Feminism in the shadow of patriarchy

Ken 2022-03-25 09:01:08

The whole movie feels very deliberate. It is more like a girl's dream under the shadow of patriarchy than a girl inheriting her father's business. At the beginning, she longed to have a child and inherit her dream until she got an opportunity to impose a wrestling dream on her two daughters. The girl quietly resisted, the wedding ceremony. The slap on the top is what disgusts me the most, even if the young bride cries and says that your father loves you, this is still another kind of power that I don't like. It means that the next generation has to live with the thoughts of the previous generation. In essence, it is no different from the Indian patriarchy that controls young brides. What I want to see more than this is the self-awakening of women, pulling my dad and saying, "I want to learn wrestling." Then my sister went all the way to the National Sports Academy, where she slackened and learned new methods of coaching, but in order to highlight the male The main halo, the coach must be an idiot, and his new method can't be better than his father's old method. At the same time, the girl's long and short hair is a symbol of obedience and rebellion against patriarchy. The younger daughter doesn't have much role in the movie. As a sticker of her father's will, she urges her sister who is starting to relax. The absence of her father in the last game made the eldest daughter a complete father in her father's teachings. Because this victory made some Indian girls start to practice wrestling and forcibly add the meaning of feminism always feels awkward, which means that this kind of feminist awakening can only be realized under the shadow of a strong patriarchy. The plot of the coach instructing people to keep his father locked up really brings down the grade of the movie. The coach who represents the bureaucracy is a wretched little belly. The wrestling scenes and dubbing are good, and Aamir Khan devoted himself to the arts by feeding himself into a pot-bellied middle-aged father in order to play a father.

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Dangal quotes

  • Mahavir Singh Phogat: You have to fight in a way that people will remember you. If you win silver, sooner or later, you will be forgotten. If you win gold, you will be an example, And examples are given, child... not forgotten. See those girls? If you win tomorrow, you will not win alone. Millions of girls like them will win along with you. It will be a victory for every girl who is considered inferior to boys; who is forced into household chores, who is married off to just raise children. Tomorrow's match is the most important one. Because tomorrow, we are not fighting just that Australian, but all those people who think lesser of girls.

  • [from trailer]

    Mahavir Singh Phogat: All along, I was desperate for a son so he could win a gold in wrestling for India. But what didn't occur to me was that gold is gold. Whether won by a boy or a girl.