revenge movie
Omnipotent is a revenge movie.
What is a revenge movie?
It is a story in which the villain will hurt or even kill important people or other things around the protagonist, and then be avenged by the protagonist.
Because it belongs to the type of film that is suppressed first and then erupted , revenge films are generally defined as cool films, which can make the audience feel a sense of breath after watching it.
However, with the development of the times, compared with the old revenge movies such as "I Spit on Your Grave", many revenge movies now add some metaphorical plots to social problems.
For example, the Korean movies "Earthworm" and "Don't Cry Mom" are metaphors for school bullying, and "A Mother's Revenge", which was released in China last month, addresses issues such as the status of women in Indian society.
And "Omnipotence" is also such a kind of revenge film.
Elderly and sickly "disabled"
Among the vulnerable groups in society, that is, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled in the popular sense, the disabled are often the most easily ignored by the public.
There is no way, simply the problem of "support or not" is enough to attract the attention of the society to the elderly, not to mention that there are many countries with serious population aging.
News of school bullying and women being violated are not uncommon in today's society.
For patients, the issue of the doctor-patient relationship has always been the most ardent concern.
There are only disabled people, and few people pay attention to them. Even social discrimination against this group is not uncommon, and this situation is more common in Indian society with a very strong class concept.
The hero and heroine of "Omnipotent" are disabled people who are blind in both eyes.
The male and female protagonists with physical defects can find jobs and live on their own with their own efforts, but they have different attitudes towards life.
The heroine Su has always felt inferior because she is a disabled person, while the hero Luo Han has always insisted on her dignity, and has been leading Su, making her slowly move towards the road of self-confidence.
The first half of the movie is very beautiful. It tells the story of two blind people from knowing to falling in love, from inferiority complex to self-confidence, from "this is the case in this life" to "I want to have a home", it can be said that the rendering of the atmosphere is quite good , which also contrasts sharply with the later misfortunes.
The world through the eyes of the blind
Not long after Luohan and Su were together, they were targeted by "the son of the powerful" Amit.
Amit later took the opportunity to rape Su twice, and claimed that he would often come to violate her in the future. Luohan and Su went to report the case, but Amit was tough in the background, and the police had already collected the benefits, but the result was nothing.
After Su hanged himself, Luohan, who had no way to litigate, was determined to avenge Amit and others with everything he had.
Amit is actually the epitome of "social man" in India.
He has power and background, so he has a strong sense of superiority by nature .
Are disabled people ineligible to enjoy the rights of normal people? In the eyes of these people with a strong sense of class, the answer is yes.
They think that if you are disabled, it means that you are still a little short of the standard line of normal people, so you naturally have no right to enjoy what normal people can have.
Specific to this movie, Amit's attitude is: "Even normal people like us can't sleep with beautiful girls, what qualifications do you have as a blind man?"
Of course, in his eyes, Su is just a beautiful woman who can be violated at any time, because she is also just a blind person. In Amit's eyes, a disabled person like Su who is "one line from a normal person" doesn't deserve anything at all. A good life is only worthy of being his vent.
After the misfortune, Sue chose to commit suicide, which was also predictable - she had no other way out.
If it was Su, who had low self-esteem before she met Luo Han, perhaps she would be submissive. At that time, she was so inferior that she did not dare to have a blind date or marry.
But after Luohan was together, she realized that there was no need to worry about her physical defects at all. They blind people could live a normal life, get married like ordinary people, and they also had their own dignity.
After being violated, under the circumstances that the police refused to accept it, in the face of Amit's threat of "I will come to you in the future", in order to maintain her dignity, she could only choose to commit suicide.
As for the hero Luohan, after Su committed suicide, he was determined to take revenge on the powerful, which is actually a beautiful sustenance of the movie for reality.
Because in the real Indian society, there is no "blind man" like Arhat.
In the face of bullying, most people with disabilities can only survive, or they can only choose to die.
After all, lawyers and other top students in India believe that "it's their fault that women are raped", and even the rights and interests of ordinary women cannot be guaranteed, let alone the disabled?
blind man
"Omnipotence" is always a good film, so the discussion of the relationship between society and the disabled ends here. The third act of the film is Luohan's revenge against the powerful.
Although it is a cool film, but since Luohan is always blind, it is unreliable to let him kill the powerful and powerful one by one with a knife like a normal revenge film, so the film adopts a unique method- provocation . alienation .
Because the film sets Luohan's job as a voice actor, he has the skills to imitate various different voices, and finally successfully provoked the relationship between the powerful and powerful by changing his voice, and let them kill each other first.
But perhaps considering that revenge through this tactic is not exciting enough, the movie still falls into a cliché fighting mode.
Luohan, a blind man who fought against a big man with healthy limbs, has won many battles. In the end, Amit's brother Sherard had pointed a gun at his head, but he couldn't beat the killer and had to continue fighting. Although the audience was very cool, it was also very exciting. further increases the inaccuracy.
But the most dramatic part of the film is the ending. In the middle section, the corrupt police rejected Luohan and Su's report on the grounds that "blind people cannot be witnesses" . At the end, the police thought they had found a clue that Luohan used the phone to alienate the powerful. Who knew that the owner of the phone booth was also a blind man .
Although the revenge scene is very cool to watch, it can not help but make people think.
It's a social irony for a disabled person to be "omnipotent".
As far as the movie itself is concerned, if there is no official-official affair, and justice can be given to Luohan and Su, why would Luohan have his hands covered in blood?
You must know that he is a blind man who can't see anything, and his road to revenge is more difficult than that of normal people. To what extent does this force people to do evil things with a broken body?
Strictly speaking, because the second half of the film is slightly unrealistic, "Omnipotent" is not a very good film.
But anyway, this movie is still worth watching.
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