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Bartra was a particularly talented tailor who started out with his own boutique. He has a beautiful college-educated wife and a lovely daughter. His wife, Mita, because her husband was from a commoner, wanted her daughter Mia to be able to pass an aristocratic education and become a member of the upper class in the future. She was noble, elegant and outstanding, so she persuaded Batra to buy a house in a wealthy area and bring her with her. Batra tries to integrate into the upper class rich circle and begins to choose a school for Mia, wanting her to be friends with these children who can speak fluent English from an early age. But I didn't expect the kindergarten school to interview parents too (this is still the same as in some places in China). It's a pity that Batra was not well educated and was a tailor (it is estimated that her social status is low in India), and she was repeatedly rejected. Mia was also laughed at by other children because of her father's background, which made Mita more determined to squeeze her daughter into a noble school. determination. The admissions consultant, who was tormented by Batra, finally came up with a bad idea, asking the Batra family to pretend to be poor and defraud 25% of the poor student quota. The film begins to climax gradually from then on.
The film has a lot to remember and resonate with people.
#poor world parents heart#
The family did everything possible for Mia's education, buying a house, holding a party for the rich, spending a lot of money for consultation, enrolling in a tutoring class, and getting up in the early morning in a long line to receive forms. During these days, Mita, like mothers in China, exaggeratedly worried about her daughter's future---if you can't receive a good education, you can't enter the upper class, you can't have a good job, you can't have a good job Sad and disappointed and even degenerate, degenerate "will go to drug use". So no matter what, she couldn't let this happen. In order to pass the school's home visit assessment, the family lived in a "terrible" slum. When sleeping at night, the couple huddled together on a palm-sized place on the ground, the mouse crawled over Mita's legs, there was no water after using the toilet, the deadly mosquitoes that flew over the Shiam's house, and the deadly word of mouth from the poor and fellow villagers. Infectious diseases, all these, except for the first few days, which brought Mita to tears, did not scare the Mittas away. Like a warrior, for Mia's courage to go to law school, people can't help but think of the parents of the current dynasty---Which one is not like this on the battlefield of Xiaoshengchu and Xiaoshengchu?
Regardless of whether it is China or India, due to the relative scarcity of excellent educational resources and the problem of unfair distribution, parents are always willing to give their children everything they can to change their destiny, even if they sacrifice themselves. So did the rich Batra family, and so did the slum-hearted Shyam. It has nothing to do with how much money you have, it has to do with the nature of your parents.
#kindness is always human nature#
The film is much more than just a story about a school choice. When the Batra family first arrived in the slum, they were also ostracized by poor fellow villagers because they disliked the locals. At this time, the warmhearted Shiam appeared. First, it solved the urgent need for Batra to go to the toilet without water, and then solved the crisis when the Batra family showed their feet in front of the visiting teacher at home. Shyam is a simple and kind-hearted poor man. In fact, when the home visiting teacher saw the mineral water, coke and pizza in Batra's house, the discerning person knew at a glance that the Batra family must be a rich man who cheated on the quota, but the kind-hearted Shiam didn't think so, he was naive To explain what happened from another angle: The Batra family must be a wealthy man who has just gone bankrupt, and it must take time to adjust to a frugal life. He didn't think about it if the Batra family was a fraud, then his son's chance to go to a prestigious school might be taken away by Mia.
In order to help Bartra and Mia live, Shiam took Bartra to work in the biscuit factory, and gave half of his meager salary to Bartra, who was deducted from his salary by the boss because he couldn't do the job. In that sentence, men need to bring money when they go home, and you can see how kind and considerate Shyam is—men in the slums know well that life is not easy, and even more so that men are not easy. In "Youth", it is said that a person who has never been treated kindly can best recognize kindness and cherish kindness the most.
The second visit of the home visiting teacher saw Batra's changes and passed Mia's home inspection. In order not to make the neighbors suspicious, Batra secretly went to the ATM to withdraw 24,000 rupees of tuition fees at night. Unexpectedly, Shiam, who was passing by, saw that Batra had no way to rob the bank. Towed in front of the machine.
It is not an exaggeration to describe this simple and foolish Shiam with self-denial. He said to Batra, you can't do that, you'll go to jail, then walk to the side of the road and "bang" a car into the air. Bartra, who didn't understand, looked at Shyam whose arms were covered in blood, and wanted to take the perpetrator to the police station on the spot. He never thought that Shyam deliberately wanted to "touch porcelain" to help him, so Shyam took it from the car owner. The 23,000 rupees were stolen, and then he rounded up 24,000 rupees with his own money in the hospital and gave it to Batra.
