In the 3-hour Indian movie "Rang De Basanti", about 2 hours, I even figured out how to rate and tag this film: 6 points, Indian Patriotism Movies. At that time, my patience was eroded by the endless singing and dancing and the slow and boring-like storytelling - during which I went to pour two glasses of water, made a cup of black sesame paste, and ate a hot pot.
When the patience came back again, the five young people led the crowd to the square to mourn the Air Force Colonel. The director's almost wordy narration and slow scene switching suddenly changed at this time. I thought the director would promise a beautiful and happy ending for the film: let Sue, who can't dance, make a patriotic movie in singing and dancing India, and then make a splash, and so on. But it's not conventional. What the director really wants to tell is not how Sue made movies for the former Indian revolutionaries. What the director wants to tell is: how the unarmed people in India go patriotic.
Unarmed people, in the square, mourned the pilots and soldiers whose fighter jets were too old and lost. They were outraged by the ridiculous and outrageous lies of the officials and observed a moment of silence for the fallen soldiers. But that's all they do: go to the square and light the candles. And before, some of them said: Corruption is in our DNA, and this country has no future. Unexpectedly (or they had expected it), they were dispersed and beaten by the military police. Seeking a truth, this is the answer they get.
Of course, the answer they got was bloody and absurd: they shot a lied and greedy official who was hailed as a martyr after his death. They tried to use blood to impact the decaying system, as if five bloody and scarred Don Quixotes were standing in front of the windmill, full of absurdity and powerlessness.
In the end, all that was left were these 5 unarmed young students. They did not have a long and meticulous revolutionary plan, the director just arranged a radio station for them to transmit their dialogue with ordinary people. This fairytale-like design is telling the movie audience how the defenseless should go to their decaying country. They took responsibility for their crimes but were shot and killed by heavily armed military police without any trial. Seeing this, I originally thought that the director would make the silent masses rise up and smash the government door. But the director just gave a few shots, expressed the voice of the onlookers, and then began to give subtitles.
There is no incitement or sensationalism, the director just tells you that as unarmed people, love this nation of India with a rotten system, they have clear and clean beliefs (don't forget that India has Gandhi), and their courage is stronger than sharp knives Sharp. The director also said that if you want to change the country, you have to go into its political system, the army, the government, and change it, not complain.
Of course, the director is Indian, and it is impossible for him to answer a question like: How to keep your pure heart in a muddy environment? If I had to answer, I guess he said this: We have faith. At this time, I felt that this Indian movie was simply mocking us nakedly and ruthlessly.
But tell me, what's the difference between a country that shoots unarmed students and its previous invaders? A country's rotten system, what need to pay for it? Why do you love such a country, Indian boy?
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