In recent years, Bollywood movies have made progress in continuous development, creating countless excellent films and being introduced into The Country, which have won unanimous praise from domestic film fans, "Three Fools Bollywood", "Wrestle, Dad!" "I drop a god", "mysterious superstar" a series of films, while showing the local customs of India, showing the national characteristics of Indian films, focusing on the country, religion, society, education and other aspects, telling the "ordinary" life of ordinary people in the context of the times, it is this simple and unpretentious plot that attracts a group of fans to enter Bollywood and enter this mysterious country in Southeast Asia.
Directed by Kabir Khan and starring Salman Khan in 2018, "Little Lolita's Monkey God Uncle" was released in Chinese theaters, and the film tells the story of a Hanuman religious youth named Pawan, who accidentally encounters Shahida, a Pakistani Muslim girl living on the streets of India, and has a series of misunderstandings because Shahida cannot speak, and in the process of misunderstanding and disarming, Pawan successfully sends Shahida to her parents.
"Little Lori's Monkey God Uncle" is influenced by Indian "new concept" films, while retaining the characteristics of Indian films, integrating the characteristics of Hollywood films, simplifying the large-scale song and dance narratives in traditional Indian films, retaining the necessary song and dance scenes, adding more storylines with great dramatic conflicts, focusing on large national conflicts and religious conflicts at the same time, and at the same time using an extremely dreamy way, with personal idealism, romanticism and heroism to make the reconciliation of inter-state and inter-religious contradictions possible.
First, the contradictions of the state
India and Pakistan were born together, but Mountbatten, the last British governor of India, announced the "Mountbatten Plan" for the partition of India and Pakistan, establishing a separate Pakistani state in the areas where Islam is the majority, and the complexity of religious division of the country caused India and Pakistan to begin a half-century-long war conflict, and such a conflict not only focused on countries, but also the contradiction between the two religions of Hinduism and Islam, especially in Kashmir, which is on the cusp of the storm.
In the film "Little Lori's Monkey God Uncle", the background of the story is in the Sultanpur region of Kashmir, and the protagonist of the story belongs to india and Pakistan, Hinduism and Islam, so the national conflict, religious conflict and the inner conflict of the characters under the influence of various conditions together constitute the triple contradiction conflict of the film. For the handling of the conflict, the director did not take it as a panoramic and three-dimensional. The all-round display, but the small view of the big, starting from the ordinary people affected by the conflict for a long time and their behavior performance, reflects the seriousness of the conflict.
The contradictions and conflicts between countries as the background of the film have always run through the film, from the beginning of the film to the natural scenery of the Sultanpur area in a high camera position, the director will focus on the ordinary people of Pakistan watching the Indian and Pakistani cricket matches, and the antagonistic relationship between India and Pakistan will be presented in the form of a small television broadcast game.
The same scene happens again in the Indian family, the sense of national identity and the rejection of the opposing country are presented in the contrast between the different attitudes of the two ordinary families to the game, when Shahida kisses the flag because of the victory of the Pakistani side, the historical origin of the contradiction between the two countries is revealed through the mouth of Lasika's father: "The people of their country cruelly killed how many of our compatriots" "She is a member of that country", and the heavy historical reality is presented through the mouth of the little people, This approach not only makes the Rasika family's reasons for resisting Shahida's joining more convincing, but also makes the reaction of the national conflict shown in the film to the little people more plausible.
The film's biggest dramatic conflict, sending Pakistani girls home on the streets of India, is also produced in a huge national conflict. To bless their daughter, who could not speak, the village elders advised their parents to go to the shrine of Hazrat Nisamuddin Oria in Delhi, where, for Shahida's father, his status as a retired soldier made this place, which was only one line (the border line) farther away than the United States. Learning of her daughter's disappearance, the mother pleaded with the officer: "It's only five minutes away, please let me go, I will find her myself", the mother stands on the side of the border line but cannot cross the gap between the lines to find her daughter, "it may be five minutes away, but it crosses the border in different countries", the train as the background of the picture is isolated by the barbed wire fence on the other side of the border line, forming a sense of alienation, and the border line becomes a national gap and conflict visualized here.
The contradiction between the two countries makes the two countries have to beware of the intrusion of spies, the first scene of violence in the film is in front of the Pakistani Embassy in India, thousands of protesters for the Pakistani side identified as the Indian side of the Karamjit Singh protested violent incidents, so the smuggling of Pavan without a passport was forcibly identified by the Pakistani side as a spy more for political purposes than for personal purposes, so the personal tragedy was built on the background of national tragedy.
Second, religious estrangement
In fact, the contradictions and conflicts entangled in India and Pakistan are not limited to the politics between countries, the root of the conflict is more the differences and conflicts in different religious beliefs, and the influence of religious beliefs is as a spiritual force throughout, and has become one of the important themes of Indian films, which can be found in almost all Indian films, and interreligious conflicts and reconciliations have also become an important theme in "Little Lori's Monkey God Uncle", and the display of religious contradictions has also been placed on individuals.
