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The Indian version of Parasite

how does a pariah with a conscience become a rich man with no bottom line?

By tonyPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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The white tiger is about an Indian youth Mr. Lang , bottom in the Indian caste system, Mr. Lang is a pariah, he stays at a bear cognitive to life a good servant, but, when lang successfully become a noble young ashok driver, for his noble life thoroughly disappointed.

Under the caste system, Mr. Lang had a completely different life from the aristocrats, who were free to break the rules with impunity while they struggled to survive and were bound by various systems. Mr. Lang 's fate is like a feather in the wind, and any movement in the noble world will be enough to kill Mr. Lang . He does the most menial job and he risks taking the fall for it all the time.

Because for peers have tired of the hypocrisy of face, Mr. Lang finally decided to end it all in your own way, so as to make their own efforts among the upper class, as a result, Mr. Lang from a wet behind not deep underlying youth gradually darkening, ironically, when he completely black, but really have the dream of all.

For an Indian film, it tries to take the audience by storm for two hours without song and dance, a test of a kind that is a bit excruciating for an Indian film that has had its soul sucked out of it, but it is exceptional. The reason why there is no song and dance in this film is also very direct, because this is blackening, blackening does not need to be whitewashed, blackening is a crime, crime does not need to use any way to explain.

However, the crime in this film is not murder in the ordinary sense, but the beginning of one class trying to overthrow another class in a violent way. In countries a caste system is deeply ingrained, Mr. Lang's behavior and does not make sense for general offenders, but for the class jump or for real disgruntled people is a kind of positive significance, because of his behavior is a struggle, it has long been to himself in class under the social reality of the struggle try properties.

What we see first is what Mr. Lang has after success, but what we do not see is what Mr. Lang faces after failure. Mr. Lang 's "success" was not the result of a random crime, but a trial of his own experience formed by years of contact with nobles. Therefore, it was not an ordinary crime, but a premeditated resistance.

Mr. Lang has all this because he is not a foolishness, but a real observation of life, from the beginning of the ignorant youth to gradually understand the logic of the real Indian society. Step by step Mr. Lang breaks down his own perceptions and succeeds in breaking away from his class. Because there are no rules constraint, and know how to better avoid the existing rules, Ms. Lang finally committed the crime, this crime for him is to own the best way to what they have learned to use in practice, because from the bottom at the same time, he after the "success", to the survival of entrepreneurs pay more attention to the lower than normal people.

This is a film with a history of flesh and blood, but in the history, is already on the way of resistance by the tens of millions of people, Mr. Lang is lucky, his rebel finally paid off, it comes from his summary of the current social reality and the observation of nobles around, and those who were not so lucky "Mr. Lang " is forgotten by the whole society. Life is never easy for them, and life is not simple for them to live.

We cannot perceive them because our lives, though imperfect, are not preordained at birth, as in Indian society. When injustice affects millions of people, resistance naturally builds up. Many people compare this film to the Korean film "Parasite", which is not very accurate, because South Korea in "Parasite" does not have the national conditions of India, and their so-called social classes are formed after birth, while India's caste system is innate. It is much easier to break through an acquired system than it is to break through an innate environment. Because it's not a conspiracy, it's a change in perception.

Mr. Lang finally realized his dream, and the process of realizing this dream is also a bit of hope for Indian society, although his hands are also stained with blood, but it is also a kind of resistance. Mr. Lang 's rebellion is answered and with new hope in the cracks, he finally has the life he wants, and then what? Perhaps he can do more.

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