India has always been a tangled country for me.
It has the same long and splendid civilization as China. It has achieved world-renowned achievements in the fields of architecture, religion, and thought. I hope that one day I can visit this country and trace its past. However, when you really go deep into the real life of India, you can realize how serious and daunting the social problems it faces. "Delhi Crime" is well presented.
The most real thing about the film is the high degree of restoration of India and the events themselves. In terms of the objective scene layout, whether it is the police station as the main scene or the living environment of many characters in the play, there are many photos interspersed between the shots, although not absolute, but still reflect the current situation in India:
Even for the employees of the capital's police station, their environment is not as good as it should be. The second is the description of social contradictions. The police station may face power outages several times a day;
The grassroots police have a weak sense of law and responsibility. For example, the sub-chief (can no longer be counted as the grassroots) applies for a rest to the deputy police commissioner, hoping to go to the gym, and the police officers feel that they are just wasting their time when they are on business trips, complaining about the poor accommodation and food in the travel places, etc.;
The so-called baton is nothing but a wooden pole or a bamboo pole. Even the police inspector is not equipped with handcuffs and other equipment when arresting criminals. This can be referred to the statement of the police commissioner at the meeting of the chief minister: the New York Police Department’s budget last year was four. One billion dollars, the city has a population of nearly nine million, the Derry Police Department has a budget of $45 million, and the city has a population of nearly 17 million. Our officers are on call 24 hours a day, no one pays them overtime, sometimes they only see their family twice a month because they can't go home, and when they're on duty they pay for gas and will not be compensated. Some of them have been foreshadowed in previous episodes. In all fairness, the long-term inefficiency of the police has led to this tragedy more or less. Even an increase in the budget cannot prevent such incidents, and there will even be a lot of corruption. But many things are directly related to pay and return. You cannot expect a police system with a budget of 40 million to play the role of a police station with a budget of 400 million, not to mention that in India there are still education levels, caste system, gender inequality, Additional restrictions such as the wealth gap;
The last point, vaguely reflected in the plot - the tragedy of ordinary people, but the waves in the eyes of big people. When there is a fault in emotional resonance, the fate of the little people is marginalized, the demands of justice give way to political interests, and the social structure inevitably appears pathological.
In addition, the narrative techniques and shots of this film tend to be calm and steady, the tone is also relatively depressed, and the emotional richness and tension are in place. The protagonist's anger is hidden under the surface of calm and rationality, which complements the occasional outbreak. The seven-episode length may be further compressed, but there is no sense of procrastination.
In short, "Delhi Crime" gives people a sense of reality and plot of a documentary + American drama, retains the social significance, and tries to reproduce the tragedy that shocked the world. Personally, I like it very much.
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