The Land of Greed "Tabad": He stole the gold coins of the demon god with flour, but turned into an undead monster to welcome to the end of the [Hagawa Reading Hall] movie, leaving the audience with suspense: the result of greed is that all will be destroyed, and after tasting the "sweetness" and seeing his father's dead son, will he return to the goddess's womb for the gold coins? The last few scenes of the film hint that the son will not return, because he has experienced the fate of greed. The son's greed is not in Hasta's gold coins, but in the father's love. If the son had no more greed, he would still be able to live a rich life, and it would be even more difficult to return to the womb of the goddess than it is now.

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The earth is enough to meet all our needs, but not our greed. —Mahatma Gandhi.

Stills from the movie "Tabad"

The Indian film "Tabad", released in 2018, has a strong religious connotation,

It links religious beliefs, human flaws and horrific visuals,

Stimulating the senses while also torturing our humanity:

To destroy a man must first make him greedy.

In Hindu mythology,

The goddess of prosperity is a symbol of infinite gold and food. And the earth is her womb.

When the universe was created, she gave birth to 160 million gods.

She loved her first child, Hasta.

But Hasta wanted all the gold coins and grain of the goddess,

He stole the goddess's gold coins and was killed by other siblings as he prepared to steal the food.

The goddess did not let him go to ashes, but hid him in her womb,

And make a pact with him – he will never be worshipped and will be forgotten forever.

But there is a place where the idol of Hasta is enshrined,

This is the male protagonist Vinayak's hometown of Tabad Tumblbad.

The Tabad mansion with treasure

The protagonist, Vinayak, has always been obsessed with Tabad's gold coins, and his great-grandmother was once bitten for stealing Hasta's gold coins and turned into an immortal, eternally hungry monster.

Growing up, Vinayak answered Tabad despite her mother's persuasion,

Found the great-grandmother who had turned into a monster and had grown up with the tree.

He killed his great-grandmother in exchange for her relief,

Got a way to steal Hasta's gold coins.

The great-grandmother asked Vinayak to kill herself

The process of stealing gold coins is extremely sinister:

He's going to make a flour doll out of the flour that Hasta likes.

As it ate the flour doll, he pulled open the cloth bag on Hasta's waist and let the gold coins spill on the ground,

Pick up a few gold coins on the ground in a very short time and return to the ground via a sling.

If you take a slow step, you will be bitten by a monster that is only covered in blood and become an immortal monster.

Therefore, Vineak can only get back a few gold coins at a time, but because of the accumulation of time, he has accumulated a lot of wealth.

As his son grew older, Vinayak asked him to start practicing stealing gold coins in order to be his successor. After a successful collaboration between the two, the son came up with an idea:

If we make a lot of flour dolls, can't we buy more time and steal Hasta's loincloth directly?

Father and son said they would do it.

Unexpectedly, when they took out a dozen flour dolls, the number of hastas that appeared was the same as that of flour dolls. Father and son could not escape as a result.

In the end, the father had to tie all the dolls to himself and lure all the Hasta away.

The son is saved, but the father has also become a terrible monster.

The son was so frightened and sad that he ended his father's suffering with a fire and left the mansion where the goddess's womb was hidden alone.

<h1>At the end of the movie, it leaves the audience with suspense: the result of greed is doom, after tasting the "sweetness" and seeing the son of the father die, will he return to the goddess's womb for gold coins? </h1>

Vinayak's great-grandmother turned into an ugly monster for the sake of gold coins.

Vinayak's mother was willing to be the mistress of the old and ugly village chief for a gold coin on the idol.

Vinayak himself broke his promise to his mother and returned to Tabad in search of treasure.

What about Vinayak's son? Will this greed continue?

The film came to an abrupt end, leaving suspense about his son and more room for thinking.

However, I think that Tabad, as a human fable cloaked in horror, uses seemingly exaggerated cinematic language, horror and even somewhat disgusting cinematic footage, and does not just want to tell a story of reincarnation and greed.

Like Pandora's box, all the evils of time have dissipated, and there is still "hope" left at the end.

<h1>The last few scenes of the film hint that the son will not return, because he has experienced the fate of greed. </h1>

The son climbed out of the well and saw that his father had been bitten by Hasta into a monster, and the monster held out a hand that was Hasta's loin cloth.

The father said to him in a terrible voice, "Take it!" Loincloth! Take it! ”

A loincloth filled with inexhaustible gold coins was in front of him, and the son held out a hand, but shrank back. His father asked him, "Don't you want it?" He shook his head a few times and said, "No! ”

He wept bitterly and lit his father with the oil lamp in his hand, ending his father's eternal suffering as a monster.

