I am afraid that in this film, I will see a Bollywood song and dance similar to the MV in the 1980s. The hero wears white tights, the heroine wears a sari and a nose ring, and there are some dancers in the back, which will be a lively plot. Made into an MV.
Luckily, nothing terrified me in this movie.
This is an atypical Indian film. In terms of filming, many of the techniques commonly used in Indian films have been abandoned, such as singing and dancing, and the actors' exaggerated performances. Perhaps in order to cater to the aesthetics of audiences in the world market, the director restrained himself by using only a few songs to express the plot. Whether it is good or bad, this is a matter of benevolent opinion, at least for me it is very useful.
The movie is based on a true story, so I won't go into details about the plot here. I mainly want to discuss the issue of screenwriters. Perhaps the screenwriter wanted to show all aspects of Khan to the audience too much. When he was a child, his mother took him to find a teacher. He was bullied by his classmates, and his younger brother was angry and used a bicycle to drain the water. . . . . . Waiting for these stories of Khan's childhood to be detailed one by one, in fact, in my opinion, this is completely unnecessary. The film of more than two hours, if the previous childhood life is briefly described, focusing on the mother's attitude during the religious conflict, it may be much cleaner.
In addition, perhaps the story itself is complicated enough. A person with autism, who grew up under the careful care of his mother, was run on by his younger brother. Finally, in a country and period that is quite sensitive to religion and ethnicity, for the sake of his beloved, he embarked on a journey to find the president.
In this way, the screenwriter desperately wanted to express quite grand themes such as maternal love, religion, belief, persistence, love, misunderstanding, etc. in 2 hours, does it seem a little powerless.
At the very beginning of the film, I thought this film was about the growth of an autistic child. In the middle of the film, I thought the film was going to tell the success story of an autistic man. Later, I thought it was a love story about an autistic man looking for true love. It was only later that I realized that the film also wanted to express religion and belief. And finally, I finally realized that the screenwriter also wanted to tell us that those who persist will always succeed.
All kinds of confusion, all kinds of clues, tangled in this more than 160 minutes of film.
However, as far as I can see, the quality of a movie is not limited to whether the director is competent, whether the screenwriter is rigorous, whether the special effects are in place, and other hardware facilities. In addition, what kind of thinking the entire film will bring to the audience may also be another indicator of whether a film is successful.
By this standard, this movie can also be regarded as a very good movie.
It's as if we are now seeing a hawker selling Xinjiang cut cakes on the street, will you be more or less worried, and will he kill me if you buy his cut cakes? Or if you see Tibetan women selling Tibetan silver yak skull dzi beads at street stalls, you will think without even looking at them, they are definitely selling fakes.
Well, even 70% of the hawkers selling Xinjiang cut cakes will be short of liang, and 70% of the Tibetan silver is fake, but there are still 30% of the Xinjiang hawkers and Tibetan hawkers. They operate honestly and have no children. bully.
I don't have any geographical discrimination here, it's just that people have formed a deep-rooted concept, just like in the movie, Muslims are terrorists, and khans are terrorists.
So the male protagonist kept saying, "My name is Khan, and I'm not a terrorist." However, if there was no media attention, how many people would believe his words?
Faith, religion, nationality, etc. are only part of a person, other than that, it does not prevent him from living in this world as a kind person.
Perhaps the best picture is when Khan came to the small black village and placed a photo of his son next to the portrait of a soldier who died in the Afghan war, and everyone sang for the deceased in the Catholic church. At this moment, the two people are no different, even if one believes in God and the other believes in Allah.
As Khan's mother said, there are only two kinds of people in this world, one is good and the other is bad.
All complex issues, beliefs, religions, conflicts and misunderstandings, are judged by this standard, the world will be much simpler.
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