"The greatest invention in India is the chicken coop", it seemed very funny when I first heard this sentence, how can this be regarded as an invention; however, after watching the Indian movie "White Tiger", I realized that the chicken coop really It is the greatest invention of India, and even the greatest invention of mankind.
We generally think that the poverty of a place is caused by the laziness of the people in that place, and most of the views of India and Africans are similar. We have ridiculed India's caste system, social division, urban-rural binary, etc. many times, but are they born like this? Going back to our country, the contradiction between urban and rural binary opposition is gradually deepening. Migrant workers and other people are collectively silent on the Internet. Now screenwriters have also given their innocence and conscience to the rich and left their scheming to the poor. Why are they born? Inferior?
I still remember a social survey to see if Africans are really lazy. We aid Africa domestically. When we provide jobs to Africa so that they can improve their lives through work, Africans do not show laziness, but work as hard as we do work and then improve your life. Their previous laziness was only because there was no place to provide them with jobs, and the surplus labor was not liberated at all.
The story of the Indian movie "White Tiger" is relatively simple. The slave Balam was originally intelligent when he was a child. He had the opportunity to study in New Delhi, but due to family reasons, he missed the study and participated in labor when he was a minor to subsidize family life. , the cattle in the family have the highest status, and then the people. Because cattle are the finances of the landlord's family, their family needs to hand over two-thirds of their income to the landlord, which also causes his father to die of exhaustion. The first time Balam met the youngest son of the landlord's family who had returned from the United States as an adult, he vowed to be the driver of the landlord's youngest son, the servant of the landlord's family. At that time, he didn't realize that he should not be a servant. He felt that he was a servant of the landlord's house as he should be. After he became the driver of the landlord's house, he still needed to help the landlord's house with other work, cleaning and massage, etc. . And his salary is 2000 rupees per month (about 200 yuan)
When people are squeezed by capital, we can't realize our due value. Our domestic factory assembly line workers are actually similar to this. They have been squeezed by capital and have lost their lives, only survival. The demographic dividend is really the dividend of the capitalists and elites, while the general public is just the fuel for the dividend.
After Balam became a servant of the landlord's house, his servility soared, ingratiating himself with the landlord, informing and crowding out other servants. He thought that the landlord would give him a little more in this way, and indeed, he got a gift for the landlord's youngest son, A Xiao. opportunity to go to New Delhi.
The most ironic point in this film is that one of the socialist female politicians that Balam admires most is a corrupt person. She obtained her political status under the banner of socialism, and then used her political status to protect her. Unscrupulous business owners make money. This is also one of the reasons for the collapse of the Balam faith.
The reason Ashok went to New Delhi was because the female politician asked for bribes and their family was ready to bribe her political opponents. Ashok and his wife Ping Ji, who had returned from the United States, still had real ideas of democracy, freedom and equality. When Ping Ji's couple was seeking excitement and killed a child with a car, the true nature of Ashok landlords was revealed, and they asked Balam to take the blame. As a result, the landlord's family also called Balam a brother, and when the accident passed the police station and no one was investigated, Balam was just a servant who could beat and scold at will.
Because of the landlord's behavior and Ashok's vagueness and his intention to return to New York, Ping Ji gradually became disappointed with Ashok, and turned around and returned to New York alone and divorced Ashok. Ashok was hit hard by this. As a faithful servant, how could Balam not try his best to express himself at this time. While taking care of his master to help him regain his strength, he played the image of a good servant, but at the same time, he was consciously awakened. He thought that he was more than worth the price. The owner picks up private work and buys gasoline.
It is a pity that this film is only a revenge film. It is a story narrated in the context of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's visit to India by means of a slave who succeeded in turning over with revenge. After Balam noticed the money and the target of the bribe, and because he realized that the owner Ashok had the intention of replacing himself, he picked up the fragments of the wine bottle and stabbed Ashok to death, and took Ashok to pay the bribe. 4 million in bribes, and through the resulting capital to bribe government officials, start a taxi company and become a successful entrepreneur.
There is a scene in the film where Baram recites a poem by the poet Iqbal "When you recognize the beauty of this world, you are no longer a slave." This could have been extended to the awakening of people's consciousness. It's a pity that the awakening of the protagonist's consciousness in the end is only his own revenge, such an ending is really a pity.
Now look at India's performance in the epidemic, they are really trapped by Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent non-cooperation. It has not experienced a complete national liberation movement, and it is still being economically colonized by the West. In fact, the current world pattern has not changed much from the pattern in the wave of world colonization before World War II, except that it has changed from military colonization to economic colonization. France, which insults the law every day, still controls many countries in Africa. Our neighboring countries, Japan and South Korea, have been castrated, and the cemetery of the Middle East empire is just a tug-of-war between European countries. Even our country's Taiwan, which cannot be recovered so far, is under the strategic deterrence of the United States.
Capital is shrinking, wealth is more and more concentrated in the hands of a few people, and it is increasingly difficult for young people without capital to survive. Most of the world's major developed countries and economies have an aging population. The Internet was originally connected to the world, but now it is becoming more and more closed. Now, the information cocoon room created by the Internet information recommendation mechanism, the Internet has also begun to separate, and their small circles are difficult to understand each other, the collision of ideas between different classes is decreasing, class barriers are getting higher and higher, and different classes may connect and touch. In getting smaller, we are making chicken coops for ourselves, and even if we have the key in our hands, we will throw it away and spit.
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