point of view and laughter is how the rich pretend to be poor, which can make you laugh with gusto, but all this is just an appearance, its sea The iceberg beneath the plane is what the production team wanted to reveal.
First, the solidification of class is evident from education. In India, English is not only a language, but also a class, and the best way to become this class is to go to a good school. The starting line starts from kindergarten, and some people start from prenatal education. But good schools are not public schools (in India, private schools have better teachers than public schools), and wealthy and literate families can successfully send their children to private kindergartens. Most of the poor can only go to the public. Even if there is a poverty indicator to go to a private school, they only insist on dropping out after a month or two, because they cannot afford expensive extracurricular activities. Note that tuition is waived, but extracurricular activities are unavoidable. While the circles between adults depend on which school a child is in, the idea that education changes class is deeply ingrained.
Second, the hypocrisy of private schools. Showing unceremonious refusal to related households and money-giving households on the surface, shutting out the children of the upstarts, taking care of the poor to a certain extent, etc., in fact, it just turns the upstarts into more covert bribery, If you go to the principal with a bag of money, you will be kicked out, but the guy who sells milk tea at the school gate has a way to give the money to relevant people and open up relevant channels.
3. The poor will only be more ruthless than the rich once they break away from their original stratum. The representative is the principal of a private school. She is the child of a maid. She was isolated by her classmates in private schools since she was a child. However, when she became the principal of a private school, she found that everything was reversed. Her classmates had to go to a private school when they had children, and everyone came to beg her, so she controlled everything with the thrill of revenge. Hate the rich and love the rich because only the rich can benefit her. As for the poor, even if their due rights are violated, even if she only needs to say a word, she will not help, because the poor are of no use to her at all.
4. Indifferent elites and enthusiastic poor people, there are many elite characters flashed in the whole film. They are like those exquisite egoists around us, who have restrained contacts, and inadvertently reveal a sense of class superiority. And the poor, what? I don't have any, but I am so enthusiastic that I don't even want to die, just to help my friends' children raise school fees.
Fifth, the living conditions of the poor are worrying. There is a huge gap between the rich and the poor in India, and the poor are prone to illness and death. The neighbors they met when the protagonist's family moved to the slums, their inquiries were warm but cold. Suffered from XX disease and died. Through the life of the protagonist's family in the slums, the astonishing differences between the rich and the poor are even more highlighted. Even the poor themselves say: As poor people, we can only not be happy with things and not be sad about ourselves.
6. Public schools have reached the point where they have to be rectified. In a public school, students can only sit on the floor and read books without a stool. The environment is in tatters, and the toilets are unbearable to walk in. From the perspective of Chinese people's habitual thinking, this is inconceivable.
The film is about India, but it may be China in the near future. Regarding the issue of education changing class, the earliest suggestion in China is that education changes destiny. At that time, class was not too obvious. There was a tweet that let children receive a good education. It is to allow children to have more choices when they grow up, do what they like, and cause many parents to forward it. If everyone thinks this way, then the class can go to hell.
Of course, some Chinese people think that being rich means climbing a certain class, but in fact, more and more rich people are influenced by Westerners. They find the difference between new money and old money. How to successfully disguise new money as old money? It is the most urgent thing for the class to do. When they succeed in disguise, the class will be solidified.
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