At the end of the film, the son leaves tabad's mansion with his secrets and closes the door that separates the two worlds.

The movie ends here.

If at the end of the movie, the son takes over the loincloth from his father's hand, then he will most likely return here again and find a way to get more gold coins.

But from the moment his father turned into a monster, the son was fully awake, and he understood that nothing was as important as his father. It was his own greed and cleverness that killed his father.

The film focuses on the scene where his son closes the door, which also shows that he has closed his desire for the treasure of this mansion. How many flour dolls with it will attract as many hastas, and with huge flour dolls may attract huge hastas.

Just as greed and risk always coexist, how greedy there is, how dangerous it is.

This is what the son realized with the death of his father.

<h1>The son's greed is not in Hasta's gold coins, but in the father's love. </h1>

Vinayak always spoke harshly to his son, either sneering at him or punching and kicking.

When the son first appeared, the camera deliberately portrayed his lameness, which was caused by the father's violence.

At a young age, my son began to practice desperately the whole process of climbing ropes to steal gold coins. At dinner, he proudly told his father: "I practiced very well today, I used it 19 times and took 8 gold coins." ”

But the father was expressionless, did not answer a word, ate two bites and got up and left.

It was hard to follow his father for the first "real battle", but he was sneered at by his father on the way there. The father gave his son a gold coin, and with great joy he gave the gold coin to a prostitute he liked, saying that he would marry her in the future.

When Vinayak found out, he beat him up again, even strangling him.

It wasn't until his son said how to steal the "loincloth" that he survived.

The son, unlike his father, Vinayak, grew up in a wealthy family and did not crave as much gold as Vinayak. Everything he did was not to satisfy himself, but more to satisfy his father.

He knew that in his father's heart, a gold coin was a hundred times more important than him.

It can also be seen from the fact that the son had obtained a gold coin with his own hands, but quickly gave it to the prostitute:

The son is also greedy, but what he is greedy for is not "gold coins", but "love". The love of the father, the love of the girl, the appreciation and recognition of others. When his father died, his greed died with it.

The more you take, the more you lose.

<h1>If the son had no more greed, he would still be able to live a rich life, and it would be even more difficult to return to the womb of the goddess than it is now. </h1>

The first is that his father, Vinayak, amassed a lot of wealth.

On the night that the father and son escaped from danger and answered home, the father took his son to the utility room and opened the secret door on the floor.

Inside the secret door is a storage compartment filled with Hasta's gold coins and several thick piles of banknotes.

The money, although they never have to return to Tabad, is enough for two lifetimes.

This was apparently a deposit that Vinayak had left for his wife and children.

Therefore, even if the son curbs his greed and does not return to Tabad, the money will be enough to live a rich life with his mother and two sisters.

After the independence of the Indian government in 1947, all the occupied lands in India were returned to the country, including Tabad.

Vinayak donated a lot of money to the Indian government due to his wealth. The government sent a special visit to him and offered to divide a piece of land for him to rebuild a larger, more luxurious mansion.

Vinayak offered to want Tabad's territory, but government officials said that Tabad had been given to the Indian government by its original owner last week, and the government would invest in the development of Tabad and build a new village.

The reconstruction of the government will inevitably completely tear out the dilapidated mansions that originally hid the secrets of the treasure, and the secrets of the gold coins may be discovered by the government or buried.

But in any case, the son who has only been there twice will certainly find the entrance to the goddess's womb in the future.

Of course, if the son is accustomed to a luxurious life, he may have a good scar and forget the pain, and it is not known whether he will take the risk again. Once a person has greed, he will do everything in his power to do everything he can and pay all the costs.

Human greed is difficult to contain, which is also the central idea that runs through the movie "Tabad".

Western Christianity has Original Sin, which refers to "sin born of man," derived from Eve, who was seduced by an apple. In Catholicism, original sin is also called the "Seven Deadly Sins", which are divided from light to heavy: arrogance, jealousy, anger, laziness, greed, gluttony, and lust.

Eastern Buddhism also has the sayings of "three poisons" and "three impurities", which refer to the three unwholesome roots of "greed", "anger", and "delusion". Buddhism believes that greed and anger are the source of sin.

It can be seen that human beings have long been familiar with "greed" and are very aware of the evil consequences that greed will eventually bring.

In the movie, Vinayak, as a father, can make a fortune from Hasta's gold coins because he knows how to stop at the right time, just do what he can at a time, take one or two gold coins, and never stay too much.

As the saying goes, "Greed doesn't chew well." ”

Having desires and having what you want is not necessarily a good thing.

It urges us to forge ahead and give everything to strive for it.

But do not be greedy,

And do not harm others and benefit yourself.

To know that to receive, you must first give,

The most complete is the right time.