"Mystery Superstar" is an Indian film that was released in China in January 2018. After only four days of release, the domestic theater box office exceeded 200 million. To achieve such results, it can be said that director Amir Khan has a lot of credit. Amir Khan’s last movie "Wrestle, Dad", from the low-level film volume at the beginning of the introduction to the counterattack all the way afterwards, won the box office of 1.295 billion yuan. In the Chinese film market, Amir Khan The name has become a brand. The
film mainly tells the inspirational story of Yin Xiya, a 15-year-old Indian girl, breaking through family obstruction and discrimination against women in Indian society, and bravely pursuing her dream of singing. The storyline of
is rather old-fashioned. When you see this scene, you will think of what will happen next. However, the film will be deeply moved involuntarily and inspired by Yin Xiya's pursuit of dreams through the narrative technique and moving singing voice, as well as the true feelings between the characters. Moreover, this film is not only an inspirational drama for pursuing dreams, it also shows the issue of sexism in India and the awakening of women's self-awareness.
1, the storyline is old-fashioned, but why is it moving?
Yin Xiya is a girl who was born with a good voice and has the courage to pursue her dream of singing, but the idea of singing was strongly opposed by the powerful father. He is patriarchal and treats his daughter as something that can be bought and sold. Yin Xiya got the support of her mother who had no right to speak. With the encouragement and help of her mother, Yin Xiya posted a self-playing and singing video on YouTube, which quickly became popular. The well-known musician Shakti threw an olive branch to her. Later, with the help of Shakti and fighting her mother, Yin Xiya finally realized her dream. The story of
is old-fashioned, but it will be very touching after watching it. I think there are two main reasons.
First, the creative technique is used in the movie, which is the first of the protagonist's loss, and then the sudden surprise, and finally the protagonist and the audience are moved together. Whether it's Hollywood or Bollywood, this technique has been tried repeatedly. The first moving plot of
: Yin Xiya wants to participate in the singing competition, because the prize of the competition is a computer and a one-year internet card. The mother said that it is not allowed to participate in the competition, because when the father knows, he will definitely be furious. Helpless Yin Xiya crumpled up the competition leaflet. Here shows Yin Xiya's loss.
The next day, Yin Xiya found a gift on the sofa after school. She opened it and saw that it was a laptop. It was a gift from her mother. Yin Xiya was so happy. The audience was also happy with Yin Xiya's happiness.
Yin Xiya asked her mother where the money came from. She knew that her mother had no extra money to buy a laptop. Mother didn't tell her that she had sold her only gold necklace before she had the money to buy a computer. This also paved the way for Yin Xiya to give up her dream of singing. The second moving plot of
: Yin Xiya's masked singing video received the attention and appreciation of the musician Shakti, and he invited Yin Xiya to record a movie theme song for himself. Yin Xiya replied and agreed to him, and asked Shakti to satisfy one of her requests and introduce a famous divorce lawyer. She wants to help her mother get a divorce and get out of the sea of domestic violence.
This is a fast-paced song, Yin Xiya can't find the feeling anyhow, always failing to meet Shakti's requirements. Shakti said disappointedly: Little girl, you can't sing, go home! Yin Xiya was so anxious that she could not sing a song, and her mother could not divorce. Despair and helplessness enveloped her.
Yin Xiya asked to stop, she ran to the toilet, thinking about her original intention and knack for singing, that is, "sing with heart." Yin Xiya persuaded Shakti to change to a slow-paced accompaniment. Yin Xiya found the feeling all at once, and her singing surprised everyone present. At this point, the audience's hanging heart finally fell to the ground, and he let out a long sigh of relief. The third moving plot of
: The mother of , influenced by traditional thinking, rejected Yin Xiya's kindness while hesitating. At this time, due to the transfer of his father's work, the whole family decided to go to Saudi Arabia. Yin Xiya was also forced to give up her dream of singing and planned to marry the son of her father's boss according to her father's wishes. When going through customs formalities, the number of luggageExceeded. Father planned to throw away Yin Xiya's guitar, he said: The guitar is rubbish. The words
completely angered the mother. The mother has never resisted her father, and has always been compliant. This time the father touched the mother's Ni Lin, and the daughter Yin Xiya had already given up her dream. Can't she even keep a guitar? The long-term depression, the courage of the daughter to fight for her own rights, and the contempt of the daughter's dream by the father caused the mother to break out. She blatantly defied her husband's wishes, saying that it was not rubbish, and took back the guitar, took her children, and decisively left the airport and left her husband.
