Friends who know Indian movies, naturally know that there were good movies such as "Three Silly in Bollywood" and "Stars on Earth" in the early days.
However, since the Indian movie "Wrestle, Dad" exploded in China, the ratings of Indian films have generally been extremely high, just like the generally high ratings of early Korean films.
This time, "Mysterious Superstar", the first sign is Aamir Khan . Many people say that this is one of the N-parts of Aamir Khan's daughter, so let's define it as such.
But Da Cong felt a little incredible about the extremely high rating of this "Mysterious Superstar".
In short, after watching it, Da Cong felt that the movie was full of routines, the main line of the plot seemed familiar, conflicts and conflicts were commonplace, and the ending was of course expected.
Generally speaking, the script of a movie should be wiser than the audience, so that when watching a movie, you can look down with questions.
But "Mysterious Superstar" doesn't want to do this. At the beginning of each scene in the whole film, you can guess how the next plot will be played out.
For example, at the beginning of the mother's swollen eyes, it can be inferred that this is a domestic violence family. When the domestic violence man comes back, he just plays it step by step to show the audience how the domestic violence man is violent, and how the mother and daughter are swallowed up. .
Then, when a girl wears a veil to become an internet celebrity, she will know that her clicks will definitely break the chart, and she will definitely encounter various obstacles and setbacks in the star dream, but as expected, the ending will definitely make her happy. star dream
At this time, the movie has progressed to one-fifth, but the plot is almost finished, and it is all in (please praise me).
In addition, the singing pictures of the story, although the songs are good, the songs of Indian movies are not like American musicals, which use songs to promote the plot.
On the contrary, the reason why Indian movies often have MVs in the movies is due to their national conditions. In India, because of the low per capita income, in order to make everyone feel that it is worth the price, the movie will be shot for a long time, 2 and a half hours is the standard , 3 hours is the norm.
The MV songs in the film are to make the audience more pleasing to the eyes and worth the ticket price. Of course, this is also a major feature of Indian films. There are no good or bad reviews, but only to state the facts. These MVs do not promote the plot.
"Mysterious Superstar" has dream topics, feminist topics, social and family topics, so inspirational, so sensational, so cliché. But we just love this one.
Moreover, good Indian film routines often poke the sensational and conflicting points of these films to a very precise position, so that the audience burst into tears at the right time, and they couldn't stop it.
"Mystery Superstar" is a good movie, but not necessarily a good movie.
The look and feel of the movie is still the same as watching "Wrestle, Dad" before, and Da Cong has never been able to rate this type of movie extremely high. Because they are a system of their own.
The stories of these films, on the surface, are all about chasing dreams, breaking free, and the themes are huge, but the pattern has always been minimal.
Take "Mysterious Superstar" as an example, even if the domestic violence man is replaced by a loving father like "Wrestling Dad", he will support the young heroine Incia to fulfill her music dream.
So the question is, if Incia doesn't have musical talent, and YouTube hits record is not broken, even if she doesn't wear a veil, her room becomes an online celebrity live broadcast room, and the hits will be mediocre.
At this time, she wrote songs in class, she skipped class to participate in the audition, do the parents still support it, and do you still support the movie watchers?
Whether this kind of film trend is closer to reality, is it closer to the status quo of almost all people who embrace music dreams.
As the saying goes, the artist is really something that God eats.
Especially in music, it is difficult for Da Cong to use the right time, place and people to describe people with musical talent, because a good voice and musical talent can quickly let everyone know you in today's Internet age.
But the problem is, now is the era of "gold will shine soon", and it is also the most cruel era, because as long as you try it, you will know whether you have it or not.
So go back and watch another movie about the talent "Genius Girl" , the discussion of the theme can make people think more.
The movie also talked about a very talented girl, but the routine of the movie was the opposite. The girl's talent was not underappreciated. On the contrary, many people hoped that the girl could get the best training.
But the focus of the film is on such a talented girl, what kind of person she wants to become, what kind of life she needs in the future, and whether her talent really needs to be shown.
Looking back at "Mysterious Superstar", it's still the old-fashioned plot from many years ago. The little heroine was underappreciated. After suffering, she finally stood out. The audience and the protagonist were happy and cried together.
But Da Cong still doesn't think that a movie that makes you cry or makes you laugh is a good movie.
Otherwise , "Mom Loves Me Again" would have already become the number one Chinese movie. Do you know how many people actually cried when this movie was released?
At this time, you will retort again, saying that the issues of women's rights in India, the issue of equal freedom, the issue of domestic violence, etc. exposed by "Mysterious Superstar" are very profound.
Sorry, I still can't agree. As Da Cong said earlier, the theme of the film is very big, but the layout is very small.
It's not a movie that touches on social contradictions, it's a great movie. This kind of topic selection is a shortcut that attracts attention, but it is not the final outcome.
