India, a magical country.
In the case that China's domestic vaccines have been widely vaccinated and the epidemic has been well controlled, more than 300,000 new cases have been added every day for eight consecutive days, more than the total number of other countries combined, setting a new record for the highest number of new additions in a single day since the outbreak of the epidemic.
The soaring death toll has left India's funeral industry on the brink of collapse, with large crematoriums overloaded.
Many lower caste people at the bottom have chosen to burn their dead relatives directly on the street.
If there really is a human purgatory, then India is now.
But it seems that this country has always been particularly good at making fun of suffering, and Bollywood has always made some comedies to satirize the various ills that exist in its own country.
For example, what "Three Fools Bollywood", "Little Lori's Monkey God Uncle", "Even Drop God", "Toilet Hero" and the like have satirized the caste problems, education problems, religious problems, and health problems that exist in Indian society.
This is really convincing.
No, there is another film that starts from the perspective of a small person, satirizes Indian health habits, caste system, election corruption and other bad habits through comedy, and completely "humiliates" the country
The Barber of Destiny
It is not an exaggeration at all, this movie is simply my top 1 comedy of the year, laughing so much that I am in good spirits in the middle of the night.
The director's name is Jogi Bab, and he is an actor by birth, and "The Barber of Destiny" is his debut film.
Joggy also starred in the film as the male protagonist, a low-caste barber named "Smiley Face".
The story takes place in a village in India called Cholianguri.
Qiu Lianguli, this name sounds like a tall feeling, I feel that if there is no small bridge here, everyone is sorry for this name.
But, don't forget, this is in India.
Sure enough, the film begins with a dark grove of villagers preparing to untie their hands in the light of nature.
Naturally, they don't have such a thing as hand paper.
As a result, he had just taken off half of his pants and squatted down, and he sat on a man's head.
He turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone and took a picture, good fellow, it was like a ten-sided ambush, and there was a person crouching next to almost every tree.
The next day, the inauguration of the village's first public toilet, under the impetus of the village chief, was about to begin (in fact, it was a squat pit).
It was supposed to be a happy thing, but the people of the South Village and the North Village quarreled again.
The boss of the north village, "Abei", said that the toilet was built in the north, so people in the south could not use it.
The boss of Nancun, "Anan", said that the public toilet is that anyone can use it, and it is built in the east, west, south and north.
An enthusiastic villager in the North Village asked, "Then why don't the schools built in the South Village give it to the children of the North Village?" ”
The villagers of Nancun were not happy and spoke passionately:
At this time, the old village chief appeared, and the big wife of his north village and the little wife of the south village blamed him for not assigning the oily and watery errand of building a school and repairing toilets to his son.
It turned out that Ah Bei and A Nan were two half-brothers.
The reason why the village chief did not entrust the project to his two sons was actually afraid that the north and south villages would hurt the harmony (which did not exist in the first place) and cause a contradiction (which was already very large).
The reason why he only built a toilet was that he wanted people on both sides to meet friends with toilets.
However, as soon as he arrived at the scene of the ceremony, he found that the people on both sides had already been sword-fighting.
Good fellow, the village chief saw that both sides had to go to the toilet first, so he decided to go first, and before he could take a step, a dog came out of the toilet.
You can't let the noble village chief use his dog to go to the toilet that has not been flushed, right?
Someone has to go in and clean up, so who is this lucky one?
When I saw that the people on both sides were going to fight because of who went to clean the toilet, a clever villager remembered: Let the "smile" that neither side wants to do it!
In this way, our humble protagonist appears.
The male protagonist is called Smiley, because his lips can't close properly, and he always looks like he's smiling, so everyone calls him Smile, but more often than not, they call him stupid.
He has a child named "Sideburns" by his side, and the two make a living as wild barbers.
He did not have any complaints about cleaning the toilet, after all, everyone did not treat him as a person on weekdays, and the toilet was cleaned quickly.
