I have to say that "My God" is an excellent movie that is delayed by the title. Its English title is "pk", but it has become very tacky in translation, and it is also translated as "Alien Drunkard pk Earth God". This aside, the movie story of "My God" is a wonderful one, expressing a wealth of ideas in a very interesting form. Next, let's talk about this movie in depth.
The viewing experience of the movie "My God" is undoubtedly great, and there are many comedy scenes in the whole film, which will make people laugh from time to time. I thoroughly enjoyed the viewing process. But at the same time, I also feel the anger of the creators.
Many people think that comedy is funny, and the creator of comedy must also be a humorous person. Not really. Good comedy, its core is full of anger. Why?
Laughter is a satire of the absurd. Comedy creators are often idealists, and after they see all kinds of absurdities in society, their hearts are full of anger and frustration. However, they know that if you simply spit on society, no one is interested. So they used the absurdity of comedy to package anger and discontent. To make a good comedy, the first question to consider is, what are you angry about? Try to observe talk shows like "Spit Conference", the audience is laughing, but the talk show actors are full of angry attacks, one after another.
Understand this, and then taste the comedy of "My God", you will see the anger and dissatisfaction of the creators. Among them, the hypocrisy of religious believers and the hypocrisy of human society are the targets of the creators' criticism of irony.
The protagonist is an alien who comes to Earth naked, but the remote control of the alien spaceship is stolen, leaving him unable to return home. Later, he learned under the guidance of the Indian people that God could help him. So he went to ask God, and who knew that a series of ridiculous acts occurred. He took the coconut to the Christian church, he took the wine to the Muslims... Unaware of the rules and taboos of various religions, he was chased by believers of various religions.
These experiences look funny, but behind them are the creators' questions - why are there so many gods on earth? It is said that God is the only one, but what about the gods of other religions? What exactly is God?
In the process of integrating the alien protagonist into society, he also wonders about the various behaviors of humans. Why is human language so complex, it is not enough to listen to sentences, but also pay attention to tone and body language? Why do humans think it's not normal for people not to wear clothes, but they think it's normal for animals not to wear clothes? Why do humans argue that the money on the ground is their own, but they refuse that the condoms on the ground are their own? Why do humans so like to judge others by their appearance and clothing?
All these doubts of the alien protagonist are very funny in the movie, but behind it is the anger of the creators. It was anger at inconsistencies, dissatisfaction with hypocrisy. It is conceivable that there is an idealistic world in the mind of the creator, where people are simple, kind, and honest.
As for religion, he acknowledged that faith can give hope, but denied that believers brainwashed money and religious ritual rules, which were similar to Martin Luther's Reformation ideas. Compared with China, India's religious issues are indeed more complex and more likely to confuse creators. The violent conflict caused by defending faith is shown in the form of comedy in the film, but the reality is bound to be even crazier. Creators shout with comedy, shouldn't faith bring happiness and hope? Why did it turn into violent conflict?
The comedy of "My God" is excellent precisely because there is this anger supporting it. Excellent comedy is not the funny entertainment of variety shows, but a shout. In fact, many comedies now cannot reach the height of Stephen Chow, and it is precisely because of the lack of anger core. How many people laughed the first time they watched a star movie, but looked back years later and looked back on it bitterly? Comedy is a unique art.
The main story of "My God" is comedy, a satire on the hypocrisy of human society and religion. If the whole story is just that, then this movie can be called first-class, but it is difficult to reach the top. What really put the finishing touch to "My God" is actually a warm love story.
This combination of stories, in my opinion, is a "great leap forward" of imagination, which can be called a stroke of God. Because, the comedy wrapped in irony and anger, there is no strong causal connection with the love story. However, the film cleverly blends these two stories together, thus creating a very special artistic effect.
The film opens with the heroine's love affair in Belgium, where she falls in love with a young boy from Pakistan. However, the family objected, and the religious god stick also asserted that the boy was just a liar. The heroine wants to prove them wrong, so she asks the boy to marry him the next day. In the end, the boy did not appear.
When I saw the later comedies, while enjoying all kinds of satire and funny scenes, I also thought about what the opening love story was really useful. Unexpectedly, at the end, the film proves that the assertion of the original religious god stick is wrong through the fact that the young Pakistani and the heroine are still in love.
