"Hot" tells the story of three women in an extremely poor village, just about their daily lives, but with a feminist mindset.
Rani is a 32-year-old single mother who has been widowed for 15 years. In order to get her son a wife, she paid 400,000 rupees to book a girl in the next village. The little daughter-in-law who passed by always seemed preoccupied with a sad face; there was also an unfamiliar man who often called and talked about ambiguous words, making him annoyed;
La Qiao seems to be lively and cheerful, and even dares to laugh at herself about the fact that she is infertile in public, but behind her back is a poor woman who longs for her child to be ill and abused by her husband all the year round;
Bieqi Li was involved in the wandering dance troupe and was the oiran in it. She earned income by dancing and even sleeping with her, but good flowers were not always in bloom and good times were not always there, and she would eventually be replaced by another young and obedient dancer.
India is a country with male superiority and female inferiority. Women must obey, respect, and humble themselves in front of men. You may not see it in Bollywood movies, but in the vast rural areas of India other than those big cities and aristocrats, men occupy all the dominant positions. Status is a matter of course.
Instead of changing the face of the impoverished village, they formed a male council to impose management constraints on the women in the village. Women are not allowed to wear jeans because it is immoral; they promote the idea that women will become bad women if they receive education; women are forced to use mobile phones but complain that they are too connected to the outside world; women are not allowed to watch TV, but men hang around every night. The wandering dance troupe took it for granted; forcibly sending back a daughter-in-law who had been abused in a neighboring village because she ran back to her mother’s house is a category of shame for the village; discriminated against outsiders, and regarded the family who took the foreign daughter-in-law as a family member. Shame; jointly suppress young couples who are willing to lead the whole village to become rich, and condone a bunch of young gangsters in the village to act recklessly.
When Rani's husband didn't go home at night, the mother-in-law said everything would be alright; when he took care of his mistress, the mother-in-law said everything would be alright; when he died in an accident, the mother-in-law cursed Rani before saying that everything would be alright of.
But nothing has changed.
Rani still lives in the shadow of her deceased husband and the family.
She wanted to live her life, but she could only live for her husband, her son, and her mother-in-law.
The most terrifying thing is that when the son's new daughter-in-law comes through, Rani treats her the same way her mother-in-law treated her back then.
Suspect, beware, control, and wrongly wrong the new daughter-in-law, but let the son who is wandering around every day, looking for fun and evil, let it go.
Laqiao is willing to accept new things, does a good job of handicraft, is generous and generous, and has all the characteristics of an independent and self-improving woman. But on the other hand, she is respectful and submissive to her husband who always abuses her. He goes to Rani's house silently every day to treat his wounds, and always worships her husband as a god.
I don't know that men can also be infertile, I think it's all my fault.
Encourage Rani to pursue happiness, but she has to stay by her husband who is always alcoholic.
Bikili indulges in the vanity brought by the identity of the oiran in the wandering dance troupe. But she was the most awakened of the three.
She doesn't put her hope of a better life on men; she uncovers Rani's self-deceiving life illusion, and makes Rani re-examine her relationship with her new daughter-in-law; she leads La Qiao to explore the truth of infertility, and makes La Qiao She regained her self-confidence; when the dance troupe boss deliberately neglected her and praised the newcomer, she relied on her own efforts to win it; when she found that the life in front of her was meaningless, she resolutely left.
What makes this film very gratifying is that people can see that flowers can bloom even in desperate situations.
Women who are shrouded in poverty and ignorance have the heart to resist, the good desire to feel love, and the courage to plan their own lives. Although they were almost assimilated to be like the rest of the village, they eventually woke up, no longer burdened by meaningless families, no longer regarded being dependent on men as truth, and no longer fantasized about relying on their looks to make a living.
So Lani fulfilled her daughter-in-law's freedom, La Qiao rebelled against her villainous husband, and Bickley left the Wandering Dance Company.
The three women flew into the distance with their yearning for a new life in the future.
Such a story is even more valuable because it takes place in India.
The era has come to the 21st century, and no one wants to be a vassal of others, and no one wants to waste their only life. Everyone is an individual with an independent will and has the right to choose the life style he aspires to. But in a huge world, there are still large parts of the world trying to suppress this kind of thinking, and even more so for women.
Suppresses their thoughts, stifles their freedom, imprisons their sexual needs. Inventing various rules and regulations to regulate them as men's vassals and foils, stifling their nature, preventing them from improving themselves, and making them believe that what they bear is for granted.
The so-called feminism is not that women want to replace men or step on men's heads, but that women can live out their gender values under their own will.
Being born as a woman is only a woman's physical structure, not by external things such as embroidery and weaving, pregnancy and childbirth, husband and child education, and three obedience and four virtues.
If she wants to work in a male-dominated industry or do what is socially recognized as male, she can do it; if she doesn't want to, she can refrain from doing it. When the environment in which she finds herself suppresses that freedom in every way, she can resist—that's their nature.
In "Hot", Lani, La Qiao, and Bi Qi Li also lived under the system established by the patriarchal society at first, but the desire for freedom overcomes this numbness. So wake up, so bravely escape, and regain the initiative in life.
This is some kind of appeal or appeal that an Indian film attempts to face the Indian environment. It no longer confuses all beings with gorgeous songs and dances, and no longer only focuses on the carefree living conditions of the wealthy and wealthy.
India has this kind of place and India needs this kind of change.
The saddest thing is a group of numb and ignorant people who know how unbearable and unbearable their situation is, and try to cut off hope for those who want to break out of this cage until those people become like themselves.
Peace of mind sinks into that desperate situation.
That village was such a village that, under the leadership of the council headed by the village chief, continued to be poor, ignorant, ignorant and numb. They finally forced away the young couple who represented civilization and industriousness, and Lani, La Qiao, and Bich Li also fled the village.
Poverty will remain poor, ignorance will remain ignorant, and ignorance will remain ignorant.
What they are guarding is a desperate village like backwater.
It is a village where arrogant and ignorant men and numb and ignorant women gather.
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