It's hard not to be moved in the current situation, even though everyone knows that in the current society, the chance of such a scene being staged is almost equivalent to a fairy tale appearing in reality. In Shiam's view, since he lives in the slum together, since his son is not lucky, Mia, who is also a child of the slum, has been selected, and she must help her. It can only be said that he knows too much what education means to these poor children. In this sense, Shyam is not stupid, he is not a narrow-minded person, he treats Mia as his child, if you are well, it is sunny, so if you feel that you can help when necessary, you must help .
Did we notice a detail, when Shyam's son was not selected to exit the hall in the final draw, in order to comfort the child and congratulate Mia, he invited Mia's family to the house for a party, when he was counting his hands How much money was left on the phone, and then I took some from my wife. In his eyes, the amount of money left over may not really be important. The most important thing is to comfort the child and make the child happy. He said to his son, it's not that you are not good, it's not that you missed this school, it's this school that missed you. So simple, so kind.
Shyam's wife, Suhira, is also a kind person, bringing Mita to carry water, buy rice, and teach her to stand up for her rights. Poverty did not overshadow the radiance of humanity in them.
Human nature is good. Shyam helped again and again, leaving Batra with a lot of guilt. He chose to fund all the children in a public school, and it was a make-up and a good deed. In the end, when Shiam chose to give up reporting on Batra, his conscience was touched again, and he decided to let his daughter give up the school and give the place to Shiam's son.
Batra is also kind and brave. After he found out that the principal and those corrupt officials were the same breed, he boldly exposed the scandalous behavior of the principal and the officials on stage, and called out to give impoverished children an equal opportunity to be taught. Mita eventually understood and supported her husband's decision. At the scene where other parents didn't dare to say a word after listening to Batra's speech, you know that kindness and courage are precious.
The director is kind, and he should know that in today's India, the possibility of such a plot reversal is very small, but here, he uses this film to call for equal rights to education, and he is kind.
#Being a good person is more important than anything#
In one of Batra's final words to persuade his wife, he said, I don't care about what kind of school my children go to. I hope what I do today can help children understand that being a good person is more important than anything else.
Of course, Bartra knew that giving up the grammar school he had won with great difficulty would have a major impact on his children's studies, but in his view, honesty, not hurting others for one's own interests, not submissive, being true to yourself, and sharing is love. Quality trumps scores and the so-called upper class.
The society in transition is always full of all kinds of impetuousness. The amount of money becomes the yardstick to measure the success of a person, and the level of achievement becomes the standard for evaluating whether a child is excellent. At the moment when everyone is crazy about it, how many people still have hearts like lotus flowers, who don’t care about poverty or wealth, teach children to be kind and pure, teach children that sharing is love, teach children not to be utilitarian, and teach children to look at flowers Ye see the world?
Shyam is a good man, as is her wife Suhira, and blessed are their sons. Although they have no money, their kindness will bless them for a lifetime, so they can live calmly and happily, and there will always be sunshine in their world.
Batra is a good man. In his life, he loves Mita deeply. When there is a disagreement with Mita, he accommodates Mita. He is a good husband; he is a good father. For Mia's schooling, he also racks his brains. , using the power of the wild; he used his actions to tell people that the poor should also have equal rights to be taught, and he used his actions to tell Mia that sharing is love. I don't know if Mia will learn something in the future, but what her parents taught her will definitely benefit her for life.
Being a good person will not bring you money and glory, but being a good person will make you rich and full without fear of catastrophe.
#The poor are always in a weak position#
Hope is always good. But we also have to face the reality, in this movie, we can also see that the poor are always in a disadvantaged position. Although the state requires each school to allocate 25% of its enrollment to extremely poor students, in fact, the privileged and the wealthy can always use their connections and money to grab the greatest rights and interests.
When Batra went to the principal to confess the fact of cheating "tragically", the principal, who was born in a poor student, just lightly asked his subordinates to move Mia's name to an ordinary fee-paying student instead of expelling, when we thought it was right This kind of candid reward, when the principal told the truth, she wanted the money. So if Shyam does find the principal, will the ending really be reversed?
Batra could not go to the headmaster at all (although the result is the same), in that case, the children of poor children like Shiam's son would have no chance at all. In fact, how many people would sacrifice their rights to help poor children in the face of huge interests like Batra? How many people in the end will anonymously fund all the children in a public school like Batra? Batra's final speech was very moving, but how many people here dared to stand up with him? They are clear about how big the stakes are here. Isn't the benefit of poor people like Shiam not sacrificed here?
As the poor people at the bottom of the society, it is really too difficult to change their destiny, so they pin their hopes on education. So you have to understand that Shyam chose to deliberately hit a car in order to help Batara, and later found out that Batra was angry and wanted to report the behavior of defrauding the quota. Such struggles are sometimes helpless and tragic.
"The same blue sky, the same dream" is always a long way to go.
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