The title of the movie was translated as "Life and Death", and I thought it was an interpretation of the deepness of life and death, like "The Love of Human Ghosts". I didn't dare to watch it on the first day after downloading it, for fear that it would be too sad. Then I watched it the next day, only to find that it was not what I imagined at all. At the end of the film, outsiders and audiences such as me, have not yet stepped out of the shadow of the death of the dead, and the protagonists have embarked on a new journey of love. So much so that this ending made me uncomfortable and felt too fast.
Actually, is this really fast? Maybe it's just that the rhythm in my heart is too slow - I long for a long stream of water, I look forward to a long time, I can't get out of a broken bosom, I often bury in the old thoughts and unforgettable... So, with this kind of Faced with this Indian movie, I couldn't help but feel a little dazed for a while: even if you go, do you just come here without any obstacles?
Therefore, watching this film quietly and gradually understanding it is also a harvest for me watching the film and my own life course.
When premarital sex is a taboo, the heroine Devi opens a room with her little boyfriend. Under the police raids, insults and threats, and the oppression of calling his father, the little boyfriend cuts his wrists in a hurry. Death may be just commonplace for the police, their "aftermath" is actually to extort Devi's father - 300,000 rupees, which is undoubtedly an exorbitant price for the Devi family. My father almost collapsed, but Devi always maintained a sober dissociation, and that calm even made me outside the screen feel a sense of hatred for no reason. I am still myself. Thinking about it now, for Devi, that emotion is not a kind of strength in repression. It seems that only repression can make him strong and not fall into this puzzle of pain, regret, hatred, and resentment; and for me, Why is it not because he is suffering from the so-called "involvement", his heart is full of grievances but there is nowhere to complain, so he can't help but feel angry.
When the caste rank is still the shackles of Indian society, the actor Deepak, the lower class under this caste system, was originally not qualified to fall in love with the upper class girlfriend Manu. However, the intimacy of facebook online communication, the pure smile of the budding first love offline, and the turbulent youth made them let go of class differences and want to be together. In the face of possible obstacles, Manu said, I am willing to elope with you. This sentence is like a throbbing flame, igniting light, beauty and hope, but soon turned to ashes with the rollover accident on the pilgrimage of Manu. Deepak took off the ring on Manu's hand and burned his girlfriend's body himself. I used to think that time would stop at that moment - at that moment, all thoughts were lost.
"Death and life are bound together, talk with Zicheng; hold the hand of the son, grow old together with the son", this is the meaning of the ancient Chinese "Book of Songs". India, which also has an ancient civilization, also believes in the impermanence of life and death, and there is a reason for gathering and dispersing. The source of the ever-flowing Ganges River is just like in the previous life, carrying life and death, facing reincarnation, reluctant to give up day and night. Manu's ring is the gold thread of the whole plot, picked up by the little boy while diving, thus sewing up the financial break that Devi cannot repay, and making the two story lines merge into one.
Two young people meet, because they are young, they have endless new beginnings and possibilities; even if they are no longer young, the future is always ahead, and there is no need to be too persistent. And softly bless this pair of people who were reborn after the disaster, and set foot on their common ferry with this ferry ticket... (Qing Qingfeng February 21, 2017)
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