<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > preface</h1>
We all know that food, clothing, shelter and transportation are the most basic things in life, and other things can be slowed down, but food, clothing, shelter and transportation cannot be slowed down.
However, there is actually a more basic need than food, clothing, housing, and transportation, that is, the need to go to the toilet.
People have three anxieties, but when they want to go to the toilet, they can't find a place, and this anxiety and pain I believe most people have experienced.
There is a cold joke on the Internet that when Americans are in a hurry, they will become Jiang Guoren. Isn't it a vivid expression of anxiety when you can't find a toilet?
We usually have toilets at home, and when shopping, many large shopping malls also have toilets with particularly good decoration, and we rarely encounter the situation of not being able to find a toilet.
Because of this convenience, we can ignore how important it is to go to the toilet.
Yet this important and convenient thing for us is divided among men and women in India.
Women in India do not have toilets, and if they want to go to the toilet, they have to go to the wilderness with other women in the village.
Doesn't that sound particularly ridiculous? But it's real, and there's an Indian movie that's about it.
The movie is "Toilet Hero", let's take a closer look at the toilet culture in India and how they gained women's right to go to the toilet through resistance.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > strange Indians</h1>
The culture and customs of each country are different, but India is a country with more strange and backward customs.
A few days ago, there was also news reports that Indians caught two frogs because it had not rained for a long time this year, so they forcibly held a wedding for them to ask for rain.
It is also miraculous that after the two frogs got married, it actually rained in India, and it rained for many days at once.
But then the problem came again, and the continuous torrential rain caused floods in India, so the magical Indian people caught the two frogs back and forcibly divorced them.
This kind of childish and a little ridiculous, ridiculous with a little mystery in the eyes of Indians is just the norm.
In the movie "Toilet Hero", they have a custom that men must find someone to calculate their fate after they reach adulthood before they can get married.
As a result, the male protagonist's father told him fortunes and found that he was incompatible with all women, and unless he found a girl with two thumbs, he would marry a buffalo.
Originally, the male protagonist had a girlfriend who was in love, but this girlfriend was cruelly rejected by the male protagonist's father because she did not have two thumbs.
They searched the whole village and could not find a woman with two thumbs, so the man had no choice but to marry the buffalo.
It was really shocking and funny to see here, and it was so strange that indians could really marry a cow so obediently.
If Chinese children are as obedient as the male protagonist, Chinese parents will definitely wake up laughing in their dreams.
If someone really marries a cow because of superstition, maybe they can still go on the "Approaching Science" program.
Because there is a high probability that people will be considered evil.
Unfortunately, the male protagonist is in India, where the patriarchy dominates, and it is difficult for individual strength to oppose the whole society.
The man was not happy after marrying the buffalo, because the buffalo was not his true love.
It is understandable that although Indians are alien to modern society in many customs and concepts, they are normal human beings and will not really fall in love with a buffalo.
The sullen male protagonist met the female protagonist from a rich family in a chance encounter.
Although the heroine is highly educated, India is a country with a surname system, and their respect for a person is not judged by the amount of wealth, but according to a person's caste, similar to "bloodline suppression".
In India, a person with a noble caste, even if he is a beggar, will be respected by others, and some people with a low caste will donate this wealth to the nobles with high castes even if they have created a lot of wealth through their own efforts, in order to pray that they will become a person with a high caste in the next life.
Some people who did not understand this had gone to India to interview them and asked them why they had donated their hard-earned wealth to the unearned nobles for free, and the Indians' answer was equally bizarre, they thought it was their duty.
Because the religion they believe in enshrines people of the noble caste as lords, and the people of the lower castes are slaves, slaves are born to serve the Lord, and if they want to be lords, they can only become lords in the next life if they do their best to serve the Lord.
So, in China we get married depending on the caravan gift, but in India the first thing to look at is caste.
As we mentioned earlier, the female protagonist comes from a rich family and is highly educated, but her caste is lower than that of the male protagonist, which is why the female protagonist and the male protagonist are in love but have not been opposed by their parents.
Although the male protagonist's home is in the countryside, his caste is noble, which is still the female protagonist in the eyes of the Indians.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > woman with a fake thumb</h1>
After the male and female protagonists fell in love, they gradually developed into deep love, and the two decided to get married.
However, the heroine did not have two thumbs on her hand, and his father would not agree to this affair alone.
The heroine originally wanted to see the father of the male protagonist first, because she was highly educated and believed that she could persuade the male protagonist's father to abandon the ridiculous concept.
But the male protagonist prevents the naïve idea of the female protagonist, because he knows that the stubborn father will not be easily persuaded, so he must outsmart.
Thinking about it, the male protagonist only thought of one way, that is, to press a false thumb on the female protagonist.
