Just a few days ago, there was another Hindu god to finalize!
The title is Toilet: A Love Story aka Toilet Hero.
I don't know if you feel familiar when you see this male lead, yes, he is the spoiled wife demon Akshe Kumar
Two days ago, Xiaobian analyzed an Indian movie "Pad Man", presumably everyone still has an impression, the last time was "aunt towel", this time it is a toilet?
How could a movie about a toilet be made for 150 minutes?
A: Yes!
Do you think this landscape is rare?
Wrong, in most of the rural areas of India this is a very normal phenomenon, with the sky as the grass, the ground as a pit, fields, corners, streets and alleys everywhere.
It's okay for men to do that, but what about women? Isn't it hard to get on the street in broad daylight?
Of course not, they can only "follow the organization" to the field at 4 a.m. every day.
Of course not all women are willing to do this, so our male god Akshe Kumar discovered this kind of thing.
Made a movie called "Toilet Hero" is not much to say, preview is fast.
After the release of "Toilet Hero" in India, it performed very well at the box office, earning Rs 10 billion in just 2 weeks of release in India.
Converted into RMB is 1 billion yuan! The total box office is as high as 20 billion rubles (2 billion yuan), according to the word of mouth and box office of the film, it is likely to become another box office dark horse after "Wrestling Daddy"!
Plot Breakdown: (Spoilers)
At the beginning of the picture, the male protagonist Keshav (hereinafter referred to as Xiao Kai) leads a buffalo, but he is called a sister-in-law!
what？ How did it become a sister-in-law, Xiao Kai's father was a devout believer, he was convinced that only buffalo could drink his life, and if a woman with two thumbs appeared!
That's The Goddess of Xiao Kai!
I honestly tell you one thing, from the day I saw you, I decided to resist the whole world for you, no girl can stand such a sweet word!
Even the bunny has been picked up, well, love you and I'll marry you!
On the wedding night, there is an uninvited guest knocking on the door, who?
It's 4:15 a.m. Everyone is eagerly looking forward to your participation in our women's federation, and I know from the mouths of the girls that it was convenient to go out collectively!!
What, I thought of everything, I just didn't think there was no toilet at home!
The wife immediately woke up Xiao Kai, what about the toilet at home?
Xiao Kai: There was no toilet at home. The wife said a word, and Xiao Kai was immediately confused.
If I had known, I wouldn't have married you!
Please let me turn 100 laps in place first, but who let the male protagonist be a wife protector? I'll fix it for you.
When Xiao Kai asked about the pious father, his father said: When I was eating, I couldn't swallow a mouthful of the toilet, and I went on hunger strike for several days!
Well, Dad's road doesn't work, then I'll change the road, Xiao Kai brought his wife to Xiao Kai's grandmother's house, why?
Because Grandma's house has a toilet, but my wife is unwilling.
I'm like a thief if you get to the bathroom, and this method doesn't work, so let's change it.
Because the village will have a train passing by every day and will stop for 7 minutes, these 7 minutes, become the wife's daily mobile toilet.
But you can't do every day without mistakes, once the wife was blocked by the overwhelming luggage on the train, and when the door was opened, the train also opened
Well, this method doesn't work either, I can always move the toilet to the house!
The little rabbit wants to say that the idea is still very good, but before his wife can use the "mobile toilet" our Xiao Kai has already eaten a lawsuit.
Because... The toilet was stolen from the set where the movie was made, and this time the wife was really angry.
You are all expedient, and you can't solve my problem at all!
Above we said that the male protagonist strongly supports his wife, but how many people oppose it?
My father was the first to stand up against it, and he would tarnish my religious beliefs.
Grandma Xiao Kai even ran to her own family's house, saying that it was very wrong for the heroine to do this, and also showed that the woman had always compromised.
At the time of the village meeting, a man even stood up and said: If we build a bathroom in our home, it will not be dirty in our home;
what？ How did it get dirty? Isn't it dirty in the streets and alleys, all over the place?
In fact, "clean" India also has a special explanation, in India to enter the temple even shoes are not allowed to wear.
