"Monsoon Wedding Banquet" is an Indian film that was released in the United States in 2002 and won the Golden Lion Award at the 58th Venice Film Festival. It tells the story of the Lalit family, who are about to marry their daughter, within four days before and after the wedding.
The story tells the intricate feelings of a family through a wedding banquet, and by the way shows the Indian streets and Indian culture in the early 21st century.
Shows a depth of humanistic concern.
【ambiguous】
What I like most is the ambiguous relationship between the foreman and the maid depicted in the movie.
At a moment when the air flow slowed down, Alice, the maid of the Lalit family, met Dubai, the contractor in charge of the wedding banquet. A glance provokes a feeling;
The dubai chatting among the co-workers was interrupted by Alice repeatedly. Alice said we wanted some ice, and then asked if we wanted to add water, ice water or tap water. Careful gestures showed a hesitant to speak.
On the hot Indian plain at night, the trees were lush and the insects were constantly chirping. An inexplicable impulse surged in Dubai's heart, and she couldn't help shouting Alice, who turned around, to thank her for the first time;
There was a sudden power outage, and Dubai was called to repair it. Alice held up a candle beside them. The candlelight reflected on the faces of the two of them. Then the light came on. Alice left. Silk is also thoughtful;
In the morning when the sun was shining on the banana tree outside the window, Dubai went to the kitchen to say hello to Alice, begged for water, gave her her own business card, and then looked at Alice's back and murmured "Tell me you love me", Alice carefully placed Dubai's business card on her chest. Dubai began to want to end "that lonely and wandering life", and wanted to "find a good woman with a simple mind" and be a live-in man;
Alice, who was cleaning, saw the bride's jewelry and couldn't help but pick it up and put it on her body. Dubai, who was working outside the window, saw this scene, and laughed with a row of white teeth in intoxication;
After the completion of the Dubai, he walked home in despair. His mother was chanting about marriage matters. He ran to the terrace without saying a word to be sad for the frustrated love. The lights in the city began to light up, and a flock of birds hovered in the purple sky.
Throughout the film, the feelings of the middle class represented by Lalit are full of desire and perfunctory deception, but the feelings of the lower-level characters represented by Dubai are pure, beautiful and simple. This line is so eloquently drawn that it makes people feel happy after seeing it.
【break】
Lalit's daughter Adit's wedding is an arranged type, and the groom, Haymont, who works in Houston, is highly educated and has a good family background, making him an ideal partner.
However, Adit is concerned about the TV anchor's lover, even if the other party already has a family.
So Adit is perfunctory and unhappy about the wedding process and has a lot of thoughts all day long;
Adit's cousin Lil's parents died young and she lived with the Adit family, dreaming of going abroad to further her studies, but when her uncle (Lalit) wanted to introduce Lil to the Taiga family who came back from abroad, Lil but was not very interested; and showed a strange affection for Taiga;
When Lalit worked hard to organize the wedding for Adit, he did not forget to send his son to a boarding school. He disliked his son doing nothing all day, not paying attention to his studies but immersed in dancing game TV shows. The son is dissatisfied, sad and angry, and refuses to communicate with his parents;
Lalit and his wife, Pimi, are separated from each other, and the two have devoted everything to the family, but they have long been too lazy to communicate with each other;
Adit told his fiancé, Haymont, about his relationship with the anchor, saying that he did not want a marriage to start based on lies. Even Haymont, who had stayed at sea, was furious when he heard that Adit was still seeing his old love during the wedding preparation;
The Lalit family is considered a middle class in India, with large villas, servants, fluent English, and many overseas relatives and friends. But in order to raise a wedding, Lalit is still in financial crisis, he has to plan carefully, and even go into debt. But the situation at home was a mess;
Seeing that Tyga was surrounded by her little cousin all day, Lil finally couldn't bear it anymore, and publicly revealed that she was violated by Tyga when she was young. Ralit is grateful to Tyga who once rescued the Lalit family from the brink of collapse. On the one hand is the niece brought up by himself, on the other hand is the eldest brother with grace, on the other hand is the family relationship that is about to explode, and on the other hand is the wedding banquet that is about to start, Lalit is in a dilemma.
The seemingly luxurious and lively wedding banquet is a surging river that appears to be smooth on the surface, and the bright and bright packaging cannot hide the deep inner contradictions.
The so-called family who love each other have their own difficulties to face. And those problems that are intertwined like threads are often beyond the scope of solution. So everyone was disappointed, angry, quarreling, and complaining.
【we’re family】
The 114-minute film takes 100 minutes to describe the fragmentation of a family under a wedding reception, but at the end it returns to harmony and unity with what Lalit said "I will do everything to protect them (the family)."
The wedding banquet was held normally, and the seemingly disorganized relatives did their best to devote themselves to their roles, with luminous cups of wine and wine, staggered chalices, singing and dancing, and gathered together happily.
Among the guests who come and go, some conflicts have been resolved, and some are unresolved, but this does not affect their sincere wishes for the newlyweds to have a sweet and happy life.
Everyone laughed, danced, sang, hugged and blessed. In 2000, the streets of India were full of black wires, people came and went, rows of old houses were soaked by rain, fruit stalls all over the street, movie pictorial full of the sense of age, tricycles, bicycles and cars came and went. Flow, women in sari, men in wrap skirts, crowded in chaos and noise. Beneath this, India, which loves color, is always surrounded by large expanses of bright red, yellow, and green, showing a bright old age.
In such an environment, a middle-class family slowly transforms at a wedding banquet, breaking the knot little by little, getting to know each other better, cherishing each other more, and understanding the meaning of family better.
Therefore, even if it rained heavily, it could not dampen everyone's enthusiasm. Instead, I was fortunate to have chosen a waterproof roof before.
In the final credits, the director wrote "for my family". She really understands the family in order to make such a delicate, warm and real family look.
Quarrels are bound to quarrel, estrangements will inevitably have estrangements, and outbreaks may break out. But it starts with love after all, so if family members still have love for each other, then no amount of difficulties can be overcome, no matter how many obstacles can be broken through, a family is still a family, united and loving 's family.
Just as Lalit couldn't help but say when he looked at the sleeping Adit: Sometimes when I look at them, I feel the love so strong that I can hardly stand it. How did they grow up so fast and when did we get old. As long as they live happily, I am willing to suffer all the pain in the world in exchange.
Also as Haymont said: I know it was an adventure for us to get married, but which one wasn't, we met at the behest of our parents or at a nightclub, what was the difference. I know we can both forget the past. We will get along and be happy.
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