A few years ago, I just watched the old film "Death Unknown" by India's conscience Aamir Khan in 2008. Indian movies always sing and dance for a few times. Even the tragic stories are still quite joyful. Considering that the Chinese New Year films are becoming more and more boring, you can consider watching Indian movies. (The rhythm of the movie is not good, but the story is still interesting. The song and dance MV is better than the Spring Festival Gala anyway.)
The film seems to increase the happiness of Chinese women. If people are unhappy, there are two solutions: one, the correct way to change the social status quo; two, the brain-dead way to change their minds. The former requires efforts from all sides, but there are many ways to change your mind. One of them is to visit the lives of people who are less fortunate than yourself, and you will immediately feel happier.
The happy places are all alike, and the unfortunate places vary according to the size and severity of the problem. When it comes to countries with low status of women, people around the world will probably immediately think of Africa and India.
Let’s talk about India. When the country mentions the three countries, it is immediately full of superiority. I feel that it is a poor and backward place, the status of women is much lower than in China, and rape cases are frequent. However, the above issues seem to be based on regional status and caste, and what is happening in the backward regions of the country is probably not better than India. We like to laugh at 100 steps in 50 steps.
If you are strong enough, Chinese girls have the right to choose not to marry or have children, but Indian girls do not. Hindus seem to think that women cannot escape reincarnation if they do not marry. This logic asks what Elizabeth of the suzerain country, the British Empire, should do. She is a virgin queen. Contrary to China, in most parts of China, the bride's family receives the betrothal gifts, while Indian girls need a generous dowry to marry, and the bride with insufficient dowry may be burned to death. It is not necessary not to marry, but to try to raise money. Some Chinese mothers-in-law are thinking about marrying (selling) their daughter into a wealthy family, but the most common way in Bollywood love movies is that the poor boy falls in love with the landlord's daughter, talks about love, dances, and marries the girl away. The reverse is not right. , because the woman cannot provide the corresponding dowry.
strong girl love
Let's talk about the topic, the movie tells a revenge story and interjects a sincere love story. The heroine in the film is a lively and beautiful girl. She works in an advertising company and is financially independent, but when it comes to dowry, she gritted her teeth. Back then, my uncles cheated my father's car, and my father was so angry that he would never marry until he bought three cars. People, anxious male protagonist.
In fact, the male protagonist is an out-and-out rich man, but he can only pretend to be a poor boy. Even if he doesn't care about dowry at all, the strong female protagonist is afraid that even if he saves a lifetime dowry, he will not be able to save a considerable amount to marry him. The heroine dropped a pie in the sky and won a house. She happily told the hero that we had a home and could get married, and dragged him to print the footprints of the two entering the new home for the first time. In fact, that's what the male protagonist's own company wants to give away in his company's activities. The male protagonist can only help her in this way.
The man was on a business trip and lied that he was out of money and wanted to go back to his hometown to sell his ancestral land. The woman sold the car that he had just bought and had been thinking about for so many years, saying, "I can buy the car again, but don't sell the land left by my ancestral." Of course, the domestic chicken soup article always mentioned that the test of whether a man loves a woman depends on whether he is willing to spend money for her. This Indian film is qualified, but the gender is changed. I am a person who hates chicken soup, and it is love to work hard. Is it due diligence before starting a company?
human trafficking
The rest of the film reflects on another social issue. The heroine rescued a group of girls on the train who had just had their kidneys taken out for organ trading and were about to be pulled by traffickers to sell to a brothel, and were killed for offending the gang. In the hospital, she angrily scolded the gang leader: Because of a beast like you, girls dare not go out. How many demons like you need women to beware of? Priest, doctor? At work, at school?
India is a country where ordinary women cannot live in safety, and human trafficking appears in this film. It will be miserable if you sell it to a brothel. Because of the caste legacy, the children of prostitutes will be inseparable from the brothel in the future. There are rapes that take place overtly and covertly, anywhere, just like the places of worship, hospitals, companies, schools mentioned in the second half of the heroine's words.
But there is Aamir Khan, a conscientious actor who dares to constantly expose social problems in India, and an actor who is also honest and responsible in our country...?
The Indian film in 2008 has been reflecting on the issue of trafficking in women; in 2009, our film "The Mountain" promoted the "positive energy" of the abducted and trafficked women who were moved and "stayed" to illuminate others. In Indian movies, gangsters are killed, and in ours, traffickers seem to be able to go unpunished and continue to benefit the mountains.
Maybe we can laugh at India in terms of women's social status, but we have lost in terms of reflection on film and television works.
indian daughter
In 2012, four years after the release of "Death Unknown", the world-shaking Delhi bus gang rape occurred. Jyoti Singh, a 23-year-old female medical student, was gang-raped and beaten to death. Mass demonstrations broke out among progressive people in India. Four adult defendants were sentenced to death (although the minor defendant was released from prison last year). The year before last year, the British BBC filmed a documentary called "India's Daughter", which was banned by the Indian authorities, but many Chinese have watched it (and I watched it at the time). The speeches of the upper echelons, the lawyers, the rapist, and the rapist's wife left a civilized audience dumbfounded.
China is very similar to India. Thousands of years of historical baggage, many traditions have turned into poison in modern times, and the ignorant people continue to pass the poison from generation to generation. China is indeed better than India, women have security. In fact, only developed areas in China have a good legal system, and women enjoy more financial and educational rights. But the mental oppression is the same everywhere. Immediately after a domestic rape case occurs, many people feel that there is something wrong with the woman herself. If she is harassed in the subway or in the company, it is probably because the woman dresses coquettishly. Chinese women are collectively forced to marry, forced to have children, discouraged from divorce, and spiritually imprisoned. In the eyes of traditional thinkers, their value continues to depreciate with age. Physical rape can be brought to the law in the eyes of others, but spiritual rape is not even aware of oneself.
Most of them are frogs in warm water. While lamenting that life is too tiring, they enter middle-aged and old age and use the same spirit to oppress and educate the next generation of daughters and daughters-in-law. Just like the wife of the rapist in "India's Daughter", she doesn't know that her traditional thinking has harmed herself.
Writing about India by me, who has never lived in India and doesn’t understand Hindi (the official languages of India are English and Hindi), is completely a mistake and cannot be unbiased. Comments and corrections are welcome.
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