The hard way to modern India

Felix 2022-03-09 08:01:41

When a country makes a film that can openly reflect on its public power system, it itself means that the country has entered a system of democratization. Whether it's American dramas, or Korean and Taiwanese movies are typical. Film, as a modern visual communication tool, is like the rituals and daily folk dramas that were regularly held in ancestral temples in ancient times. It has the function of training people's behavior, thereby strengthening the established behavioral values ​​of a community organization. the goal of. Confucius said, "Implementing government is also doing government." If ancient dramas play the role of loyal ministers and filial sons to maintain the power of fathers and parents, then in modern Indian films, the re-enactment of Spring and Autumn revenge stories is not only a wake-up call to citizens’ original blood-based view of justice. More importantly, let the people reflect on whether the government's administrative system is credible. Whether it is credible or not, when this kind of thinking is activated in the minds of the people, it already means that the popular science education of modern democratic politics has been successful.

The key link of the film is the lack of evidence materials after being sexually assaulted, and the lack of evidence materials stems from the fact that they were imprisoned and thrown into sea water and lost key sexual assault evidence sampling. Putting aside the collusion between officials and bandits, in terms of evidence, there is really nothing that can be done. In other words, if the story is switched, and the link of collusion and bribery aside, the husband and wife fail to keep the evidence for various reasons, then the result may also be nothing. Because modern law itself relies on the chain of evidence, rather than individual feelings, to make legal judgments.

From this, we can recall what is law, and what is the environment in which law arises?

In the mouths of irresponsible jurists, they can outline the history of law for a long time, and wish that punishments have become law since the beginning of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. But in fact, ancient law and modern law are fundamentally unrelated . Jurisprudence based on evidence as the core is a product of modern society. The laws of ancient society were themselves religious and ethnic rules. And that's at the heart of our understanding of the story. We can clearly divide ancient and modern laws as follows:

The laws of antiquity were themselves linked to religious authority and fixed community life. Who will uphold justice? It is a patriarch or religious leader. The area under his jurisdiction is a small village with the same surname or common religious belief. The village is different from modern cities. His population is extremely limited, and it is a society of acquaintances. The justice of the patriarch and the religious judge is not based on evidence. , but is based on familiarity with each person's character and primitive morality. If the case of the film is in a traditional Indian society, whether it is a Hindu priest or an imam in a Muslim society, the combination of administration and judiciary will be based directly on the sexual assault of the couple and the youth in the village who are alcoholic and troubled. Character understanding and judgment, a person's character is the undoubted evidence, a large number of various ancient judicial documents of "examination of sincerity and view of one's will, view of sound and appearance" are examples, no longer need any external modern judicial The chain of evidence, for the continuation of this independent small community, its own religious and judicial authority and absolute administrative power, will not take bribes, and soon the rapist in this case will be punished by stoning to death. deal with.

Modern laws are based on the product of population mobility. Although the ancient law seems reasonable, as noted above, note that he is asking for an absolutely small blood or religious community, and what he is asking is that people be bound by restricted mobility in this self-sufficiency, from food to barbers. In a well-stocked small community. In Plato's words, a person outside the city is either a beast or an angel. People cannot exist without the city-state, and being separated from the city-state means there is no security. The reason why we can move, travel, and emigrate across regions is based on the existence of generally consistent judicial rules, police systems, surveillance systems, public hospitals, and various public jobs in the country. In ancient times, breaking away from the city-state meant that thugs ran rampant, committed mischief, had no shelter, no relief, lost land, and faced uncertain dangers at any time. Therefore, in ancient society, towns were not a symbol of social development, but a place of refugees and violence. As far as India is concerned, it is not completely divorced from the order of ancient society at present. Except for the major cities of Delhi, Bangalore, Calcutta, and Mumbai, a large number of areas are still a small traditional religious society. Therefore, the couple decided to move in the movie. In fact, the almost dreamy depiction of India in the first half hour is basically unrealistic, because India's own social rules are still community rules, and the above set of modern social security guarantees for random population movement have not been established. system, people can feel safe only in their own ethnic and religious community.

