The movie "Crow Egg" is an Indian comedy, but this comedy, in addition to comedy, also tells some helplessness in India's slums. The two protagonists who appear in the film are a pair of brothers who grew up in the slums and depended on their mother and grandmother. Their father was still in jail because the family could not afford 20,000 rupees, so their father could not be released on bail.
For children, the absence of their father's company is in itself a lack of love, not to mention that they live in a slum-like situation. The mother has to worry about life, and the two children in the movie, always barefoot and wearing dirty clothes, shuttle through the streets like wild children who have no one to take care of, and have a very different life from the rich area separated by only one railing.
The background of the protagonist in the movie is like this, just by looking at the two children's heads and innocent faces, you can determine that this is a movie that satirizes the gap between the rich and the poor. The film is very short, and the first hour is almost about two hours of ordinary Indian movies. In this movie, you can't see the pompous songs and dances that represent India, but you can still feel the strong Indian label in this movie.
The film begins with the developer cutting down the crooked neck tree, when the two brothers were happiest to do was steal crow eggs. But after the tree was cut down, the brothers' dream became a delicious pizza on the TV. In order to eat pizza, the two children worked very hard, but in the process of eating pizza, we as the audience watched the five tastes and miscellaneous, and also deeply understood how deep the gap between rich and poor is.
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There is a detail in the movie that reminds me many times of the classic movie "Parasite". Two poor boys had a companion in the rich district, and they talked across a railing. Several people will discuss the taste of pizza together, and rich children will come up with ideas to tell them how to make enough money.
Once, the rich man took a piece of pizza that had been bitten and excitedly handed it to two poor boys, who had no malice, but hurt the self-esteem of the poor brother. Although they usually talk together, their thoughts are not at the same level. Rich people think that poor children will be happy when they get pizza, but they do not expect that their behavior will be seen as a kind of ostentation and discrimination.
This is similar to the musty smell repeatedly emphasized by the rich in "Parasite". The rich themselves did not say discriminate against the poor or how, but just felt that the smell was unpleasant, and subconsciously sighed out. But when this phrase reached the ears of the poor, it became an insult.
For the poor, it is a kind of harm for the rich to live. If the world is poor and everyone has a musty smell, then there is no discrimination against each other. And the rich kid in the railing, who lives in the slum like two poor kids, then the pizza that bites is mostly not seen as an insult, but rather a sharing between friends.
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The two children in the movie find a job transporting coal in order to eat pizza. When they finally saved enough money to enter the pizzeria, they were stopped by the security guards. The security guard said, "There's no pizza here," but the pizzeria was clearly in front of the two children.
The adult told the two children that the two children were dressed in rags and must not go to that kind of high-end place, so in order to eat pizza, the two children began to save money to buy new clothes. Wait until you can't save enough money, and find that the place where clothes are sold is more advanced, and they can't go in.
In desperation, the two bought new clothes from the rich child and walked to the door of the pizzeria again. But this time, they were greeted by a vicious slap from the boss. Two children are blindfolded, why do they know they have money but can't buy the pizza they want to eat?
There is also a scene in the movie where two children call the pizza delivery phone and want to order a takeaway. But when people asked for addresses, the children discovered that there were hundreds of people living in the slums, and each of them did not have a house number. Not to mention the house number, children born in slums may not even have socially recognized status.
Like Zane, who wanders around in "What a Home," his origins are known only to his parents. They don't have birth certificates and they don't have id cards. Even their parents can't remember the diaries of their births.
These children without identities are not the audience of the pizzeria.
It's not that there's no pizza sold there, but it's not pizza that's not sold to poor kids. Even if the two put on new clothes, it still can't change the nature of their coming from the slums. Just like the family living in the semi-underground in "Parasite", no matter how you bathe, you can't wash away the musty smell on your body.
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The video of the two children being slapped by the boss was exposed, and the boss had to come out and apologize under the pressure of public opinion. To quell the anger, the boss decided to give the two children the right to eat pizza for free for life, and also introduced a cheap pizza of 45 rupees so that the poor could afford pizza.
This mercenary businessman transformed himself into a widely acclaimed philanthropist. At the end of the movie, two children sit in the shop, this time dressed in rags, but they get preferential treatment from the security guard and the boss.
Watching the children do not eat, the boss even feeds them personally. The coveted pizza finally reached their mouths, but the two children were whispering that it was not delicious at all, and it was not as good as the pancakes made by grandma.
Looking at the ending, it feels like two children have won the final victory in this pizza war, but it is actually the owner of the pizzeria who has gained more benefits.
In fact, whether in the movie or in real life, there is always an iron law: "You may make money, but the merchant will never lose." The concessions of capital are often also aimed at obtaining greater profits.
The movie "Crow Egg" is actually really very realistic. He portrays India's serious gap between rich and poor, but many of the plots in the film can be found in all corners of the world. But in the face of the gap between the rich and the poor, in the face of the poor who will inevitably have it, there is nothing we can do.
The process of watching this movie is a torturous process, although there are many interesting scenes in the movie, such as using bamboo poles to knock off the mobile phones of people sitting on the side of the train, such as the ignorance and ignorance of two children in the face of social rules, but when looking at the innocent smiles of children and powerless social problems, the audience can only feel the helplessness of the five tastes.
As bystanders, the only thing we can expect is that there will be more good people among the rich who are willing to treat the poor equally. Even if there is no public opinion, they can walk into the storefront and buy a pizza with their hard money. Let the poor, at least qualify for pizza. Hopefully, the gap between rich and poor will disappear.
At the same time, I also hope that the poor who live in the depths of the water will not be crushed by life and pursue a good material life, but they will never be hostile to the rich.