1. The themes involved in the movie look outdated. Feminism, the awakening and rise of women have been an old topic in the last century. But in India, such topics still need to be explored. Traditional culture is deeply ingrained and can be resolved by non-generations. Besides, the theme of the film is not only a topic of women, it has a more profound scope.
2. The aunt upstairs in the movie is a standard match for Indian women. She has no ego and lives only for men and family. Although she has never shown her face in the movie, she is smart and excellent, and can be said to be an encyclopedia of housewives. But there is no doubt that she is very sad. The man is a vegetable, paralyzed for many years, and lives on a rotating electric fan strangely, while she guards the living widow, guards the wife's way, and takes care of him. There is only one waste man in all her universe, and she takes care of him and that unreasonable electric fan illogically. This kind of absurd thing is an evaluation and requirement of women in Indian society.
3. The heroine is equally smart and clever, can read and write, and should be well educated. Under the guidance of the aunt upstairs, she is proficient in housework, obeys the woman's way, and believes in the traditional nonsense of grabbing a man's stomach even if it grabs a man's heart. But education made her a little different. She demanded more, didn't want such a life, and yearned for reciprocal feelings and complete self. The heroine belongs to a new generation of women who are slowly waking up.
4. The heroine's mother is taking care of the sick and dying father. This is a more traditional woman who has never had self and freedom in her entire life. Even under difficult conditions, she did not dare to ask her son-in-law to post money for treatment. She was ashamed of this. Tradition kept her mother deeply imprisoned, and she could not get out for the rest of her life. The hostess basically has no feelings for her father, feels pity for her mother, and is tired of this unequal relationship. The hostess has a lovely little daughter, and she doesn't want her daughter to repeat the same mistakes in the future.
5. If the movie talks about these things, it doesn't have much meaning. In fact, it has a deeper and broader meaning. In this world, no one can find freedom and self, regardless of men or women. You can also look at this movie from another angle, from the perspective of a man. The male protagonist has worked for an insurance company in Mumbai all his life and is about to retire. All his life has given time to work, step by step, meticulous, and busy. He is a dust in the universe, an inconspicuous little part of the city of Mumbai. Crowded in buses every day, doing mechanical and unenthusiastic work, indifferent colleagues, solemn and majestic leaders. I grew old in an instant, and the long twigs stood alone, and there was nothing left. He stood on the bus all his life, and after he died, he could only stand because he couldn't afford a larger cemetery. When I was 60 years old, I started to awaken, wanting to find time, freedom and self.
6. The lunch box is an opportunity. There is a small probability that an error event connects the two together. The housewife who longs to find freedom and self independently, and the cold male protagonist who is indifferent to the world also finds gentleness and sunshine in the city. In the end, the female took this step firmly, but the male protagonist flinched because he smelled the scent of old people on himself, and this retreat was deeply poetic. Perhaps it is the destruction of the city to people more than the destruction of the housewife by the family.
7. There is a temperature at the open end of the movie. My opinion is that no matter which train you get on, you will go to the wrong place, and you will not find paradise whether it is Bhutan or Nepal. Because no matter how we are, we will always be orphans in this beautiful world.
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