So the scene set in the film is intriguing. Let's recall the two men and women. In the film, the heroine is set as an orphan without any relatives and family members, and the male protagonist also does not have any family members and relatives. At most, there are only some neighbors, and after the violation, the film is set up without any relatives to help, and the two can only rely on the Indian judicial system that they think should work reasonably. In the environment where they live, the main characters are not only Hindus, but also Muslims living in the period selling meat for a living. There is a modern judicial system and public police, but it is basically in a state of chaos. Even we found an interesting part, when the Muslim father was stabbed by an Indian boy on the roof of the mosque, there was no religious conflict. It seems that no Muslims paid blood for their brother at all, which means that this Not only the hero and heroine of the story, but all the people living in this area are in a state of loose sand and atoms. Religion has become a purely personal belief rather than a community protected by community insurance. When the protection of religious communities fails, fair justice and a modern political system are not established, this is the absolutely chaotic time and space setting in the story. Then, the only thing that individuals can rely on is the execution of lynchings, so it is no surprise.

This means that what the film sets is the process of the transformation of individuals scattered from the ancient social organization to the modern society.

In fact, this transitional environment is the status quo in India. A small number of people hope to become individuals in modern society, but Indian society has not established the security guarantees that can maintain these attempts to flow into the modern social order. Therefore, it is difficult for India to be like China, where a large number of rural people flow into the central cities of various regions for industrial production, because for them, only by living in the original community organization can they be safe. Once you leave the original community, as we all imagined, like a foreign tourist coming to India, you will face a society of robbery, rape, wage deduction, weak police, and ineffective justice at any time. Anyone will feel uneasy and fearful, then I might as well continue to live in my village, at least the safety can be guaranteed.

In the film's almost dramatic performers, the villains are set up as legislators, the legislator's arrogant younger brother, and the corrupt police system. The scene of the story revolves around a point where officials protect and condone the tyrannical and powerful, which have been played out countless times in Chinese history. However, just such a story of an official and an official who has been performed countless times in classical dramas and a man at the bottom has almost disappeared from our contemporary vision. Why? Because when the modern government pursues universal governance and establishes universal law along with it, there is no need to shape the story of "revenge". In China, the typical reflection on public power and the use of "lynching" to complete revenge, I am afraid only in In Jia Zhangke's films, you can only see them in forbidden films such as "Apocalypse". Without exception, such stories mostly take place in county towns such as Shanxi, which are similar to the 18th-tier towns in Indian movies that have lost the protection of blood relatives with the same surname in the village and lacked an environment of open justice.

Ultimately, do we need lynch revenge to respond? I think this question is not about an individual, but about the society you live in. What kind of social stage is he in? When he chooses to establish a modern industrialized system and capitalist production, does he provide the people with the corresponding mobility? Safety and security, when he called on the local gdp index to increase and hope to move towards a modern country, did he guarantee the people's medical power, education power, food safety. The living environment of raising young children in living cities. Just as, for most people, the danger occurs, the return to the old order, the return to the old religious values, the clan village, the nostalgia of the old order, concept and social protection system, of course, they can think of. However, it is inevitable to move towards a modern society. Our problem is not to call on religion to solve it, nor to hope to revive the Confucian system that relies on Chinese philosophy. All we can choose is to move forward with modern governance without hesitation. Reflect on the loopholes in our regulation of order, and consider whether our system has problems in securing basic rights. rather than just wishing to return to the safe caves of ancient times.

Of course, if those in power no longer think from this perspective, then the public will obviously not have such a rational analysis as I do. The only message they receive after watching the movie is: lynching against violence, natural justice. The so-called let the darkness light up the darkness.

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  • Charlene 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    There are so many black films in India. . It can only be said that the Indian government and the Indian film regulatory authorities have a really big heart. .

  • Issac 2022-03-17 09:01:10

    How sweet it is for you at the beginning, how miserable it is at the end. The portrayal of villains is too face-to-face, the so-called high-IQ crimes really can't stand scrutiny, and the villain really needs to be very brainless to succeed. The only villain with online IQ and reasonable actions is the sheriff. But the angry slogans are still hated by the people, and all living beings are blind. PS: The female protagonist is super beautiful, and the male protagonist has 2 thumbs! !

Kaabil quotes

  • Supriya Bhatnagar: You completed what you said, Rohan. Now enough. Get back to work. Get back to your life, Rohan.

    Rohan Bhatnagar: No, Su. A lot of work is left yet. This story is far from over.

  • Rohan Bhatnagar: [confronting Inspector Chaube, after the police failed to protect his wife] If your law system had helped me, I wouldn't have to do anything. Now, I'll have to...

    Inspector Chaubey: You think our eyes will be closed?

    Rohan Bhatnagar: Your eyes will be open, but you won't be able to see anything. Your ears will be open, but you won't be able to hear anything. You will try to speak, but you won't be able to say anything. And most importantly... you'll figure everything out, but you won't be able to explain it to anyone.