When the male protagonist returned home with the female protagonist with two thumbs, the male protagonist's father was happy and broken. Because in fact, he was also afraid that his son's life would be entrusted to a cow.
Now my son is lucky to find a girl with two thumbs, which is simply too good.
So the two young people who were in love with each other were married smoothly with a nervous and excited mood.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > woke up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet</h1>
However, on the night of their wedding, their marriage went wrong.
Just as the so-called "spring supper moment is worth thousands of gold, from now on the king does not early dynasty", how important the cave house flower candle night is to men, I believe men understand.
After experiencing a fierce struggle, the male protagonist turned around and went to sleep, but the female protagonist was suddenly awakened by the sound outside the window.
She opened the window and saw that the women in the village were all outside the window, and they said that they had come to wait for her to go to the toilet together.
Seeing here is not only the audience stunned, the heroine of the movie is also stunned, she can't believe that in her own country, India, women have to endure until midnight when they go to the toilet, using a line in the movie "I go to the toilet like a thief."
And when Indian women go to the toilet, they still have to have a bunch of talents to dare to go, and the picture of the movie also deeply exposes that Indian women have no "status" at all.
Back in the film, although the confused heroine can't understand what this situation is, she just happens to be a little anxious, so she puts on her clothes and goes out to meet these women.
The heroine followed the group of women farther and farther, and finally came to the wild at the mouth of the village, and they took turns to run to the grass for convenience.
The heroine was stunned again, she could not bear to go to the toilet in this way, so she turned and left.
The more the heroine who returned to the marriage room wanted to get angrier, she pushed up the big pig's trotter that was sleeping soundly, and angrily asked the male owner to solve the problem of going to the toilet for him.
The male protagonist who woke up from sleep also thought that the female protagonist wanted it again, but he did not expect that it was because of the toilet problem, and he could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, and quickly promised her that tomorrow he would apply to his father to build a toilet exclusive to the female protagonist in the yard.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > fight for the toilet</h1>
The next day at dinner, the man said the idea of building a toilet, but his father was furious and even dropped the bowl.
The female protagonist was very unhappy, and she left a harsh sentence that she would return to her mother's house without solving the toilet problem, and the male protagonist had to rack his brains to find a way.
On this day, the man saw the train stop outside the village, observed for a while, and found that the train would stop here for 7 minutes every day. The man excitedly ran home and told his wife that he would have 7 minutes to use the toilet on the train every day.
Oh my Goodness, I only go to the toilet once a day, and there is a time limit, can you imagine?
But the female protagonist is already very satisfied, and every day she will go to the toilet accompanied by the male protagonist.
Seeing here, some people may ask, is the male protagonist so idle?
Accompanying a woman to the toilet every day, won't she go herself?
In fact, women's freedom of movement in India is very limited, and many places need to be accompanied by their husbands, and perhaps the same is true of train stations.
However, going to the toilet on the train is not a long-term solution, what if you have a stomachache and you are anxious to go to the toilet and the train is late?
What if someone in the seven-minute toilet where the train stops here?
Or what if the stomach is slightly upset and overtime?
And these problems have been encountered by the heroine. There was even a time when the female protagonist came out of the toilet only to find that the train had left, the male protagonist was desperately chasing outside the train, and the female protagonist was crying on the train.
The female protagonist who has experienced these things can't bear it, and returns to her mother's house in a huff, and also sends a message to the male protagonist, if they do not solve the toilet problem within a year, they will divorce.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > effort to save the bride</h1>
The man who ran away from the bride was also frustrated and angry, and he decided to report the problem of building public toilets to the local high-level, but the high-level staff told him that the government planned to build public toilets a year ago, but the place planned to build public toilets was artificially occupied.
Sometimes it is not the leadership that does not act, and the number of people who can work at the top is still educated, and the Indian authorities should also want to change some of the pedantic and backward phenomena, but unfortunately, the people are not civilized, and many policies will be obstructed.
That is why universal education is so important, and only education can make people ignorant.
The male protagonist who had no way to think of his wife was eager, so he built a toilet in the courtyard despite the opposition of his family, and he told his family that this toilet was specially used by the female owner, and no one should care about it. Unexpectedly, after the male protagonist went to pick up the female protagonist, he found that the father actually pestered the man in the village to smash the toilet.
The male protagonist who saw this scene was naturally indignant and quarreled with his father on the spot. And the heroine looked at the man who built a toilet for him and confronted her father for her, and suddenly understood that the key to the problem was not the male protagonist, the male protagonist loved her, and she should not leave the problem to the male protagonist alone to bear.
It is very rare to be able to realize this, we are easy to blame each other when there is a problem in the relationship, but we do not understand that when we face the problem, we are on the same front as our partner, and what we have to do is to solve the problem together, not to blame each other.
The female protagonist, who understood this key point, decided to stay and fight with the male protagonist for the right of all women to go to the toilet.
