In fact, even in the process of watching, even when I admire the director's intentions and Hrithik's wonderful performance, I still have a feeling of "this is the story of African refugees sympathizing with polar bears".
Compared with the well-known sing-song-and-jump Bollywood assembly line spice movie (Masala Movie) with various mythological developments, this movie has exquisite details, delicate emotions, and the director's scheduling and actors' performances are impeccable. You can brazenly call it a literati film, but it still becomes a bad film (not a bad film): because it is good, it has nothing to do with ordinary Indians living on a dime. It's a surreal blockbuster.
The surrealism here does not mean those vulgar romantic tragicomedy and bloody police chases. In the eyes of Indian audiences, no matter how gaudy the rich and powerful grievances are, it at least happened in India. No matter how bizarre the cops and gangsters chase, the cops also wear yellow khaki uniforms, and they are just as arrogant and corrupt as the community police officers that Indians recognize. The kind of life that handsome men and beauties experience on the screen is unimaginable for the young people off the screen, but the audience can effortlessly understand the kind of logic, the kind of inner emotion, and the kind of context that drives the movie forward; The love between men and women, the angry youth who resisted the corrupt police, the ancient justice Dharma that both sides revered in the gang struggle and ruled India for two thousand years - even if the packaging is bright and beautiful, those vulgar blockbusters are based on the common people's favorites. way of being close to their hearts.
Compared to those cheesy spice films, "Guzaarish" is noble, noble, deep, and delicate. Yes, the questions it asks are the ultimate questions of human nature. Compared with those gaudy surreal films, it is more Much more thoughtful—yes, but the moral issues it explores, no matter how noble, have nothing to do with the audience, and its thoughts float high above the beautiful, illusory sky of Goa that is rendered in purple, blue, purple and blue by filters, untouched at all. Bharat earth atmosphere. Its emotion, logic is flawless, but it is completely out of touch with the emotional life and logic of Indians. How philosophical is its proposition: death is the last and only freedom of mankind! However, it is too late for ordinary people to survive. Who has time to discuss with you about dying? ! In a word, if you discuss with someone who can't even get enough to eat, you are especially sad and especially Wen Qing's life can't bear the light/heavy weight or no matter what the weight is, even if the other party won't beat you, at least they won't beat you at all. Even if the film professes to be about the humanities, it is certainly not about the humanities of the average Indian audience. What it wants to say is too sensitive and delicate, and the audience it faces has not yet reached the point where it needs such sensitivity and delicacy to desensitize thoughts and emotions. I can imagine that when Sofia in the movie is leaning on the magician's shoulder, most people on the screen are deadpan - not that they are cold-blooded, or that they are not educated to understand such subtle and moving emotions, simply This thing is not at all in their emotional wavelength and thinking range. It's like taking a feather to tickle an elephant, as if forcing the audience to stare at the A-shaped cabbage shelf to think about the meaning of a happy family.
In recent years, the progress of Indian film is obvious to all. In addition to the continuous innovation in technology, the constant copycats in the script (…), the subject matter field of vision is also getting wider and wider. In the past, poor Indian people liked to watch beautiful men and women talk about love, dance and dance. They also knew that it was unrealistic, but that unrealistic can make them relax and have sex. The destination of their going to the cinema is to not think of the usual days. of suffering. Today, the Indian people are taking advantage of the spring breeze of reform and opening up, and they have achieved double-digit GDP growth. Sitting in the world office, they can not only rely on movies to comfort themselves, so they are willing to open their eyes and see the world around them. A little self-reflection, besides handsome men and women dancing and falling in love and how many shoddy action blockbusters, they want to watch something else. I think it was under this circumstance that "Guzaarish" was born: don't you want depth, don't you want sophistication, and I also have a pair of best actors and actresses here.
However, even if the Indian audience's tastes have changed and their horizons have broadened, they will only open their eyes to see the land under their feet: what can make them grit their teeth and buy sin with money can make them give away a night The good mood still resonates only with what they can see and hear: government corruption, partisan struggle, India-Pakistan issue, caste and religious conflict, college students committed suicide by exam-oriented education, farmers Throwing away the land blah blah blah. They started watching more "realistic" films simply because they were able to participate in the country's political process and reflection on social change in this way. In other words, if they have to go to the movie theater and cry, they must want to cry for themselves; if they have to give up entertainment to think, they must also want to think about the problems that happened to them. .
As for the film "Guzaarish", on the one hand, it is so hard and it doesn't make people relax at all. It does not force you to do esoteric thinking, but on the other hand, the content of its hard work has nothing to do with the participation of the people. It is thousands of miles away from the viewer's mind. How can you expect it to set off a wave in people's hearts and trigger their introspection to become a hot topic? Several paralyzed patients are unwilling to live any longer, hoping to end their own lives and raising this issue to a social topic, which is a typical European and American way of thinking; in India, even the noisy, absurd and shallow "Dream of Underworld Doctors" It is more topical than "Guzaarish", more concerned with what ordinary Indians are willing to pay attention to, and closer to their hearts.
Therefore, even if "Guzaarish" is deeply thoughtful and emotionally moving, it cannot move the audience or their wallets. This is a literati who has eaten a lot of Western food behind closed doors, just to entertain himself and discuss profound philosophical issues. People want to see things in movies that they want to do, but can't do; not things they can't even think of to care about. It's just a pity that Hrithik and Aish's perfect performances and perfect photography are just out of time.
PS: In fact, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali has always had such a problem of "drawing away from reality and only seeking beauty", Devads is a perfect myth of love, Black is a moving fairy tale (starting to get off the ground), "Love" has begun to be illusory to the point of being involved, this time He was even more concerned with blowing his own soap bubbles flying in the stratosphere.
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