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At the beginning of the year, I made a movie starring "Andy Lau of India", Aamir Khan, based on the true story of "Wrestling, Dad!" After waiting for a few months to finally be released in China, I immediately bought tickets to see it on the weekend, and more than 2 hours still feel unfinished.
I don't know why every time I see the name of this movie, it reminds me of the same inspirational male god Peng Yuyan's "Roll Over, Ashin!" 》。 They are all muscle men, they are all sports films, they are all the same counterattack routines, and they all see me blurred with tears. Maybe it's because I used to be an athlete and have a soft spot for this type of movie.
Wrestle, Daddy! After the release of "Douban", douban's rating has slipped from 9.6 to 9.2. I've seen a lot of reviews and film critics criticizing the film. It is said that the father played by Aamir Khan is a straight male cancer, and he imposes his personal desires on his children, so that the children lose their childhood and bear the pain that they should bear at this age, so as to complete the unfinished dreams of their fathers, and in the name of liberating Indian women.
In fact, when the movie first opened, in the first ten minutes, I also had this feeling. When Dad forced his two daughters to practice wrestling, when he forced them to cut their long hair, when he forced them to compete with male athletes. I feel like this is a live-off "domineering president", stubborn, arbitrary, selfish.
But as the plot unfolded, I found that my understanding was too superficial. As for whether Amir Khan played straight male cancer, I don't comment on it, because everyone has a different perspective of understanding. I want to mention his daughter. In India, where women are humble to the point of dust, girls are despised and cursed from birth. There is a very vicious curse in India that is "May you have a daughter", which is equivalent to the domestic "may you cut off your children and grandchildren".
Women in India have no sense of security to speak of, they do not receive education, they do not enjoy fair treatment, many girls are married to men they have never met in their teens, and then they spend their whole lives around pots and pans to teach their husbands and children.
That is their destiny. If the two daughters in the movie were not because their father stubbornly helped them plan the future, perhaps they really did not have the opportunity to change their fate. This wrestler father, although he did not ask his daughter's consent, let them practice wrestling, let them endure the shame of the whole village, let them say goodbye to a happy childhood, it seems that the father is a straight male cancer. He made this decision after discovering his daughter's talent. It is precisely because of such an opportunity that his daughter has the opportunity to choose her own future.
Indian teenage girls were gang-raped on a bus and raped by the police, and in a society where women are not respected, they have little chance of changing their fate in this country without their father's tough intervention in their future. The father has always insisted on his own principles, and he does not let children listen to the tactical arrangements of the national team coach, on the one hand, showing his self-confidence, on the other hand, symbolizing resistance to the conformist system.
The child's mother said, "You let them practice wrestling, who will dare to marry them later," while the father replied, "I don't want them to choose men, I want men to choose them." In fact, dad is just a guide for two children, and when he forces his daughters to jump into the river, he says to them, "Don't always expect dad to help you, you need to rely on yourself." This was confirmed by the daughter at the final of the Commonwealth Games. Dad was locked in the storage room by the villain coach and could not direct his daughter on the spot. The daughter did not have her father in the rear, and finally relied on her own efforts to win the first women's wrestling gold medal in Indian history. Gained people's respect.
And before the game, dad once told his daughter that we came all the way, not for ourselves, but for those girls, we are enemies of all people, against all the traditional ideas that oppose us, we want to set an example for those women of humble status, and you are on the mission of changing the fate of the country. If you win, the victory will not only belong to you, but also to thousands of Indian girls, telling them that women have other ways out and breaking all the prejudices inherent in women. In this paragraph, we can see the national honor and sense of justice in my father. This is also the most powerful response to those who say that their father's three views are not correct.
The film reflects several very real problems in India:
1, the issue of sexism, which is talking about such a national phenomenon from beginning to end, how women who are not valued should face their future, and how to change the future through their own efforts. 2, the official inaction problem, Dad went to the Sports Bureau to apply for sponsorship when he was ridiculed and ruthlessly ridiculed by the non-performing officials. The incompetence of the national team coach and the taking of the credit to him reflect the truth that India, as a populous country, has not been able to become a sports powerhouse. 3, religious non-integration problems, such as fathers in order to help their children increase nutrition, let them eat chicken, and mothers because of their belief in vegetarian food can not accept. There is also the traditional conservative custom that if your daughter is cut off by her father's long hair, she will be discriminated against by the locals, which is equivalent to the severity of a sex reassignment surgery.