Seeing this, will you reflect on your past feelings?
I hope that every girl, when facing problems in the relationship, will not only blame and throw all the responsibility to the man as the heroine did at the beginning, the strength of the individual is limited, especially when the beloved person is awkward with himself, it is more expensive to spend heart and energy, so it may as well be used in the right place, to face the problems of life together, and the love that grows together is more firm.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > two swords together against ignorance</h1>
The woman who figured it out decided to make a big deal out of it with the man, so they divorced.
And bought the front page of the newspaper to report on the matter, the title is "Newlyweds Divorced Because of Toilet Problems."
As expected, this report caused a strong response, and many advanced women who were deeply affected by it also took advantage of this to fight back and marched against it.
This once again proves the truth that "water can carry boats, but also overturn boats", long-term oppression and exploitation will inevitably lead to riots and rebellions, and equality and peace will be the general trend of the world.
As early as when the male owner asked for the construction of public toilets, the women in the villagers questioned the male protagonist, who was accustomed to the previous way of life and was very opposed to the male protagonist changing the traditional practice for a woman.
At that time, when I saw this, I had a question in my heart: "Why do women always like to embarrass women no matter where they are?" "Building public toilets is supposed to be a good thing for all women, so why don't they support it?
After some thought, I think that this kind of psychology is not only out of women's jealousy, but also because these women have lived under the patriarchal society for a long time, have long been accustomed to living dependent on men, they may never fight for their own interests in their lives, and the behavior of male and female protagonists has broken through the limits of their cognition.
People are afraid of the heart they have never had, just like Zhang Ailing said, "People feel happy when they are close to happiness, but they suffer from gains and losses when happiness is carried out", people who have never been loved do not know how to love people, and people who have never been given power do not dare to touch it when they face power.
However, there is a saying in China that "the law does not blame the public", and there is also a saying that "many people are powerful", and no matter what kind of advanced civilization human beings have developed, they cannot change this fact - human beings are social animals.
Therefore, in the face of many important choices and events, people always have to unite together to have courage.
Sometimes in the face of some things where collective interests are exploited, in fact, everyone's heart will hope for a change, but there is a lack of fuse and leader.
Therefore, before there were news reports, and then under the leadership of the male and female protagonists, people's long-accumulated resentment finally broke out and evolved into collective protests.
And the women who had previously refused to build public toilets because of fear changed the wind and sided with "radicalism".
The person who admires this movie the most is the heroine, when a normal person comes to the middle of the abnormal person, the normal thinking will be hit and oppressed, and the person with the weak will can easily choose to merge with the large group and abandon the previous knowledge system to degenerate themselves.
But the heroine did not do this, but bravely put forward her own appeal, and through the efforts of herself and her lover to let more people support her views.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > successfully attracted the attention of the top</h1>
The huge demonstration in the film attracted the attention of the top.
This is why the citizens of some countries are willing to demonstrate tirelessly, and when the problem accumulates to a certain extent and there is nowhere to solve it, those who are troubled by the problem can only get attention in such a simple and rude way, so as to get a solution to the problem.
In order to calm the people's anger, the top level introduced a policy to build toilets for women in rural areas everywhere.
However, the father of the male protagonist is still stubborn and thinks that the male protagonist is corrupting the custom by doing so.
Why is the movie showing us this segment?
Is the only thing the movie wants to express is that the father of the male protagonist does not agree to build a toilet?
Of course not, the father of the male protagonist represents the feudal ideas maintained by the people of his time, and it is difficult for his father to support the things that his son pokes out, let alone other people.
This reflects the fact from the side that the policy is still a long way from uploading to the actual implementation below, and sometimes it is not the inaction of the top level that has to be protested, but the stubbornness and feudal conservatism of the people's hearts.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Grandma's fall changed my father's mind</h1>
The turning point of the matter occurred on a rainy day, the man's grandmother wanted to go to the toilet outside the village, and as a result, because the threshold of the rainy day was full of rain, the grandmother accidentally fell to the ground and could not move.
But at this time, the grandmother was in a hurry to urinate, and the father of the male owner had to carry the grandmother into the toilet that the male owner had built in the yard before, although it was smashed, but it was barely able to cover.
When Grandma was convenient in the toilet, the man's father fell into contemplation, and he suddenly realized how convenient it was to have a toilet nearby, and he did not understand what he was insisting on.
Of course, at the end of the movie, everyone is happy, the father of the male protagonist has finally opened the door, the village has built a toilet, the female protagonist and the male protagonist have married again, and since then began a happy life without shame.
Although "Toilet Hero" tells the story of the toilet, there are many truths contained in it, and if you look at it carefully, you will find that this is a movie worth watching seriously. However, the movie "Toilet Hero" is mainly through the construction of toilets to express a phenomenon that Indian women have not had a "status" for a long time.