It turned out that the heroine had mistakenly received letters from others after she arrived at the church, and as a result, she thought that the boy did not have the courage to marry her. The letter was not signed. Later, after the Pakistani boy came to the church one step later, he picked up the letter, thinking that the heroine had left it to him. Because of a misunderstanding, neither of them contacted each other. Finally, in the scene of the debate between the alien protagonist and the religious god stick, this truth is finally revealed, and the lover breaks the mirror and reunites.
At this moment, the religious debate is probably no longer important, and the truth is moving.
Before I saw this, I was also wondering how this comedy full of irony and anger would end. I have thought of many possibilities, but most of them are very combative. I never thought that the film would respond to the contradiction between the protagonist and the religious god stick with love.
At first glance, it seems that the text is not right, it is obviously a debate between the protagonist and the religious god stick, but the protagonist uses the love story as an argument to refute, what if the Pakistani boy did not keep up the phone? From the logic of the debate, the protagonist's move is not reasonable.
However, this is also the origin of the beauty of the story. When the opponent carries a knife to the meeting, the protagonist sends a flower. Ending with a warm love story of irony, anger, and comedy of religious contradictions, this is a poetic combination of stories, with a feeling of "when is the time of enmity, a smile and a vendetta", with love to tolerate religious contradictions, the realm and intention are higher. Therefore, the love story is the finishing touch of "My God".
Needless to say, "My God" is a film full of changes, both in terms of plot and characters. It's a lot of fun to watch. Among them, the change of the protagonist is a design with deep meaning, full of irony and thought-provoking. This is another beautiful story design of "My God".
The protagonist first came to Earth naked, but later experienced all kinds of torture and suffering, learned how to survive in human society, and experienced the faith of God. It is reasonable to say that aliens descending on strange planets will inevitably not travel naked, and spacesuits will certainly be indispensable. But the design of "My God" as naked is a metaphor for a pure baby. In the process of contacting and learning the earth culture (mainly Indian culture), he witnessed the beauty, but also encountered hypocrisy, he was confused and overwhelmed, just like our youth.
He always stressed that on their planet they communicate directly through their minds, so they never lie. At the end of the movie, he lies. At that time, he fell in love with the heroine, but inadvertently discovered the love from the heroine's memory. So, he chose to let go and help the heroine reconcile with the Pakistani boy. Before leaving Earth, he takes the battery and tapes with him, and lies that they are the birds of Earth, traffic noise, etc., and the protagonist says that by listening to these tapes, he will miss Earth. In fact, those voices were all the voices of the heroine (I don't know when he recorded it). In the face of repeated questioning by the heroine, he still insists on lying and hiding his love.
Previously, the protagonist was a man who could not lie. In the end, he learned white lies. It's about compromise and growth.
It must be admitted that human society is very complex and the human heart is very complex. The creators do not blindly deny and attack this complexity, but recognize this complexity with the change of the protagonist.
Perhaps the creator yearns for such an ideal world of kindness, beauty and honesty, but the creator also knows that reality is reality, and growth is always accompanied by compromising with reality. Although the previous story uses the protagonist to make a bitter satire on human social and religious hypocrisy, the protagonist's behavior in the end reflects a helpless compromise. This leads to the question, what is right and what is wrong?
If the protagonist initially thought the ideal world was right, then why did he learn to lie? It seems like a small lie, but behind it means wavering and change. Thinking about it at a deeper level, although the film story seems to be a cause and effect closure, it throws up an open-ended question - if the ideal world is the other side that is difficult to reach, can it still be used as a criterion for judging right and wrong? Is the reality of compromise good or bad?
This film reflects the confusion of the creators to some extent. The complexity of human society is for a reason, not changed by human will, so how should individuals as human societies live by themselves? How to judge right or wrong? Perhaps, in the metaphor of "My God", as long as human beings cannot communicate directly through their minds, these complexities will always exist.
Perhaps to some people, the above seems to be a bit over-interpreted. But this is an extended reflection on the subject's experience of change, comedy and love. I think it fits my understanding and is not deliberately interpreted. In fact, the content that "My God" wants to express is very rich, often with heuristic story design, so it is normal for the audience to have divergent thinking.
In my opinion, "My God" is a feast for food - the dialectic and collision of ideas and concepts, the intermingling of comedy, emotion, characters, and plots, coupled with the imaginative story combination and the excellent performance of the actors... In addition to the title translation, I have no other dissatisfaction and are very recommendable to watch the movie.