Serfs stand up and become masters/the awakening and annihilation of humanity

Lucie 2021-12-27 08:01:59

It tells the story of Baram, a low-caste who got his wish and became a slave of the high-caste Ashok, but was unwilling to become a slave and turned over after killing his master.

As Baram said, India, as the world's largest democracy, the film model and the values ​​conveyed are more Westernized, and the gloom of human nature is incompatible with our truth, goodness and beauty.

Under the Indian caste system, the personality and dignity of a human being are clearly distinguished. Most people of lower castes, willing to be slaves without knowing it, think it is. Oppress each other in the same category, and the same is true for a family. Baram grew up in such an environment and witnessed his father being ransacked to death by his grandmother.

His dream is to become a servant of the rich, a dream from his heart. Until later, his dream came true. Taking care of his loyalty to his master was his entire job and his proud career.

But in fact, rich people don't take it seriously, except to use is to abandon. In particular, Ashok's father and elder brother showed this vividly and vividly.

Ashok and Peace Ji, who has American experience, are different from wealthy Indians who are already traditional in their thinking, but they cannot shake the foundation of tradition at all.

As Baram's wandering in the upper class deepens, his mindset of being a slave has changed. Ashok and Peace Ji's daily nurturing is one aspect, and the expansion of inner desire is more important.

In the end, he brutally killed Ashok, absconded with the money, became an entrepreneur, and completely bid farewell to his original life. His family also suffered a heavy price, and 17 members of the family were killed.

After becoming an entrepreneur, he changed his name to the owner Ashok and adopted some new ideas in business management. For example, they have the courage to take responsibility, get along with employees more fairly, and have changed a little bit, but in general it is still the old routine of capitalists.

The hustle and bustle is all for profit, and it tests humanity.

There are many golden sentences in the film. For example, there are many people whose minds of slavery have been infused into their blood and soul from birth; for the poor, breaking through the class means either committing a crime or entering politics; from the moment you recognize the beauty of this world, you will not Slaves again.

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  • Kaia 2022-04-22 07:01:40

    There are many interesting discussions in the film. For example, the good master who received Western education and emphasized equality everywhere was just a hypocritical high-class person at the critical moment. In contrast, the servant's "counter-attack" seems to be too taken for granted. The film spends 2/3 of the length to lay out the Indian society where the strong eat the weak, hoping to establish a solid reason for the turning point of the latter 1/3, but such a rough jungle The law happens to be a typical capitalist devour logic. A good man started from scratch, the poor turned over to be the master, no matter how many reversals create suspense, and the narration is laid out, in the end, there is a feeling of "show me this when you take off your pants".

  • Antonio 2022-03-27 09:01:13

    Slightly lower than expected, but Indian movies have been good in recent years.

The White Tiger quotes

  • Balram: The real nightmare is the other kind where you feel like you didn't do it, that you didn't kill your master, that you lost your nerve, and that you're still a servant to another man.

  • Balram: [narrating] I am not a politician. There are extraordinary men who can kill and move on.