Therefore, Aamir Khan's film can get unanimous praise from all over the world, not because it is just an inspirational film, but because she truly reflects the Indian national conditions, dares to expose the truth of the problem, and tears open the scars of the country. He hopes to change the bad situation through his own efforts.
Throughout the films made by Aamir Khan, although there are not many, they are all excellent. In addition to his own inspirational experience, excellent acting skills. More because he has strict requirements for choosing a script, every film he has made for so many years is exposing the scars of the country and reflecting the problems of the country.
The colonial problem was exposed in the 2002 film Once Upon a Time in India, in which he was a producer and starring, which not only showed the world The game of Indian song and cricket, but also had a deep problem of unreservedly spitting on British colonists and the colonial system. His first film as a producer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film that year.
In 2006 and 2008, his two films, Unknown Death and Destruction for Love, began to focus on another real social problem in India, including the problem that religion has always been unable to coexist peacefully and completely integrate, the problem that women's rights cannot be guaranteed, and the issue that the caste system is the biggest obstacle to the free love of men and women. Amir Khan himself was a challenger, and Amir fell in love with the girl of the neighbor's family when he was 21 years old, but due to different religious beliefs, the parents of both parties were firmly opposed to the marriage, so Amir decided to elope.
The two films of 2007 and 2009", "Stars on Earth", "Three Fools in Bollywood", Amir Khan continued to expose the scars of the country from another angle, both films reflected the education problems of children, the college entrance examination in India is also the only channel to change the caste, their single wooden bridge is narrower than ours, test-taking education is the whole nightmare of their childhood, he uses movies to attack the college entrance examination and cramming education.
And his last film, 2014's "Pk," once again exposed the problem of the non-integration of various religions, cultures, and customs in India. Although most of his films are very happy, with laughter and tears, but carefully tasted, each film has a deep moral.
Amir Khan said: "Filming is not made to cater to anyone. In fact, when you make a film that has a certain critical significance for your country, it has a crucial meaning for the country. So criticizing ourselves and our country is the first step in our progress. There is no need to be ashamed that our homeland is in the spotlight, what should be ashamed is that our country is deficient in that regard. ”
In fact, in addition to movies, Amir Khan is also doing a lot of public welfare things through his influence, and he hopes to really bring some changes to this country through his own efforts.
In 2012, he and his wife produced a talk show, "Truth Investigation," which aired for three seasons in a row, which reflected the current situation and true emotions of people from different classes of People in India, putting the dark side of society in the spotlight and showing people in front of people. In the program, he talks about various problems in Indian society: female infanticide, child sexual abuse, huge dowries, domestic violence, caste system, etc. Each episode is poking at the ugliest and most painful scars of Indian society. He put the truth clearly before every Indian.
He said the reason for making the show: although he himself has a successful career, a happy life, and the sufferings of others, it seems that he has nothing to do with him, but no one is an island. A series of events that connect everyone in society. Everyone can't escape. Everyone has a responsibility. Everyone has a choice. So he chose to stand up. What is even more valuable is that in the face of various serious social problems and fierce clashes of views, Amir Khan has always maintained a restrained attitude. On the show, he often wipes away tears and comforts the hurt with hugs, but he is not angry, does not accuse, and does not incite emotions.
Because of the show's social impact, Amir Khan was also featured on the cover of the Asian edition of Time Magazine in September 2012, and was again on the cover in 2013 as one of the top 100 people of the year, known as "The Conscience of India". After the episode on child abuse was broadcast, Amir Khan was invited to testify before Congress and successfully got Parliament to pass the Child Protection Act, which shows the great impact of the program. He is a member of Teach India, a prominent Indian non-governmental organization that works to give children from all walks of life in India, including "dalits," the right to education.
He did not think of himself as just an actor, but hoped to use the advantages of his profession to call on society to pay attention to national issues and truly change the status quo. And without sparing any effort to practice, it is really not an exaggeration to call him India's "national treasure actor".
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