India is an important film producing area in the world. In recent years, Indian films shown in China cinemas have attracted more and more attention.
Zhihu.
Indian movies continue to be popular at the box office in China, but they have Indian characteristics, such as dancing when a word disagrees. More importantly, Indian films have the courage to reflect some social problems in India. Then let's follow these movies to see what social problems India has.
0 1 education issues
Like many countries, India has both private and public schools. Private schools are the mainstream in India.
Public schools in India are free. But Indians, rich or poor, are reluctant to send their children to public schools.
India implements "voluntary sex education", and some poor parents don't even let their children go to school, let them do housework at home or even send them to do business. But all this is legal in India.
So what's the difference between private schools and public schools in India? Let's look at the starting line.
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The protagonist of the film is a nouveau riche couple. They are rich, but their education level is very low.
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Like parents all over the world, they want their daughters not to lose at the starting line.
They contributed money to send their daughters to various training courses, hoping that their daughters could be admitted to the best private schools. But they failed again and again.
Finally, in order to cheat the poor, the family moved to the slum. A farce began.
Private schools have a beautiful environment and the infrastructure is no less than that of five-star hotels. Fully air-conditioned classroom, pure European canteen. Even the swimming pool is constant temperature.
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School assignments are diversified, and teaching is not entirely for further study.
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They don't advocate rote learning. We usually learn knowledge by singing and dancing, and attach great importance to the cultivation of students' quality.
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I would like to ask such a good study condition, which parent does not squeeze his head to send his children in!
On the other hand, the infrastructure of public schools has not been completed. Some children go to school and sit on blankets without stools. The teacher is responsible for all the teaching subjects of the class.
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Basic health problems are worrying. The condition of the school toilet is very poor.
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Indian public schools have few students and teachers are very scarce. In addition, these children attending public schools 100% come from slums.
The two-level division of education leads to poor children or poor people, and rich children or rich people. This makes the class contradiction in India more and more serious.
02 language problems
English is very popular in India. Everyone is proud of speaking English.
English in India represents not only a language, but also a "class".
So how will Indians be treated if they don't speak English in India? Let's take a look at this inspirational blockbuster "Indian English".
Indian English
Shashi, the hostess, is not well educated and can't speak English.
She was abandoned by her husband.
The hostess does heavy housework at home every day and waits for her husband to come home.
But her husband won't talk to her.
Indian English
So is the daughter.
The school held a parent-teacher meeting, and my daughter would rather lie to the teacher that her mother was ill than let her appear in front of her classmates to embarrass her.
Indian English
Shashi once mistook "Jazz" for "Chaz".
Father and daughter smiled at each other as if Shashi were an outsider.
Indian English
Shashi came to America alone to help her relatives plan their wedding. She wants to change her destiny, and she wants to be respected by her family. She secretly signed up for an English training class, and finally practiced her oral English after all kinds of hardships.
When she spoke fluent English at the wedding, she immediately attracted everyone's attention. Especially her husband, was very shocked.
Indian English
Because of English, she was excluded; Also because of English, she is respected. How ironic?
Is a person's value reflected by the language he uses? This makes people reflect.
03 women's issues
As we all know, India is a country that values boys over girls.
The latest demographic data shows that the average ratio of male to female in India is 1000: 927. The ratio of male to female in New Delhi, the capital, is only 1000: 8 19, while in the southern part of New Delhi, where celebrities and rich people gather, the gap between male and female is the largest in India, and the ratio of male to female at birth reaches 1000: 762.
What absurd things will happen in a country where the ratio of men to women is so unbalanced?
Let's guess from the Indian movie A Country Without Women!
A country without women
The film begins with a brutal killing scene. A father personally drowned his newborn daughter in milk.
A country without women
It's Murder!
In this movie village, people give birth to their sons as babies, give birth to their daughters, and then abandon or kill them cruelly. For a long time, there were fewer and fewer women in the rose.
It has become a top priority for men in the village to marry their wives. Wang Wu, the rich man, has a son and a bachelor. Later, the rich man Lao Wang bought a girl to his house with 50 thousand yuan and five cows. This beautiful mushroom married Liang's five sons at the same time.
Pharaoh, the rich man, even enjoyed the girl's first night and the second night himself, and let his sons share the remaining five days equally.
A country without women
This is incredible!
However, the most disgusting thing about this movie is that the whole village man raped the hostess in the cowshed.
A country without women
India is a big rape country. In 20 12, a "bus gang rape" incident occurred in India that shocked the whole world. People all over the world began to pay attention to the frequent rape cases in India.
According to a public survey, 5 1% of men and 55% of women in India think that:
Domestic violence is justified in some cases.
Quoting Zhihu's last sentence, Obama said, "A nation that doesn't respect women is hopeless. A country that doesn't respect women will die sooner or later. People who don't respect women don't deserve to be called people. "
Every country will have corresponding social problems. These problems cannot be solved in a short time. But we are still glad that India dares to face up to social problems and complain about these situations in the form of movies.
Indian movies are inspiring, but they are also quietly changing the world.
Only by looking directly at the problem can we solve it better. Let's look forward to a better future for India!