This is a climax of the film. The mother's blatant resistance represents the awakening of the mother's female self-consciousness. I saw my mother being abused everywhere, and I felt very depressed. Here the mother's resistance is actually the voice of the audience, which detonated the audience's emotions, and she couldn't help but sigh inwardly: Nice work.
in addition to the use of narrative techniques that can drive the audience's emotions, the second moving reason of is music. The protagonist of pursues his dream of music, and the film is naturally inseparable from good music.
writer Feng Jicai said: “In all art, the most magical and greatest is music, no more than song. It is invisible, invisible, intangible, erratic, and even inferior to the air-you can feel it with a wave of your hand. But it can change everything in the space it fills with its unique temperament and emotion. It is light for us, it is heavy for us, it is calm and we are calm, and it is passionate and enthusiasm for us. "
Yin Xiya in the film I sang four songs. These songs express the singer's inner voice. Through the singing, we can feel her inner pain, struggle, expectation and pursuit. The first song of
is Sapne Re (Building Dreams), which is the song Yin Xia played on the train at the beginning of the film. The second song of
, Main Kaun Hoon (Who Am I), is the first song Yin Xiya recorded on the Internet after putting on her burqa. The theme is to explore her own values and dreams, and this song made her a hit. The film adopts the technique of time-space transformation. Yin Xiya, who sings and sings, with her face covered and her eyes closed, suddenly came to the spotlight, where reality and dream intersect. The singing voice is pure and full of true feelings, touching the audience. Mind.
The third song Nachdi Phira (I'm dancing), this is a song recorded for Shakti, which made Shakti to tears and evoked his pure music dream.
The fourth song is Meri Pyaari Ammi (my lovely mother). My mother has always been resigned. In order to realize her daughter's dream, she made a lot of sacrifices and kept fighting for her daughter's dream. The mother is the hidden "mysterious superstar".
In addition to these four complete songs, there are many soundtracks in the film, I&39;ll miss you (I will miss you) and Sexy Baliye, which add a lot to the film. Especially Uncle Mi’s Sexy Baliye, the easter egg at the end, is really a reversal, which makes people feel refreshing.
Yin Xiya's singing voice is simple and natural, with a strong Indian style, without superb skills, but the essence of the voice is ethereal and true feelings. At the small climax, the audience will be caught in the singing of the occasion, and it is very easy to empathize and move.
2. Bright character creation makes the characters come alive.
Characters are the key and core of film and television dramas. Like all literary and artistic works, film and television dramas also take portraying characters and shaping typical images as their central task.
"Mysterious Superstar" portrays the image of a little girl who pursues dreams, not only the rebelliousness and sensitivity of adolescence, but also resistance to social rules and persistence to dreams .
At the beginning of the film, my mother went to the train station to pick up Yin Xiya. She found her mother was wearing sunglasses and had eye injuries, but she said she accidentally knocked. Yin Xiya knew in her heart that her father must have beaten her, and she despised her mother's concealment.
classmate Qin Teng silently likes Yin Xiya, always helping her and making her happy. After Yin Xiya broke the computer under the pressure of her father, Qin Teng tried some ways to comfort her. Yin Xiya said: Are you all right? Why alwaysBuzzing like a fly beside me. These words hurt people like a winter wind.
Yin Xiya has recurring emotions and is a little arrogant. When she is angry, she is arrogant to her younger brother, angry to her mother, etc. These actions of her could not help being offensive.
Some people say that they don't like Yin Xiya, which is annoying. And I think this is exactly the genius of the film. is not only a positive and inspirational image, she also has shortcomings and makes mistakes. This is in line with the unique performance of adolescent girls and makes the characters more real and vivid.
Adolescent children have enhanced self-awareness and strong resistance. They are often agitated, lose their tempers, and antagonize adults. This is because their self-consciousness has begun to be established, and they must do things according to their own wishes. If adults are slightly restrained, they will have a mentality of resistance.
Yin Xiya grew up in an unhealthy family, with basic lack of paternal love, and her mother was very weak. The relationship between her parents created her resistance. She did not dare to defy her father openly, but she developed a mentality of resistance to the mother who controlled her. When unable to participate in singing competitions, get angry with mother. When her mother refused her wishful help and did not divorce immediately, she also lost her temper and called her mother timid and stupid.
So, what kind of image is a mother? The mother was gentle and simple, fully supported her daughter's dream, and endured domestic violence for a long time. Has the mother always been like this? No, she is constantly growing. She suffered a blatant resistance from Nilaishun, which is the awakening of female self-consciousness. In fact, from the perspective of the film, the character of mother is the greatest and the most moving image.
She gave Yin Xiya the greatest support for her dream within her own ability. When was very young in Yin Xiya, she discovered Yin Xiya's singing talent, so she bought Yin Xiya a guitar.