Not to mention that the "smelly excrement" seems reasonable according to their thinking.
The most important thing is that they themselves have taken the convenience of the wild as a "serious thing" If the heroine bothers to think about changing a thing, and the last beneficiary is to stop it, what is the point?
The man found the local official but the local official said that the government had already installed the sewer line, but you turned it off yourself, which means that you will not go to the government to build a toilet.
"Toilet Hero" is adapted from a real person and a real thing, which really feels strange.
In 2012, Indian bride Anita Nari couldn't stand the pain of going to the toilet outdoors, and fled back to her mother's house on the fourth day of her marriage, saying, "If you don't have a separate toilet, you won't go home." ”
A social charity built a toilet for this purpose, and the two children were reunited. But not all women are as lucky as Anita Nari
The film set off a vigorous "toilet movement" in India, and the high degree of spread made the call for "want to marry a wife to build a toilet first" spread to every isolated small village, before the lack of sanitary equipment caused more than 1 million children under 5 years old in India to die of dysentery every year.
The film rewrites the fate of India's 654 million women and millions of children, and the resulting more comprehensive and deeper blow to the conservative forces will be as immeasurable as the butterfly effect.
In recent years, you may also find that Indian films seem to be relaying European and American films, grasping the changes in the tastes of Chinese audiences. It's not hard to find that these niche drama movies are catching up with Hollywood blockbusters little by little
I admit that whenever I mention the country of India, I unconsciously put on a pair of colored glasses to observe, and even often bluntly say how the third brother is (I need to reflect on it here). Taking infrastructure as an example, it has long been left behind by us, and looking at the whole world, I am afraid that it is difficult for a second country to compare with the Heavenly Dynasty in terms of the speed and scale of infrastructure construction. As a country with a population base and China's parity, India has been trying to catch up with us, and if you pay attention to current events, you may often notice some news that India has overtaken us in a certain area, but even if you configure a turbocharging momentum for India's development, it is not on the order of magnitude as us, and these can be said with data.
The reason why I began to be interested in India, but also from the movie, in recent years to watch a lot of movies starring India's national treasure star Amir Khan, let me have a sharp increase in my liking for India. From the popular "3 Idiots Bollywood" (2009), to last year's box office and fame and fortune "Wrestling! Dad (Dangal 2016), making the name Amir Khan a household name in the land of God. There is a kind of film in this world that can change the country, through a film that reflects on the old religious system, pedantic traditional concepts and culture, and promotes the innovation of social systems, which really happens in this magical land of India. Although the gun of movies sometimes seems to be a drop in the bucket, people feel vaguely in their hearts and minds that something is beginning to waver, and on this level, it has long exceeded the meaning of the film itself.
Divorce because of the toilet, how to think is a ridiculous thing, caste system or class differences or so on is still convincing, but such a reason has completely exceeded the audience's cognition. But this is not a movie brain hole, it is completely based on real events, and it is necessary to dive into the toilet problem in India.
The country with the largest population without toilets in the world is not in Africa, but in India, the reason why toilet resources are so scarce is inseparable from the traditional religious culture and beliefs of this country. We all know that Indians do not wash their hands with paper and water after going to the toilet, eat without chopsticks or knives and forks, and untie their hands outdoors. On the contrary, Indians, especially Hindus, have a paranoid concept of cleanliness, such as not allowing shoes to enter temples, in Hinduism, shoes are regarded as unclean things, because they carry the filth of the world, if Hindi scolds you to eat shoes, you are equivalent to saying that you eat.
It is not difficult to understand why Indians are not allowed to build toilets in their homes, and things containing such a dirty and smelly thing as human excrement appear in the home, which is probably a rebellion. In this way, Indians can only be outdoors, arbitrarily choosing an empty place, free and unbound and breathing fresh air, not to mention the spirit of the doctrine. If the Japanese love cleanliness is caused by living habits, then the Indian love of cleanliness can rise to the height of religion.
So, Indian resistance to toilets is a deep-rooted disease, so that the whole country has become one of the world's largest outdoor open-air toilets, which is not funny, this is the fact of iron zhengzheng.
