Speaking of the movie, there are many places where the military regulations are put to sleep. The title of 21st Century Fox makes military regulations think that this is an American movie, but the music is cheerful, the action is frivolous, the picture is jumpy, and the manager's judgment is not bad. This is a Bollywood blockbuster, and the location was in San Francisco, USA. That's it.
The film tells the bitter journey of an American Muslim petitioner.
The protagonist Khan, a Muslim born in India, suffered from Asperger syndrome since childhood, which is a branch of autism with clinical manifestations of social impairment and mechanical rigidity. Actor Shahrukh Khan performed Asperger's Syndrome quite vividly in the film (whether it's accurate or not, it's not unreasonable to judge).
Khan is a Muslim, and the Indian society he lived in as a child was full of conflicts between Muslims and Hindus. Khan's mother is a great mother, she instilled the correct outlook on life and values in Khan, the essence of which is about religious conflict: There are only two kinds of people in the world - good and bad. Good or bad is what distinguishes people, not Muslims or Hindus. The mother is also looking for the best local teachers to educate Khan, and Khan received a good primary education in his hometown as a child.
After his mother died, Khan, who was unable to take care of himself, defected to his younger brother in San Francisco. With the help of his younger brother, Khan found a job pushing cosmetics. Despite his limited social skills, Khan excels at work with his vast knowledge (amazing memory). During a product promotion, Khan met Mandira, who worked in a hair salon. Mandira is a single mother who had an unhappy marriage (parental arrangement) in her native India and a son after immigrating to San Francisco with her ex-husband. The ex-husband left without saying goodbye a few years ago, leaving Mandira to raise their young son Sam on her own.
When they first met Khan, he was moved by Mandira's kindness and beauty, and he started a crazy and enthusiastic pursuit since then. In the Indian film and television drama, this romantic process is expressed through its iconic song and dance and picture flashes. In short, the Hindu Mandira accepted the pursuit of the Muslim Khan, married him, and his son Sam also changed his surname to Khan, a typical Muslim name.
9/11 completely changed the lives of Muslims in America. As the movie says, in the Western era, which was divided into BC and AC according to the nativity, now 9/11 becomes the second node to divide the era. After 9/11, a large-scale anti-Muslim movement was launched in Western (American) society, which affected both the official and the public, and the normal life of Muslims in the United States was greatly affected.
On the streets, Christians insulted Muslims; Muslim-run shops were vandalized by angry crowds; white students bullied Muslim classmates, stuffing their lockers with brochures with photos of bin Laden. Life is tough for adult Muslims, and Sam's life at school is even more difficult after changing his surname. When his friend Reese's father was killed in Iraq, Reese turned the loss of his father into hatred for Sam, who had a Muslim surname. Sam cherished his friendship with Reese, and the argument with Reese on the playground attracted other white classmates to watch, a few words of discord, and these white classmates beat Sam to death.
Desperate and helpless, Mandira, who has lost her beloved son, tries to find the murderer by herself. She takes her anger out on Khan, the disaster that Khan's Muslim surname has brought to Sam! Mandira can't change American society, which is full of prejudice against Muslims, she can only blame Khan. The helplessness of little people. Mandira asked Khan in bitter swearing: Can you tell the President of the United States that you are not a terrorist?
Khan has since started the journey of petitioning to the President of the United States. Holding a big pumpkin, eating and sleeping in the open; crazy, stubborn and firm.
During this journey, he was interrogated by the police at the airport, met with Muslim radicals at the mosque, and met a simple black old woman in Georgia. After the FBI learned that Khan had followed the president's whereabouts, it suspected that he was planning to attack terrorists and put Khan in a federal prison. After media reports, Khan provided information on Islamic militants and other information to the public. Under pressure from public opinion, the FBI released Khan.
The hurricane hit Georgia, where the simple old lady is located. Khan went to the disaster area alone to support, and the incident moved the media again. The newly-appointed President of Austria and Black also visited the disaster area and met Khan in public. Khan told him in front of the president: My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist.
The story is over.
Quranic quotes are quoted in the film: The death of one innocent person is equivalent to the death of the entire human race. Innocents, including the 2,977 civilians killed on 9/11 (excluding 19 hijackers), Sam in the film, and other civilians killed in the anti-Muslim movement. Separated by hate, hugged by love. Terrorists use terrorist attacks to create confrontation between people of different religious beliefs to achieve their goal of dividing communities. For this point, the film puts forward an important criterion at the beginning: the difference between people is only good and bad, not religion. The cognition of the essence of others cannot be changed because of their religious attributes or nationality attributes. Similar to the treatment of Japanese-Americans in the United States during World War II, it has become a profound historical lesson.
In the movie, instead of judging the more mature and wise younger brother from secular standards, it is Khan, who suffers from autism and has difficulty in action, who has completed a Muslim's "self-salvation" in American society: self-innocent under the general prejudice of society . The way to meet the president is to dramatize and simplify the problem in film and television productions. It is a long way to go to truly change people's perceptions. After all, religion has a profound impact on people's worldview, and all human behavior is under the great influence of worldview.
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