During the epidemic period, less going out, more staying at home, to give everyone a review of an Indian movie - "Mysterious Superstar".
"Mysterious Superstar" - Aamir Khan, another film reflecting Indian feminism after "Wrestle, Daddy", reflects the shortcomings of the unequal society of men and women in India by telling the frustrations and gains encountered by a little girl in the process of chasing her musical dreams.
The article will comment on five aspects: "Synopsis of the Story", "The Image of the Mother Successfully Shaped", "Several Deficiencies in the Film", "The Differences Between Uncle Mi's Two Feminist Films", and "The Significance of the Film".
"Mysterious Superstar" Douban scored 7.7, and nearly 200,000 netizens scored a high score of four stars and above
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > Story Introduction: The Persistence and Persistence of a Dream Girl</h1>
The heroine, Yin Xiya, has poor academic performance, irritable personality, and the self-righteousness of a teenager.
This is not a pleasing heroine setting, and even a little annoying. Many netizens' negative evaluations come from the heroine's selfish, insufficient and more than successful character, blame others for everything, and the attitude of losing when the classmate QinTeng runs out.
The heroine is grumpy, emotionally serious, and loses her classmate Qin Teng when she runs out, which is quite "cunning"
But it is such a girl who has no advantages in addition to singing well, which has supported this entire film and touched tens of millions of netizens.
Faced with her own musical dream, Yin Xiya never thought of giving up. Under the guidance and exhortation of her mother, she began to mask her face and prevent anyone from seeing her face, singing on the Internet. She met her own Bole and sang the theme song of the film and television, although the process was not so smooth, but the ending was good - her mother led her and her brother away from her father; the songs she sang swept the country, and she also won the trophy for best female singer...
As a musical film, the director did not adopt the form of a traditional Indian song and dance drama, but let Yin Xiya sing three songs completely by herself. From "Who Am I" to "My Lovely Mother" to "I Dance", each song is shocking, and Yin Xiya's emotional voice reveals the vicissitudes and thickness that do not match the age, which is a symbol of the desire for dreams in the hearts of timid and cowardly people.
If there is no dream, what is the difference between life and death, and what is the difference between dreaming and waking! This is a sentence that the heroine Yin Xiya and her mother have said.
Through the film, the director and screenwriter weave a beautiful dream for the audience, not only Yin Xiya's dream, but also the ideal of Indian feminism independence and freedom, and this ideal will one day be realized.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > successfully shaped the image of the mother: the freedom to dream, which is given by the mother. </h1>
The role of the mother in the film is very successful, weak but strong, and whenever she laughs, it feels like the whole computer screen is glowing. In her daughter's eyes, she is not smart, she is a cowardly woman who is content with fate. But she gave her daughter the greatest freedom she could.
The heroine's mother, Najma
As the female protagonist said at the award ceremony: "Whether it is singing or winning, it has always been my dream, but there are some people who are not allowed to dream, and the freedom to dream is given to me by my mother." ”
It's just that the film's treatment of the mother's transformation is a bit blunt. The film is 140 minutes long, and in the 100th minute, the mother is still a staunch advocate of fusalism; after 20 minutes of innocuous plot, the mother decides to lead the child away from her husband.
The director and screenwriter used the fact that "the father forced his daughter to lose the guitar that symbolized the dream" as the trigger for the rise of the mother, which was slightly abrupt and the recent quarrel with his daughter that "you should not be delusional to be out of touch with reality, we must go to Saudi Arabia with your father".
The heroine persuaded her mother to divorce her father, and the mother unswervingly expressed her reluctance to divorce, and followed her husband in this life
Traditional women's deep-rooted concept of "husband as heaven" should not be such a conflict can be completed, although there are several scenes of mothers silently staring at their daughters, but the portrayal of psychological activities still lacks strength, if you can carry more polishing, the effect will be better.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > several shortcomings of the film</h1>
So the question arises: how far are the female compatriots of India represented by Yin Xiya and their dreams?