We can see that in the film, in the village of Jaye's mother-in-law, the women are all walking together outdoors, with a lamp and an urn, looking for an open field or bushes and grass at night or in the early morning, and this activity also has a special organization called the "Women's Federation".
So the problem is that outdoor hand-offs are extremely unsafe for women, and India's population structure is dominated by young and middle-aged labor, but their education level is uneven, and it can even be said that the level is worrying. In this way, the village gangsters will inevitably harass, as the film says, the man driving the car uses the headlights to illuminate the women in his hands to satisfy his voyeurism. There is also a 17-year-old girl who hangs from a tree after being raped, and a 17-year-old girl who commits suicide because she does not have a toilet, which leads to another chronic disease in Indian society - rape. So seemingly a simple toilet problem, in fact, there are great security risks, for women, is a serious sexism, it is not difficult to understand why Jaye will use divorce as a reason to force her husband to solve the toilet problem once and for all, to put it bluntly, higher education was born in an open-minded family, and she is deeply resentful of sex discrimination.
At this point, you know why, at the beginning of the film, Jayer beat a driver villager who flirted with a roadside girl in vulgar language into a cow dung heap. It is not difficult to understand that when Jaye returned to her mother's house in a gamble and saw a group of fathers and daughters going to the toilet together, the group angrily scolded them.
Because of the toilet problem and the divorce between the husband and the separation, it quickly spread to the media, and we looked at the attitudes of each group one by one.
Jaye's mother lost face because her daughter made the family affairs known to everyone. The members of the Women's Federation, like thousands of Indian women, have long since lost the consciousness of rebellion, because the toilet divorce is simply a failure of education.
Returning to the main body of the film, a simple toilet that causes such a strong dramatic conflict is not only an insurmountable obstacle between the marriage of Jaye and Keshav, but also a confrontation between traditional culture and religion and modern civilization. This ancient civilization that approached the modern era under British colonial rule has an ingrained religious belief and traditional culture, and also has a nationalism derived from humiliating modern history, they refuse to accept foreign cultures, and they have zero tolerance for such things as toilet repairs. Like Keshav's father said, don't complicate simple issues like toilets. When Keshav took all kinds of evidence and materials to the government department to solve the toilet problem, the official said with a straight face, the government installed sewer lines in your home, but you turned it off, so we had no choice. Every love story has a villain, and Keshav's villain is the toilet.
In the process of struggling with the mountain of traditional culture, Keshav is the most pathetic character in the play, he is sandwiched between his wife and father, and he is not human, on the one hand, filial piety, on the other hand, love. He was just an ordinary bicycle trader, not as high as his wife's culture, but he was desperate to save his marriage with a death-defying attitude.
My decision to resist the whole world for you, the weight of which has long since transcended the boundaries of love, evolved into a struggle against religious culture, against the traditional vices and entrenched notions of a nation, is not this a revolution, and in order to promote this movement, the government has even adopted the whim of locking the toilets in the offices of government officials to force the construction of public toilets. Of course, the protagonist of the story outside the film is the toilet repaired by the charity.
In fact, at the beginning of the film, the process of Jayer and Keshav from acquaintance to love lays the groundwork for this huge conflict. The 36-year-old Keshav had to find someone with two thumbs to marry because of a lack of fire in his life, so there was a joke that his first wife was a cow. And he can only secretly date a lover on the firewood stack, but he is unable to get married.
One is the over-educated wife Jaye in the eyes of ordinary people, and the other is an ordinary bicycle dealer, and the combination of these two people itself bears the risk of not being right at home, fortunately they have a solid foundation of love, but they seem so humble in the face of a strong religious tradition.
So, while we were still obsessed with Mary Sue's love dog blood film and television drama, the amazing country of India had begun to challenge the authority with movies. The marital crisis, class struggle and social change caused by a toilet are not funny at all.
In the end, free will triumphed, and the women's consciousness was awakened and they took to the streets to march and shout. India may still have many problems to be uprooted for quite some time to come, but it is not known how long this process will last.