Yin Xiya wanted a laptop. She had no extra money, so she sold her dowry necklace. After the father found out, the mother was severely beaten. What is even more touching is that when Yin Xiya had an argument with her mother over the divorce, she learned from her aunt that before Yin Xiya was born, her father would end her life because she was a girl. It was her mother who insisted on giving birth to her, ran away from home for ten months, and returned home only after giving birth to her. Imagine how much suffering the mother has suffered by living alone to continue her life. If
is only to create a kind and strong mother, then the film is not enough to shock people. Mother's mastery of her own destiny is also a process of growth. In the beginning, she did not agree to the divorce. Yin Xiya found a famous lawyer in Mumbai who fought a divorce lawsuit through Shakti's relationship and showed her the divorce documents to her mother. After seeing it, her mother was very angry. She said that she didn't listen to her opinion when she got married, and she didn't ask her opinion when she got divorced. Her life is completely passive and she has no control over. The mother sees everything
daughter has done for her, and her feminist consciousness has slowly awakened. Because of the excess luggage, his father decided to throw away the guitar. This was the last straw to crush the camel and the fuse to ignite the mother's self-awareness. The mother no longer compromised, but rose up to resist, exerting unprecedented pressure on his father and letting him let go.
At the airport, the father habitually raised his hand to beat his mother. Mother stretched out her hand to block him and said to him:
" If you hit me now, you will be monitored and photographed. I will ask for a video from the airport and ask Yin Xiya to post it on the video website. Millions of page views will be seen all over the world by then, and don’t want to keep your job. The father of ”
was completely frightened and watched his wife leave with his children.
Yin Xiya is not only a girl who chased dreams, but also has some shortcomings, she has adolescent rebelliousness and sensitivity. The character of mother is also changing and growing. This kind of character setting is more vivid and impressive.
3. The film’s presentation and reflection on the social status quo
There is no doubt that society’s discrimination against women and the awakening of female consciousness are topics that this film cannot bypass. The outer shell of this film is a story of a girl chasing dreams, but inside is a touching story of a woman who is devastated and finally rises up to resist. In her mother's life, she was arranged for marriage since she was a child, and she had to marry a highly educated husband, but her husband never regarded her as a human being. She was almost forced to abort after pregnancy, in order to save the babySon, she had to ran away from home and gave birth. However, because she wanted to live, she had to return to her husband and continue to endure his violent abuse. The mother’s final resistance in the film
is also an important point that the film wants to express. The society should pay attention to women’s rights and give women more equality and care. There are many manifestations of mothers suffering from domestic violence in the film
. As soon as her mother appeared on stage, the bruises and blood clots around her eyes told the audience that violence is a commonplace in this family. As soon as the father appeared on the stage, he disliked that the soup made by his mother was too weak, and then the father overturned the dinner plate on his mother. It was discovered that the mother had sold the necklace. His father slapped his mother to the ground and beat him severely.
Domestic violence is too common in Indian society. A survey shows that 84% of women have suffered violence from their husbands or in-laws at least once during marriage.
Even in the wealthiest and safest area in India, the daily consultations received by the hospital are rarely typhoid, tuberculosis, malaria and other diseases. Most of them are women who have suffered domestic violence: poisoning, broken bones, and wounds. Women.
In the street interview, some people said that if a wife is unreasonable to her husband and does not respect her husband, the man will teach her a lesson. Some men said that they beat their wives once or twice a month. In their view, beating a woman is justified, and they even regard beating a woman as a symbol of authority.
Women who suffer from domestic violence are first caused by patriarchal thinking. The idea of patriarchy over thousands of years is deeply rooted and cannot be eliminated at once. Men treat women as property and can buy and sell at will. For example, the reason why the father in the film cultivated Yin Xiya was to let her marry the boss's son in exchange for the transfer of benefits between him and the boss.
Second, women have no economic status, which further causes the status of women to be underground. When is at home, follow the arrangements of the father; after marriage, follow the arrangements of the husband, stay at home and teach each other, without financial resources. Once you resist, you will encounter more serious domestic violence, and you can only live carefully and obey your husband. The awakening of mothers’ feminist consciousness in the
film means the awakening of Indian women’s self-awareness. In recent years, the feminist movement in India has improved, especially after the "bus rape case", the general awakening of female consciousness ushered in a small climax, and the government has also issued corresponding laws and regulations to protect women.
However, the awakening of feminist consciousness in India still has a long way to go. For women to achieve equality between men and women, they must first be ideologically independent. If you rely on men consciously, you will never get out of the vicious circle of domestic violence. Yin Xiya's mother was reluctant to divorce because she relied on her father mentally. Second, we must be economically independent. Women must have their own jobs and be able to support themselves. In the film, Qin Teng's mother divorced his father and started working after the divorce. Although his income is meager, Qin Teng and his mother live happily. The third point is the independence of personality. Women must have the idea of "I can control my own destiny". It is better to rely on others than on yourself. Only when you are strong can you have the confidence to leave at any time.
As stated in the book "Wake Up Women": "A good life is a life in which no part of the self is strangled or abandoned, and the parts of the self never oppress each other. Only in this case, the individual Only then have room to grow."
Conclusion:
"Mysterious Superstar" is a cliché story, but it is very touching, mainly because the film uses the narrative technique of first suppressing and then rising and moving singing voice. The characterization of the characters in the film is comprehensive and three-dimensional, allowing us to see the shortcomings and growth of the characters. This film is not only an inspirational drama for pursuing dreams, it also triggers reflections on Indian social issues and shows the awakening of women's self-consciousness.