As a result, as soon as the village chief entered, the people on both sides fought, and the village chief without a hand paper fainted inside.
In this way, it took a long time for the village chief to be carried out, and the toilet that had just been built was smashed by the villagers.
At this time, the "smiling faces" and "sideburns" at the bottom of the food chain are not even qualified to participate in the war, and can only sit and watch the battle, and cannot applaud.
Usually, they didn't have any serious place to live, so they camped under a big tree.
And they get a haircut, they can hardly receive money, and anyone can scold and grin at them while bargaining wildly.
Saying that it is bargaining is actually not giving money, just give a bowl of porridge to get, which is the barber, this is clearly to eat.
Moreover, when the smiley face came to the door, it was not qualified to go to the front door, and it could only enter from the back, and on weekdays, it was necessary to buy various things and run all kinds of legs for the brazen villagers.
However, fortunately, there was no rent, and there was no money for eating, so the two still saved some money.
After an aggressive theft, Smiley Face and Sideburns decided to deposit the money in the village's newly opened post office.
However, the only salesman in the post office, this kind little sister, said that he had to have an ID card to save money.
Smiley shook his head and said okay, so I'll go back and get it.
At this time, the sideburns reminded him, dude, we don't even have a serious name, where is the ID card.
There is no way but to do it.
But to apply for an ID card requires a ration card, to apply for a ration card requires a voter card, to apply for a voter card needs an ID card...
The little sister has no choice, can only say that she can re-make up a name to get an ID card.
The name "Nelson Mandela" was chosen.
The historical Mandela, the first black president, is revered as the "Father of the Nation of South Africa", an active anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of the Spear of Nations, the armed organization of the African National Congress.
The little sister and the smiling face naturally did not know where Mandela was sacred, but only thought that the name was good, so they chose it.
The film is arranged in this way, in addition to forming a comedic effect, it is also quite meaningful, after all, the smiley face is the victim of the caste system.
At the same time that Smiley Face got his new name, Ah Bei and ANan began to quarrel again in order to run for the village chief.
Originally, it was a one-sentence thing, but because the village chief was unwilling to choose, he had to hold an election.
It was at this time that the councillor came to the door and wanted to spend money to get the village chief to agree to build a factory in the village, and if he agreed, it would be beneficial for fifty million rupees.
The village chief is old, and he is about to drive the crane west, and the two sons are naturally red-eyed and have an iron heart to fight, if they become the village chief, the benefits will be greatly reduced.
With two months to go until the election of the village chief, both sides began to do whatever it took, setting up the Coconut Gang in the North and the Road Roller Gang in the South, trying to win votes for themselves.
What bribes, let the villagers use their relatives to swear by poison, paste advertisements, threaten ah... I used everything I could.
All kinds of excuses and tricks were even used to fool qualified city voters and foreign voters back to vote. Villages were also blockaded and released after the elections were over.
In the end, the votes of both sides stayed at 341:340, with Anan leading by one vote.
Ah Bei's followers could not sit still and proposed to go to Nancun to kill a few people, wouldn't the problem be solved?
Ah Bei said, if you kill him, he won't kill you, killing and killing is all messed up.
Well, don't kill people, scare the seriously ill old lady in the village who is about to braid.
As a result, the killer jumped into the courtyard of the old lady's house to find that the group of people in the South Village had already fully protected the old lady.
It's called defeating magic with magic.
Seeing that the plan was about to fail, the old man who gave the old lady a blow began to talk to the old lady:
"You have to live and vote for the right people."
"Rest assured, I will definitely vote for Rama Chandran."
The little brother said that Chandland has been dead for thirty years, what fart do you put in.
The fanatical fan old lady listened, was stimulated, and braided.
Yes, the vote was flat.
Just when the two sides were at a loss, a voter card appeared —
"Nelson Mandela."
That's right, the smiling voter ID.