It seems so far away, so far that anything can be an obstacle on the way to chasing dreams: a guitar, a computer, an exam, a locked iron gate, etc., too many small things can be a stumbling block in Yin Xiya's way forward.
A guitar that was cut by his father
But it seems to be very close, so close that as long as you insist, as long as you lose your temper when you are not happy, everything will have someone to cut thorns for you, pave the way, you just need to stubbornly go forward.
There is actually only one person in the film who really hinders Yin Xiya, and that is his father. As the epitome of Indian male power, the father played a dictatorial, gloomy and irritable and violent role in it, just like the men in the real India tens of millions of families, from the bones think that women are appendages, can be scolded at will, do not care about talent and dreams, just need to study well, to marry at the age of age, as for who to marry, can bring benefits to themselves, nothing else matters.
Gloomy and irritable father
And other people, are escorting Yin Xiya's dream-chasing journey, and are releasing kindness to the heroine:
Mother who stole her father's money to buy her guitar and necklaces to buy her computers;
Borrow a mobile phone, borrow notes, help plan the escape route to let the heroine go to Mumbai to record a song of the boy Chinteng;
Xena, the lawyer who drafts the divorce plan for the female protagonist's parents;
Tape up a broken computer and just want to give it to her brother as a gift;
Unseal the old past to the heroine so that the heroine does not remember the old aunt who hates her mother;
Chinteng has been trying his best to be good to the heroine
and Shakti, a music producer who selflessly helps because of his talent.
Shakti Kumar (Uncle Mi), a once-prestigious music producer, has his first impression on outsiders with his bohemian appearance and slippery tongue, but hidden in the depths of his soul is his helplessness — not that he does not want to show his kindness, but that he has been polished by society today. He is the most unkind good person in the whole film, giving the heroine the greatest tolerance and love:
When the heroine's audition failed, Shakti let her try again and again, and was even willing to calm down and listen to a 14-year-old junior high school student talk about music;
When the heroine asked him to introduce his ex-wife's divorce lawyer to know, he whispered an apology for the other party to meet the heroine, even if the other party was incompatible with himself, and the meeting would be noisy...
For the heroine, Shakti is a Bole, tapping the musical potential of the heroine; is a friend, sincerely planning the future for the heroine; more like a father, giving the heroine love and support.
Shakti, once a well-known musician, played by Amir Khan
This leads to a problem - the heroine's road to fame is too easy:
Posted a video on YouTube, and the next day the number of viewers exceeded 10,000;
The second song was sent, the number of views exceeded 40 million, and the number of likes and comments was no less than the Weibo data of domestic first-line stars...
After that, newspapers and television have column reports, and the speed of the heroine's fire is too fast, making people feel like they are at home. Including her final film and television song, she let the veteran musicians take the initiative to give up the medal of "Best Female Singer".
I don't know what the conditions or thresholds are for india's "Best Female Singer" selection, but it seems slightly inappropriate to let a newcomer who has only sung a few songs win such a weighty award.
The winner of the best female singer, gave up the award on the spot
We can't deny that the heroine has a talent for music, a clear voice, and feelings in place, but it is only talented. In the absence of early accumulation and network pushers, such a popular speed is a bit of a drama for an ordinary newcomer.
The overly powerful heroine aura makes this film lack expressiveness and appeal.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" > the difference between Uncle Mi's two feminist films</h1>
When "Mysterious Superstar" was released, the promotional slogan given by the media was "Uncle Mi followed "Wrestling!" Daddy" after another god work", but the evaluation of netizens on the two is quite different.
WrestleMania! "Daddy" won a high score of 9.0 on Douban, with more than 1 million people participating in the evaluation, while "Mysterious Superstar", a film that also reflects Indian feminism, only has a score of 7.7, and the reason is largely due to the "appeal of the film".
