Simplified Introduction to Indian Society and Family Background

Daniella 2022-04-11 09:01:07

In fact, the mother is the main line in this film, but it is not easy to understand the mother's background from the Indian background. As someone who has been to all countries in the South Asian continent except Bhutan, let me introduce the background that I know.

Many years ago, probably thousands of years ago, the ancestors of the Europeans, the Aryans, conquered northern India, bringing Sanskrit and Hinduism to enslave the black and black indigenous Dravidian people (of course there are many differences and The details, I understand are only approximate). Relying on these two things, the so-called "caste system" was established. In simple terms, this system is that people are divided into three, six, nine, the higher the white, the lower the black.

After a few hundred years, Islam gradually conquered the Western Regions and also spread to North India (my Tang Dynasty was still miserable) and then conquered North India. The hope of these low caste people turned to Islam, but in fact because of Deep-rooted class division This Islam has become a characteristic Islam of India when it arrives in India, and more or less still retains some of the original Hindu traditions, such as patriarchal. And then Islam itself doesn't pay much attention to women, especially Sunnis. Look at the sensitive words 1 and 2 in the Koran, ah bla bla, in short, it is very complicated. As a result, the status of Islamic women in the South Asian continent is particularly low, which is outrageously low. I think some places are more than the Middle East, especially in terms of life. For example, when I was invited to dinner in Pakistan, women were not allowed to serve the table, and even leftovers were not allowed to be served to them. Just look at the traditional Iranian family next door who asked me to have dinner together and take pictures. Considering that marrying a daughter is a "losing business" and divorce is a "shameful" thing, the family situation in this film is not difficult to understand.

It is probably a traditional Islamic family in North India. Women either refuse to give birth or get married at the age of 9-13. After 15, they will give birth to children in the dead to be housewives. run, so reading is a luxury. So it is not difficult to understand that the role of the mother in the film is a housewife who does not know the characters, because there is no economic power, no culture, or an ultra-conservative community wearing burka (if it is not for the burka, the conflict may not be so strong. Big), there are also introductions such as going to the mosque to make a vow, constantly reminding you that the heroine’s mother is an extremely conservative Muslim, so it is understandable that the mother did not want to divorce at the beginning. As for the father's random tantrums and beating the mother, it is no longer normal in the South Asian continent...

But obviously her mother also wanted her daughter to stop taking the same road because of her own experience (I guess), so she gave her as much as possible in reality since she was a child. The space for her daughter's "freedom", including "guaranteeing her ability to read", etc. But there is a saying that the more XX, the more anti-X, right, this is the reason for the conflict between father and daughter in the main film. In fact, in a sense, I also understand her father's temper. The Muslim conservative families I have come into contact with are really depressing. I feel depressed as an outsider. There are many children and there is only one financial support. , it's all made...

In the second half, her mother's transformation is because the heroine has played. After all, it is the 21st century, and the power of the times is slowly "eroding" these traditions. It is fatal for a certain XX to show his face, let alone doing this, no matter how open-minded the mother's decades of conservatives are, the heroine obviously does not play a big role in the teachings, so the first conflict is obvious. Then the mother's experience and the heroine entered the last low ebb when she learned about it. To put it bluntly, it is natural to understand each other.

However, the girl was nominated, and it is estimated that this was the last straw for her mother's transformation. On the one hand, this means that this road can be done (the combination of illiterate 1 girl and 2 young children or divorced people with no money is basically a dead end in India), and on the other hand, it proves that her daughter is really gifted, so if her father does not give it When she was "free", she finally rose up and finally contributed to the finale. I think the part of taking off the burka is really... beautiful, burka as a symbol itself is a symbol of suppressing women, and finally taking it off gorgeously to reveal the traditional Indian colorful costumes on the one hand, it makes a point, on the other hand, it expresses women through this behavior Liberation and awakening could not be better.

Although the speech at the end of the Great Reconciliation may seem clichéd, it is indeed very touching. The three views of the younger brother are so well taught by the mother, and the first love of the heroine interspersed... I think it will be seductive to change the little boy, but this kind of authenticity will be lost. Anyway, it's a good movie. I hope this simple background introduction can help you better understand why the heroine and her mother are the real heroine behind the scenes...

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