Douban score 9.3! This year's best-known theatrical film has almost been locked in advance, and this is "WrestleMania!" starring Indian film star Aamir Khan as a producer. Daddy". Since its release last Friday, this Indian film has exploded the circle of friends with a burst of word-of-mouth, completely conquered Chinese audiences, and changed our prejudice against Indian movies "dancing without a word".
In fact, over the years, what kind of leaps in the quality of Indian films have been achieved, I believe that at least those who care about Asian films have understood. If the West has always held high the banner of strategic universal values, India has now embarked on its own path. From "Love's Posthumous Report", "Three Fools Bollywood" to now "WrestleMania! Daddy", which can be seen in the increasingly sophisticated expression of social issues.
With the movie "Wrestle It! "Daddy" is a hit, and "Indian movies" have become a hot topic again, which has led us to pay further attention to Indian movies, and it is inevitable to compare them with Chinese movies. To be honest, some excellent Indian films are enough to make many Chinese "blockbusters" ashamed of themselves.
After watching the movie "WrestleMania! After "Daddy", many people exclaimed: "Sigh, India can also make such a good movie." "Whether this is a satire on India or a praise for the film, do not speculate, maybe everyone can not accept the reality that Indian movies are stronger than China." Because when it comes to the development of Chinese films, it can be described as an infinite scenery and such a gratifying situation, but under the prosperity of the surface, it is full of dangers.
From the perspective of masterpieces, international reputation, and export values, Chinese films are a latecomer in front of India. Think carefully about the years when the Chinese mainland film market has expanded rapidly, what masterpieces can we take out in front of the world, and to whom have we exported any values? Here are five Indian movies to give you a feel for what is really a good movie.
1. Bollywood Life and Death (Devdas)
Devdas is first a very popular Indian novella, and then it has been made into a movie many times, like our Liang Zhu, although the storyline is already familiar to the heart, various operas, movies, TV series have a special love for it, so it will still go back and forth in front of everyone all year round.
Devdas was well-known and widely influential in India, and its author was Saratchandra Chattopadhyay (1876-1938). Since it was first published in 1917, it has been widely circulated as a household name. This story is both a touching love triangle that takes place between Devdas, Paro and the famous prostitute Chandramukh, and is also a song of impermanent fate. The most famous film version is the Shah Rukh Khan version, which was shot in 2002.
The 2002 edition of Devdas is the pinnacle of Bollywood song and dance movies. The whole film pattern is magnificent, magnificent, exquisitely crafted, and unique. The use of light, color and water is the pinnacle of perfection and is one of the most beautiful images I have ever seen.
The dance in the film is even more heart-pounding and dazzling. The perfect combination of action design, scene layout, costumes, and rhythmic soundtrack has created the most poetic and moving Indian song and dance audiovisual feast I have ever seen! There is also the witty and philosophical dialogue, the excellent soundtrack, and the anti-heavenly appearance of the three protagonists, which together create this top Indian work that is absolutely not to be missed!
2. Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle's 2008 film Slumdog is different from his previous comedic tragedies, on the contrary, it is probably more appropriate to call it "tragic comedy". The story is based on Indian diplomat Wikas Swarup's novel Q&A: A humble waiter in Mumbai, India, inadvertently participates in a "who wants to be a millionaire" style TV quiz show, and the uneducated lower class pariah wins a billion rupees.
Naturally, he was suspected of cheating, and the TV producers did not have the money to pay, so they colluded with the police to throw him into prison. The story revolves around the meeting between the waiter and the defense lawyer, and through the ultra-dramatic memories of this uneducated dalit little person, it reveals the injustices and dilemmas encountered by the indian lower class, and also shows the development and changes of Indian society, depicting the lives of people from all walks of life.
3. My God (Peekay)
The film's original name was Peekay, or PK for short, and is a drunken person in Hindi. Chinese translated Indian films always give people a very inexplicable feeling, such as the well-received "Three Fools Bollywood", combined with the content of the movie, it is very offensive, do not know what the meaning is?
This "Alien Drunkard PK Earth God", from the perspective of the film content, this translation can be described as just right, vividly showing how the drunks from the stars use their clever minds to expose the true face of various gods on the earth, their existence may be a kind of blind worship, people live by them left and right and control, easily entrust their lives to the almighty god, in fact, pierce this layer of window paper, everything is a paper tiger, can not withstand any scrutiny and verification.
The film is Rajkumar Hirani, who once directed the Indian film "Three Fools Bollywood", which has a relatively heavy weight in the hearts of mainland film fans, and this time once again joined hands with the famous Indian actor Aamir Khan (Amir Khan) to concoct the 2014 Indian god work, which is said to be the highest-grossing Bollywood film in Indian history, the first Indian film to achieve a global box office of $100 million, breaking the high box office of "Thief of heaven 3" starring Aamir Khan.
The first half of the film shows a lot of religious life in India, all kinds of fish and dragons, strange religious sects, plus the understanding of the alien male protagonist to make people laugh to "tears", the religion is deceptive and complete, and then return to love and begin to tear up.
Like many Bollywood blockbusters, it contains a variety of eye-catching Elements of Indian Cinema, with songs, dances, romances, drama and comedy. Jaw-dropping details, joy mixed with irony. It is said that as soon as the film came out, Indians laughed in all kinds, but the problem that caused public anger was precisely in the ridicule of Indian religion.
