When it comes to India, an eastern country, most people add a few labels to it: Asia's second largest country, highly densely populated, crowded to the top of a train, slums, too big a gap between rich and poor, birthplace of Buddhism, and other socio-political issues and religious beliefs. As a country in the East, India and China have many similarities in history, such as having been colonized, both developing countries, facing similar acute social problems: unemployment, unemployment leading to disorder, backward education systems, and outdated concepts of marriage. These practical problems that plague thousands of people and hinder the overall development of the country often become the source of indian films, on the one hand, creating familiar topics, easy to be understood and accepted by the audience, on the other hand, to a certain extent, enlightening the audience, transmitting the correct three views and positive energy, hoping to achieve the effect of internalization into thought and externalization into behavior, which is conducive to social and personal development.
Of course, this is all an in-depth analysis of Indian cinema, to find out its strengths in winning the history of world cinema and surpassing other national films in some aspects. Always using hot topics, coupled with Indian characteristic song and dance music, costumes, and beautiful scene changes, it deeply attracts the world's film fans.
"Dad 102", which will be released on November 30 soon, has not been screened first, and the three issues of "pension problems, old age life, and father-son relationship in the family" have always been hot topics. The director cleverly selected the key point of the three generations in the same room, and used the inherent personality of the characters in the traditional concept to form a sharp contrast with the character setting of the film, subverting the public's concept. The 102-year-old father Dartley and the 75-year-old son Babu are also white-haired old people, both of whom are fathers with children under their knees, and the end of life and the fear of aging seem to have become the established facts that two people fear together. But the reversal showed the good mentality and attitude of the old father, which was the opposite of his son's frustrated and uninterested way of dealing with life.
Some of the clips in the film imply cold real social problems, and when Babu's son hears that his old father is critically ill, he reacts coldly as a son of man. When discussing the division of the inheritance, at the expense of flying back from other places, the contrast of attitude reflects the relationship between father and son as light as water, and the cold and heartless son and the disappointed and cold father become the heart and trigger point of the screen, triggering the audience's deep thinking.
Overall, the film is mainly in a comedic style, through touching language, sudden events, great contrasts between character image and personality, especially when the old Dartley wants to send the old Babu to the nursing home to "transform" the idea, otherwise he must listen to his father's words and accept the change, which makes people feel novel. Presumably, most viewers can't imagine: two white-haired fathers and sons playing together, enjoying perhaps the last joy and freedom of life, and tasting the real meaning of living: living for themselves, not just working for their children for a lifetime, old age and loneliness, mentality and age are irrelevant, it all depends on how you live, not how you think.
Also subverting the three views is That Dartley asks Bab to recognize the "true face" of his child, "What is he trying to do?" He wants your money", this sentence was initially seen by The Babu as the fuse that provoked the dissension between father and son, and through various indications, he made a mistake, and it is undoubtedly not correct to understand the old father's insistence on the attitude of life.
It is necessary for the audience to reconsider the parent-child relationship between the fathers and the three generations, and the entanglement and connection between the blood relationship and the individual's life have become the problems to be solved. Fortunately, the film gives us a better interpretation, the traditional oriental father-son relationship is often strict and indifferent, invisible estrangement hinders the expression of true feelings, communication, listening to each other's voices seem impossible, but this Indian film becomes impossible, the ending ends with the warm reconciliation of father and son, parents see children are always children, life should always maintain a positive attitude, these truths are worth learning from the audience!