WrestleMania! "Daddy" began with the father forcing his daughter to practice wrestling, and finally the eldest daughter won the world championship, during which there was the children's resistance and understanding, there was the hardships before becoming famous and the conceit after success, there was the daughter's youthful vigor and the father's old age and twilight, there was the contradiction between the new (idealized) old (practical) two generations of wrestling concepts, and There was Uncle Mi's unwillingness and helplessness against the inaction of some officials under the current system in India...
WrestleMania! Daddy" The eldest daughter and father crossed paths
These settings make the characters come alive and full, the plot is tense, and several small dramatic conflicts push the story to the finale.
The audience's hearts are immersed in the film, with "empathy", they are heartbroken by the defeat of the eldest daughter's game, and they are happy because the game situation is clear, and the passion of fist to flesh has already ignited the enthusiasm of the audience. They sincerely hope that the eldest daughter can win the championship on behalf of India, and when the ending comes, the eldest daughter wins, and the Indian national anthem is played on the field, many spectators cry with joy, and even more bullet screens say: "It seems to be watching the Chinese Olympic Games." ”
WrestleMania! Daddy's eldest daughter won the world championship
"Mysterious Superstar", without these ups and downs, it did not arouse the "empathy" of the audience.
We have not been to India, and we cannot experience the pain and unwillingness of women in that land to survive. But only from the film, in addition to a father who loves domestic violence and prefers sons to daughters, the dream journey of Indian female compatriots does not seem to be so difficult.
It's easier than the North Drifters who live in the basement and eat boiled noodles, and it's easier than the group girls who are crawling in sweaty costumes.
As far as the shaping of "Dream Girl" is concerned, "Mysterious Superstar" is some failure, it does not have the "grievances, loss and bitterness" of the small characters in Star Ye's "King of Comedy", and even the chopstick brothers' "Old Boy's Raptor Across the River" The elderly youth's "empty enthusiasm but nowhere to go, a dream but can not be realized for a long time" is not comparable.
It lacks the sense of identity that small citizens are struggling to survive on the line of subsistence, and it lacks the pain and desperation before the butterfly breaks through the cocoon. It has always been bright, and in the classroom with few clear windows, the girl's musical dreams shine with color.
The classroom where the heroine Isia is in class
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="05" > film is not perfect, but it is very meaningful</h1>
Some people say that "Mysterious Superstar" is a "big pie" drawn by Uncle Mi for Indian women, and in reality, Indian women cannot succeed so easily. Admittedly, Yin Xiya's path to fame is somewhat simple, but the significance of the film is very profound.
Uncle Mi is like Prometheus in Greek mythology who dared to steal the fire for the people, speaking out for the right of Indian women to survive in his own way, "Mysterious Superstar" is not only a "big cake", it is also the epitome of the blueprint for the rise of women's rights in India, a bean in the dark, although faint, but truly illuminating an inch of the world.
When watching the film, it once reminded me of "I Am Not a Medicine God", they are all expressing hope for a better life with an idealized ending. In "Medicine God", the state developed "Glenin", domestic drugs replaced expensive imported drugs, Cheng Yong was released from prison, the haze dissipated, the sun poured down, everything in the future will become better; in reality, the state will incorporate several anti-cancer drugs into medical insurance, so that more people can afford to be sick. No one could have imagined that a movie could really make a difference.
In "Mysterious Superstar", her mother divorced her abusive father, and Yin Xiya won the title of "Best Female Singer", and the future is bright. Although for the real road of women's rights struggle in India, this is like a cup of water, but the spark of the stars can be a burning trend!
Perhaps, this is the direction that literary and artistic workers should strive for, no matter what the result, at least we have fought for it.
Overall, the concept of mother-daughter relationship, feminist status, equality between men and women, and chasing dreams that "Mysterious Superstar" tries to express, although slightly flawed, wins in the complete story, the actor's acting skills are online, and the meaning is thought-provoking, which is a good film, especially during the epidemic, it is more worth watching.