Throughout the film's stubborn and difficult way home, it is not difficult to think of Forrest Gump's run around the United States, and Pavan, as a devout believer in the god Hanuman, his devotion to religion has made him form the character characteristics and charm of Forrest Gump, which is the premise for the film's reunion ending to become possible. As a representative of piety, wisdom and strength, the hanuman god is also a metaphorical symbol of pawan's character and personality, pawan's behavior and changes not only represent the individual, when its association with paganism changes, it represents the vast number of Hanuman god believers and even Hanuman god, and the exclusion it shows is also the estrangement between the two religions, when Pawan truly accepted Shahida as a pagan, he also reached interreligious reconciliation, and the change was reflected in the process of Pawan's three-entry mosque.
When Pawan witnessed Shahida entering the mosque and had to enter, the anxious Pawan suddenly stopped at the entrance of the mosque in the panoramic lens, switched to a low camera position to close-up his feet, the feet rose and fell in the camera and refused to fall, instead of using the mid-shot shot to show Pawan's hesitant look, at the urging of the Muslim man, close-up of his landing action, Pawan finally entered the mosque. The temple is the holiest place for religion, and pawan, as a pagan, enters the mosque with an intruder tendency in his heart, and for Pawan the rejection of the mosque is also a manifestation of loyalty to Hinduism.
And when Pawan finds Shahida in the prayer hall, the thick diamond-shaped window frame outside the mosque's prayer hall isolates Pawan, unlike the mosque gate, the prayer hall is a place where Muslims pray and is more sacred, and the window frame is not separated by Pawan individuals, but also symbolizes the gap between religions or pagans. When the camera shifts to the first point of view, through the diamond-shaped window frame, Shahida is in the middle of the frame, surrounded by countless Muslims, and under the front-and-back shot, the first-person perspective slowly advances towards the other party, and Pawan's inner shock and surprise are revealed.
The second time to enter the mosque is to enter pakistan in order to escape the police pursuit and seek shelter, looking down at the camera, Pawan who got up in the morning learned that he was in the mosque while shouting for Forgiveness while fleeing in a hurry, the dialogue with the old imam outside the mosque is a weapon to break the religious barrier in Pawan's heart, "the mosque welcomes everyone", and also paves the way for the follow-up Pawan to put down his prejudices and take the initiative to enter the mosque. When Pawan met Shahida in India, his first choice was to send him to the Hanuman Temple, while pawan, who was looking for no results in Pakistan, eventually chose to go into the mosque to pray for Shahida, "for the sake of Muni (Shahida), I am willing to go to any temple". Entering the mosque three times, from helplessness to active entry, Pawan as a representative of Hinduism, the misunderstanding and estrangement between religions are solved through pawan individuals.
Reconciliation of dual conflicts
As an Forrest Gump-like character, Pavan also plays an Forrest Gump-like reconciliation function throughout the film, if the "impossible reconciliation" brought by Forrest Gump has made up and soothed the inner cracks of American citizens, then Pavan has healed the Indian and Pakistani people who have suffered from the Indo-Pakistani war. When the film ends, the two peoples accept the call on the Internet to escort Pawan back home safely, the Himalayas contrast, the two peoples are spread over the sides of the mountain, the border line appears small and unstoppable under the large panoramic lens, the cheers resound throughout the mountains, the border line has crossed the border line resounded throughout another country, the crowd included officers representing two military forces, there was also a father who originally hated the other country, Rasika, and at that moment all the confrontations and conflicts were resolved under the feat of Pawanai. The united will of the people dissolves the national contradictions that run through the film, and the impossible reconciliation between the countries is reached.
The religious reconciliation is not only reflected in the change and contrast of mentality before and after Pawan's three entrances to the mosque, but also in the fact that Pawan finally bids farewell to his fellow Muslims with Muslim etiquette, as the embodiment and representative of Hinduism, pawan's acceptance of Islam is the most important embodiment of this, and behind this is the understanding and respect among pagans. For Pawan, his journey to send Shahida home is more like the guidance and test of God in the religious sense, and when Pawan successfully completes the task entrusted by God and returns to his kingdom full of scars, his soul has been sublimated, and he has become the representative of God in the true sense.
The director adopts the character construction method of tough guy Jia Loli, which creates a contrast between the characters representing the two countries and two religious beliefs, resolves the conflicts and contrasts between the characters, and softens the original sharp national and religious conflicts. Just as Pawan's original shock and anger, who witnessed Shahida praying at the mosque, dissipated under Shahida's sudden embrace and replaced by a gentle response, Shahida's innocent smile in slow motion removed the edges and corners of Pawan's anger, and the conflict was impossible.