Is this voter card? This is clearly not a lot of money!
At first, Abei and Anan, who could not see the "smiley face", had already killed the red eye at this time, and the battle for the smiley face officially began.
No one called him a fool anymore, everyone called him Mandela.
You send a new mirror and I send a massage chair.
You send clothes and watches, and I send designer sunglasses.
You built a barber shop for Smiley Face, and I'll give the barber shop a luxurious decoration.
In order to get the smile ticket, the villagers began to send him food, furniture and appliances, and no one dared to bargain and let him do the hard work.
The Smiley Face Master can cut whatever hairstyle he wants for them, but he has no choice.
There were countless villagers here who let the smiley face go through the back door, and Ah Bei's slap on the other side came up.
In an instant, the smiling face became the most honorable person in the village.
He realized that the later he made the decision, the more he got, so he kept saying that he didn't make a decision to get more benefits.
Here we find that no one is tempted by the benefits of money, not even the smiley face.
He began to change, to become greedy, lazy to eat, to be idle.
Abei and Anan began to lose patience and pulled smiling faces to meet the parliamentarians.
The congressman said carelessly that he did not care who was the village chief, as long as he agreed to build a factory, there would be three hundred million benefits.
It's three hundred million, not fifty million.
Abei Anan went completely mad, and they began to auction the votes for the smiley face, and they lost their homes for it.
Once one side fails, the other side is ready to cut off one of the smiling faces, otherwise it will be too faceless.
Seeing that the vote had already fetched a high price of Rs 12.5 million, the sideburns who learned of this gossip began to save the smiley face, lying that the old village chief was dead, and taking advantage of the chaos to escape with the smiley face.
As a result, they did not run away, both of them were beaten half to death, their sideburns were unconscious, and they cried out for their lives.
Smiley was anxious and began to tell Anand and Abei whoever sent the sideburns to the hospital would vote for whom.
At first, both of them rushed to go, but in the end, no one went, or the post office sister called an ambulance to save the life of the sideburns.
The little sister was very angry with the smiling face and began to scold him, what an honest person he had been, but now he had become like this, and almost killed his friend.
The smiling face of the gray face prepares to cut herself off, and a girl in the grove asks smile if she can use the vote to fix the toilet so that the girls don't have to be close to nature.
Hearing this advice, the smile was enlightened.
He first asked Abei to repair the toilet, and then asked Anand to repair the school...
In this way, in order to win the election, Abei Anan went bankrupt to meet the requirements of the smile, and the original backward village gradually took shape, with toilets, schools, water supply roads, and even street lamps, and the villagers were more and more grateful for the smiling faces.
They have all gotten what they want, no one cares who will become the village chief in the end, and whoever chooses or not is at will.
Finally, on the day of the official election, Abei won, and Anan became angry and ordered the smiley face to be hacked to death.
At this time, the old village chief and the villagers all stood in front of the smiling faces to protect him, and the film ended.
"The Barber of Destiny" does not say who became the village chief in the end, which is not important, what is important is that the villagers of the north and south villages came together to protect the smiling faces, and the old village chief can be at ease (no).
This movie can be said to be very funny, and the criticism of reality is also very powerful while being witty and absurd, after all, the trick behind the so-called democratic election in reality will only be more serious and absurd.
Although the actors in the film are not big stars, their acting skills are very solid, especially the smiling faces, and the acting is called a smooth.
From the initial cringe and shrinking, to the insatiable greed in the back, to the final sincere payment, it is very natural and not pretentious.
But there's a problem with the film, and that's that the back-and-forth turns are too blunt.
Was scolded by the little sister and changed the previous wrong? Even if coupled with the injury of a good friend's sideburns, it still seems to be underpowered, and it is perfect to add a little credibility to this part of the turn.
In short, "The Barber of Destiny", as my best comedy of the year, laughed and watched the whole time, and after watching it, it can be contemplative, which is really worth watching.
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