comprador bourgeoisie has the power in India, the power to make the rules is in the hands of the comprador bourgeoisie. They can openly discriminate against the male protagonist, the national bourgeoisie, and reject the male protagonist's daughter on the grounds that the male protagonist is a clothing seller. enter the school. The key is not education. The male protagonist's education is not enough, but the male protagonist's wife is highly educated, which is unreasonable in terms of academic qualifications. The school does not discriminate against the male protagonist's financial resources, but discriminates against his background. He does not belong to the comprador bourgeoisie. In fact, even if the male protagonist's daughter is refused admission to the school, the male protagonist's daughter will not be reduced to a lower class like the male protagonist's wife said. Because in the eyes of the male protagonist's wife, he doesn't speak English, and you will not be able to join a multinational company in the future, but even if you join a multinational company in India, it is unlikely that you will reach the level of the male protagonist. The male protagonist's wife is the one who has been brainwashed. She can't help lowering her class to the level of social animals. This is like a white-collar worker in Haidian, Beijing, who must be dressed in a more foreign style than Kim Jong-un, but in terms of class, Kim Jong-un left him a distance from Haidian District. So the male protagonist's final speech is not so much chicken soup as it is a declaration of the local bourgeoisie to the comprador bourgeoisie. I won't play with you, I will make my own rules. Is the final dropout chicken soup? It is clearly a bourgeoisie who transferred his daughter to a school that he invested in. This is a chicken soup. It is more realistic, right? The bourgeoisie like a single male protagonist is of course relatively weak, but when many local bourgeoisie like male protagonists appear, they will form their own circles and economic cycles, and finally produce strong political and ideological demands, and the late-developing country's Modernization will always go from full westernization to a resurgence of national characteristics, because of the birth of such a group of localized bourgeoisie. So what this film subconsciously reveals is actually very interesting. He explained that India Although the native national bourgeoisie is still in an embarrassing position, it has emerged cautiously, and it has been very progressive compared to being ignored before. PS. The collision of classes, the conflict of society, the reflection of modernity and tradition, this is the easiest place to produce great works of literature and art. We are no less than India in this regard, but unfortunately, we cannot do it, which is really baffling.
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