Irrfan Khan in 2013's "Lunchbox" is much older than in 2017's "Starting Line", and his actions are much slower, and the actor's skill is average. Not to mention the comparison of the two, there is a big difference. The former is a rare introspective film that is not interspersed with songs and dances in Indian films. It also allows our audience to re-understand a different kind of India.
Crowded and dirty is our impression of India. The film does not evade it. Khan squeezes the train to work every day and eats the lunch ordered from the small restaurant at noon. Life and work are like dead wood. The heroine is a husband and a child, and cooks lunch carefully for her husband every day. There is a saying that grabbing a man's stomach will grab a man's heart. Coincidentally, it is said that the Indian-style food delivery system that Harvard has come to study, and that it will never be wrong, also made a mistake. I forgot who also stuffed the note in the lunch box, it seemed to be a woman. Because she knew from her husband's words that he ate differently from what she cooked.
Two people who have never met and poor students, at the moment when communication is so convenient, the lunch box acts as a medium to pass messages between them, one is a widower, and the other is a woman whose husband is having an affair and wants to divorce. Their common wish is to run away and escape this suffocating and familiar living environment. In fact, everyone has such an idea, so the female teacher wrote a resignation letter: The world is so big, I want to go out for a walk. We will be tired of our monotonous and repetitive life. There is no escape. We still need to adjust our mentality and find the extraordinary and the meaning of life in the ordinary.
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