The Bollywood movie "My Name Is Han" produced after 9/11, stated that the American Muslims' encounters in the environment of Islamophobia should have merits. It is a pity that the Bollywood hit movie "Proof of Love" "(Kuch Kuch Hota Hai) director Karan Johar used Bollywood's dramatic and sensational way to pile up the illusory "American Dream" as a cover for selling money. The Bollywood director took the opportunity of Muslims to be discriminated and suppressed, packaged it up to make a lot of money, and the British director Danny Boll turned the picture of Mumbai slum life into a "slum millionaire" that was sold for entertainment consumption. Wonderful.
The issues dealt with in the film "My Name Is Rare" are extremely serious and heavy socio-political issues, and try to make a humanitarian response to racial and religious discrimination and labels. It’s not a problem to present this heavy subject in a relaxed way. Unfortunately, the film’s director is not trying to highlight the key to these problems, but to dilute or even bury the root cause of the problem with the fairy tale narrative and happy ending. The key contradiction is reduced to a tribute succumbing to the establishment and prostitution.
The attack on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001 allowed the United States to find an excuse to defend its imperialist expansion ambitions and to use terrorist attacks to extinguish dissent against U.S. imperialism at home and abroad. The conservative right forces even furthered the Muslim community. The group demonized into terrible imaginary enemies, inciting sentiments of hatred of immigrants, diverting people’s attention, and framing the terrorism derived from the brutal force of U.S. imperialism to Muslims all over the world, thereby bringing harm to the Muslim communities in European and American countries. Great impact.
After 9/11, American imperialism launched overwhelming media propaganda to create collective panic in the society to pave the way for its global anti-terrorist "jihad". "New McCarthyism" came into being after 9/11, with the purpose of creating a global reactionary "sacred alliance", in the name of "homeland security" and "war on terror", to demonize any voice of dissent against the hegemony of capital. . Invading Afghanistan is the first move, then searching for (but never found) "weapons of mass destruction" in the name of capturing Iraq and targeting Iran as the next target of the "war on terror."
In the name of security, the US government restricts the basic freedoms of American citizens and monitors people’s communications. It is not surprising that those who look like Arabs or publicly criticize the policies of the US government are being monitored by the government as suspects. The US government even advocates for everyone to act as police informants, accusing anyone with "suspicious whereabouts". The protagonist of "My Name Is Han", in the end, in order to be a "good guy" and an informant for the U.S. government, reporting the so-called "bad guys" completely exposed that the theme of the film is not at all criticizing the US imperial system that breeds terrorism. It is the rhetoric of the vassal in the capital ruling class to rationalize aggression and atrocities and suppress civil liberties.
"My Name is Rare" successfully put the "American Dream" imposed on the world by the imperialist establishment, and the sensationalism of the heroism in Bollywood was packaged into a "innocent" fairy tale. The film seems to describe the facts, but it is quite far from the terrible facts, let alone to explore the root of the problems behind the social reality. In the end, the film only uses vain and ethereal "love" to downplay the social contradictions caused by global capital and imperialist rule, and artificially beautify the way to harmonize the ruling class's exploitation and oppression of the ruled class.
The class contradictions underlying racial and religious discrimination, and the political and economic incentives that cause Islamophobia, are certainly not Hollywood, which blindly sensationalizes for huge profits, or Bollywood "big directors" or producers who care about and hope to adopt film works Information expressed. As a Hollywoodized Bollywood movie, "My Name Is Rare" replicates the prescriptions of mainstream entertainment media to let people fall asleep, turning the audience into a "love" that advocates individualism, class harmony, hypocrisy, and compromises with the establishment. A mental addict who is addicted to "sniffing" consumer entertainment products. About 160 years ago, Marx said that “religion is the people’s opium.” In today’s highly developed capitalist society, Hollywood-style movies are the people’s opium in the world today, and "My Name is Rare" may be a heavier dose. Of that kind.
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