4. Little Lori's Monkey God Uncle (Bajrangi Bhaijaan)
As we all know, the gunpowder of the India-Pakistan conflict has never really dissipated, whether it is at the political level or at the level of people's hearts. From this point of view, there is a bold and hard core in the setting of the film, just cleverly softening the theme with a cute little Lolita.
Strictly speaking, this little Lori is a child from an enemy country. In a human sense, people have a moral obligation to help this little girl return to the arms of her parents, and from the perspective of political reality, it is difficult for people to overcome the gulf carved by hatred in their hearts. The instinctive goodwill of human nature ultimately triumphs over the narrowness and viciousness of the mind. This is the root of what makes the film so moving.
Hindu Bajrangi and Rasik meet at the Moonlight Bazaar in New Delhi and become a pair of rivals, but they join forces to help Shahida, a little Muslim girl with a language barrier, to return to her hometown to reunite with her family. When Bajrangi is used as an Indian spy, hunted down and beaten up to send her children home, she sees that there is sometimes an irreparable gulf between secular prejudice and sincerity of human nature.
In the end, he survived nine deaths and won the support of the people of Pakistan and India. The two sides, who were originally hostile, simultaneously chanted the same person's name. All conflicts, disagreements, in such universal human emotions, are like a boring joke.
People inevitably fall into prejudice, but as long as they have good intentions, they will not be completely captured by those ideological and historical barriers. When Bajrangi embraces his faith but expresses his respect for the other with other religious etiquette, when the owner of the mosque smiles at him as a pagan and says, "We welcome everyone," you will find that beneath the appearance of the sword, there is always a warm current of humanity, which is enough to warm all the chills in the disagreement.
5. English Vinglish
India was colonized by the British for a long time, and English is the official language for India, just as Mandarin is for China. I remember when I was very young, I heard some Hakka cross-talk, one of which described Mandarin as "official language", saying "official language" will be considered a very great thing, usually only those who have read books and become officials will say "official language", but Mandarin is originally one of our mother tongues, and many dialects will make people feel that it is a distorted Mandarin. Nowadays, in India, English has also become the official language, many places are native English speakers, and gradually many Indians do not even speak Hindi.
In the movie, the heroine is a traditional Indian woman who can cook a good dish, her English is not good, and she is often ridiculed by her daughter and husband, and gradually the heroine is angry and inferior. The film begins with some family trivia to describe the ambivalence of the heroine in such an environment, and later signs up for a four-week crash course in English by going to a wedding in New York.
In this training class, the heroine also bid farewell to the previous silent life, met all kinds of friends, and encouraged each other to make progress in order to learn English well. Kung Fu pays off, shahi who has studied English day and night from scratch to shine at the wedding banquet, a blessing told to the newlyweds in English not only won her the admiration of everyone, but also won her the love and respect of her family again...
The world is changing, it can be said that it is in a state of conservation, some people have been growing, learning to think for others, becoming tolerant and considerate, but at the same time some people have naïve recklessness, committing naïve crimes against others, because of ignorance and rudeness, but they will one day grow up and become the first kind of people. So no matter how much emphasis is placed on the need for people to improve their quality, to care for and understand others, the world will not change as you wish.
In the great world, we are just a small molecule, at the mercy of fate, caught up in an equation, subject to the principles of nature, naturally doing what should be done. From a macroscopic point of view, we cannot get rid of the control of this force, but this power is also the norm and motivation for us to live, and the only thing we need to do is not to be invaded by it and grind away our will. We don't have to feel humiliated by fate, because it is nature that makes us born and have a reason to live, but we must actively get rid of the shackles of innocence and become a person who constantly makes us satisfied, happy, and proud as soon as possible.
After watching five movies, and then looking back at domestic films, our filmmakers can be said to have basically lost the ability to cut into society and the enthusiasm to contribute to society, leaving aside the profit-seeking phenomenon of making vulgar horror films and comedies, most of the rest are still keen on grand narratives and deep meanings, while a small part is a vigorous desire to express themselves, carrying private goods, and always want to give the audience political lessons.
Domestic filmmakers have simply given up their own life accumulation, and they seriously lack the vision to see major problems from social phenomena, and few people have the ability to show it. To say that the ugly point is that the ambition is great and talented, and I want to reap both fame and fortune, but I refuse to really work hard.
It is not that there is no such technology, but it does not have that pattern and vision at all, and the narrow mind has led to a dojo in a snail shell full of screens, so the cinema is basically a horror film pretending to be a ghost, a spoof film pretending to be crazy and stupid, a literary film pretending to be like a movie, and a costume film pretending to be a posture. It is impossible to see the open atmosphere of the tiger roaring dragon groaning and the galloping of ten thousand horses, and even most of them do not even pass the basic skills, and the loopholes in the film are more than the steel wire balls that brush the bowl.
At every turn, he also pushed the responsibility to the radio and television, used the radio and television to issue a disclaimer to himself, and did not even bear the moral responsibility, which is really a very unwatchable behavior. Imagine really being able to make "Three Fools Bollywood" and "Wrestling!" Movies like "Daddy", will radio and television really guard against death?