The mother of "Mysterious Superstar" is a representative of many women who have been abused in India. She also lived in a patriarchal family since she was a child. When she was a teenager, she married this domestic abuser in an arranged marriage.
The daughter tried every means to find a way out for her to leave the domestic abuser, but she still insisted that this was her life.
Just as my aunt told her, your mother's biggest mistake was giving birth to you, and my mother's biggest mistake was giving birth to me.
But my mother accepted her fate for decades, and was slapped in the face in the film. She watched her daughter's guitar cut, her computer smashed, and her daughter's mother who didn't dare to say anything when she wanted to marry a stranger . The guitar on the plane, completely transformed.
Seeing this, everyone's emotions have arrived, and they all clapped their hands and applauded.
But thinking about the final outbreak of the character design is very illogical. From the psychological analysis of the characters in the script, the dilemma made by the characters at the most oppressive times can only express the character's heart and the transformation of the characters.
Any of the previous episodes of a domestic abuser's violence against his wife, his abuse of his daughter's dreams, and his contempt for women are more ferocious than the one at the airport. Why didn't he bring his guitar on the plane? Woolen cloth?
Da Cong is really puzzled. Domestic violence men are not allowed to bring guitars on the plane. Just buy one when you go abroad!
In short, it's not that the film doesn't let the mother change at the end, but the scene of throwing a guitar at the airport, compared with the previous violence, is not the motivation for the mother's change.
In addition, the end of the movie is a closed-loop ending, which is the so-called Great Perfection. Although the mother said "no" to the domestic abuser at the end, it was very "burning" and very passionate in the eyes of the airport.
Under this "illusion", the audience felt that all issues of women's rights and equality between men and women were perfectly solved under the signature of the mother.
But in fact, the social problems pointed out in the film still exist, but the film uses a climax and dreamy ending, which hides a lot of thinking.
To put it directly, the film uses the current social problems in India to just advocate that everyone has the courage to change, and if you change, you can have a better life.
But the film does not want everyone to think, if your daughter is not a child prodigy, and an illiterate mother with two ordinary children, how will your future life and financial resources work? !
To put it bluntly, "Mystery Superstar" is only an isolated example of social issues in India and cannot be used as any reference.
However, Aamir Khan is powerful in that he used "Mysterious Superstar" to push back into reality. Through the story of the movie, he started the activity of "Searching for Mysterious Superstars".
Among them, for the song "Main Kaun Hoon" (who am I) in the movie, he found a 15-year-old amateur singer from many ordinary people to sing for the movie.
Of course, the singer's parents are a pair of parents who support their daughter's musical dreams, and the family is happy (the girl's parents are on the far right).
She records songs in reality, and she won't wear a veil because she is worried about her father's discovery. For the specific story, you can poke Da Cong's other article about her in detail: "Mysterious Superstar" found a music prodigy in the folk, and she is the real one mystery superstar
In addition, the story of "Mysterious Superstar" actually has a prototype, which Aamir Khan heard from a tragic single mother.
The child whose mother had no musical talent. After she left the violent family, she got a driver's license, became a taxi driver, and worked hard to support her child.
So Mystery Superstar is special, it's dreamy, it's a bubble floating on social issues in India, it's beautiful, it's endearing, but it pops when you poke it.
Throughout many Indian movies, it is the same routine.
First frame the characters in a depressing environment, then break free through various inspirational beliefs and courage, add some singing and dancing, and let the audience see a happy ending at the final climax. The audience laughed and cried in the movie theater and was satisfied.
It has to be said that if the quality of this kind of film is made, it is really good-looking. The film of this line in India has also touched many people, and this kind of theme can please the audience's ratings better than Hollywood commercial blockbusters.
Audiences also need a placebo for the dream in the movie to become reality.
But have you noticed that films of this type in India are very popular and popular, but in major film festivals around the world, there is no trace of Indian films, as if they exist in another world.
To talk about the influence of Indian films in the world, it can be traced back to the era of Satyajit Ray decades ago.
As early as 1957, his "Song of the Earth" won the Venice Golden Lion Award, "Metropolis" in 1964 and "The Lonely Wife" in 1965 , won the best director of the Berlin Film Festival for two consecutive years, and "Distant Thunder" in 1973 . He won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992.
Have the opportunity to learn about these films, they are the masterpieces that really think about India's acute social problems!
After chatting so much, it is estimated that many officials are already gearing up to scold. Da Cong once again reiterated that the public needs commercial films like "Mysterious Superstar".
Moreover, Da Cong is Aamir Khan's super little fanboy.
But as far as the film is concerned, everyone can appreciate the good parts of the film, but it is worthy of questioning and discussion, and Da Cong also wants to share with you.
At the end of the day, Mystery Superstar is high-pitched, but not high-level.
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