Looking at the whole film, it seems that the translation of the film title into "102 Not Out" with reference to the English name is more in line with the plot and has a deeper meaning.
102-year-old father Dately (rishi kapoor) is a cool old man with a 26-year-old soul, while his 75-year-old son Babu is lifeless. Dad is determined to learn from China's birthday star Wang Chongbei (not Wang Zhongyang) and challenge the Guinness World Longevity Record. Model Wang Chongbei, a 90-page Guinness Book of Records, cannot be verified for the time being. This is a typical comedy feature of Indian films. Don't get stuck here (seriously). This is just an introduction. Just believe it.
Dad is full of confidence in setting a new record in 16, but he has one worry: "getting along with old-fashioned, idle and lifeless people exceeds the harm caused by tobacco." Dad decided to send his son to a nursing home. Babu is of course reluctant, but his father's compromise is conditional: his son Babu must complete a series of tasks assigned by his father.
At the beginning of the film, some examples are used to list Babu's living conditions. Babu never takes a bath for more than 15 minutes, because he will catch a cold if he takes a bath for more than 15 minutes, so he sets an alarm clock and takes a bath on time at 14 minutes. Babu regards seeing a doctor as a routine, and he is nervous when he has a slight backache, for fear of physical problems. Babu thinks that at his age, he should do everything very carefully. He turned off the light, the water and the door. He posted tips in more than one place on his mobile phone line. He thinks these repetitive hints are necessary.
In short, in Babu's view, he is 75 years old ... he is very old, and people can't accept being old. Maybe you agree that Babu is cautious. This old man is carefree. But 102-year-old dad saw Babu's loneliness, cowardice, fear, anxiety, narrowness, rigidity, bondage, powerlessness and boredom. In fashionable words: Babu leads a miserable life!
Dad arranged a step-by-step task for Babu in the way of personal tailor:
(1) Write a love letter to his dead wife;
(2) Offend the doctor in the most thorough way, and don't associate with this doctor who has nothing to do and locks him up every week;
(3) Cut the blanket Babu relied on since childhood into the shape of several ducks;
(4) One-day tour in Mumbai;
(5) Let a pot of Clivia blossom in half a month.
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If he can't finish his homework, his father will send his son to a nursing home. Of course, Dad also gave Babu the right to skip one of the tasks as he wished. Dad also found a serious young man, Rudy, as a witness to accompany Babu to complete these tasks. This film can be said to restore Babu's experience and changes from Rudy's honest point of view.
From my personal point of view, my father did this for different purposes:
Let Babu write a letter to let Babu release his emotions and stop being autistic. He can always say anything he wants to his dead wife and tell the truth without any worries. In fact, Babu did it. At first, he patched things together like a student writing a paper, but when he wrote it, he also wrote in his complaints about his father.
Placing a doctor is to be a thief, which is why Dad doesn't give 75-year-old Babu a retreat: don't rely on doctors, and don't always think that you are sick. Babu was unreasonable at first, but later he realized his father's kindness, but he couldn't erase his face and fooled the doctor. Dad made a decisive move because he offended the doctor and made him unable to turn back.
Dad said that Babu liked blankets and little yellow ducks best when he was a child. He suggested that Babu directly cut the blanket into the shape of a little yellow duck, so as to better get rid of the old things, stop lusting after the past and welcome a new life. This blanket, which has been relied on for a lifetime, is like gauze covering a wound. Babu was reluctant to give up and decided to skip the question. Here, Dad's task has touched Babu's heartache. Dad didn't continue to insist. He promised Babu the right to skip any task.
Babu Mumbai is so warm for a day trip. When I went to the park when I was a child, I saw my favorite model plane still there, and his mouth was full of smiles. In the church where I took my son Amo, I let the Buddha see his childhood again. Rudy, who accompanied him, was surprised that Babu knew every stop his father asked him to go. Babu also proudly told him that he knew his father was watching not far away. Babu bought his favorite cake at his favorite bakery, and then left Rudy to take a rickshaw. When he is accompanied by a lover, he always shares the cake with the lover in the carriage. Now that his lover is gone, he gave the cake for his lover to the coachman and the children, and gained a lot of joy. Every scene has a recurrence of the past. One day, Babu looked back on many dusty and important episodes in his life.
After a day's swimming, Babu completed the task of avoiding without his father's urging. He personally carried himself from childhood to a big old blanket and cut it into a little yellow duck. Babu seems to have forgotten his desire to survive being forced by his father to go to the sunset red nursing home. The joy in this day's memory and empathy for his father moistened Babu's almost dry heart like a trickle.
Babu no longer resists his father's gradual inspiration and unknown tasks. Even if dad really failed in the exam, he could greet him with joy. Babu takes good care of his flowers in the sun (can I give an opinion to the Indian film industry? That potted flower is really not called Clivia. Clivia in China is so ugly! ), looking forward to the flowers blooming as scheduled. On this day, my father secretly changed Babu's works into his own flowering potted flowers. Dilu asked why, and Dad said the surprise was a reward for Babu.
In this scene full of affection between father and son, a telephone bell rang against one's will and was deleted by dad behind Babu's back. That was when Babu's son Amo remembered Babu's birthday. When dad played beautiful music for his son and encouraged Babu to relax, he unplugged the phone at home. He knew that once Babu got a call from Amo, this birthday would be unhappy again.
Babu was very angry when he found out that his son had called, but his father deliberately concealed it. Dad's last task for Babu was to drive his son out of the house like a baiwenhang and end this unbearable waiting day after day. In a rage, Babu did property justice, threw justice documents to his father, and angered his father with a sentence "If he dies, he will die".
In the face of such malicious remarks, the 102-year-old father lowered his eyes and was sad for only a few seconds. When he raised his eyes again, he had nothing to live in. He understood and cultivated Babu's unscrupulous expression of "death and immortality" and gave encouragement similar to when a child was too happy in front of his father: "Anyway, my son's momentum came out." This scene left a deep impression on me, but the rhythm of the plot was too late to make people cry.
No matter how old a child is, he is a child in the eyes of his parents. Facing the stubborn Babu, my father muttered a very domineering sentence: "I won't let your son beat my son!" " " .
Babu called Amo in America and begged his son to come back. Dad told Deru that Babu was like a beggar at this time. When Rudy said he didn't understand, Dad analyzed the unfilial of his grandson Amo and the injustice of his son Babu. Babu worked hard and sent his son to America. After my son arrived in the United States, he called once every six months on average and rarely sent photos. Even his mother's 28-day notice of death didn't bring Amo back. When dad was telling a story, Babu was crying and defending Amo. Dad tried to call Amo to let Babu know right from wrong, and the call turned to voice message. Dad had to lie about the property division notice, and the voice message immediately turned into a face-to-face call. Babu was dismayed to see that when his father exposed Amo's lies, he received a phone call from Amo, who had quickly booked a plane ticket to return home.
Dad bluntly advised him that he had cancer, and time was running out. He wants to watch Babu live happily in the last days of his life and become a new Babu who loves life with light in his eyes; He hoped that Babu would stop deceiving himself and be deceived by his son.
At this point, I feel like watching an old fairy tale. How old were you when you had parents? You can always get protection and guidance from your parents. You can take the trouble to tell yourself the truth of life. You can throw away tasks every time and smash the past and entanglements you want to escape ... This kind of happiness is really more perfect than having a robot cat in childhood. However, if you joke that many people are 75 years old and have not yet understood the meaning of life, but it is rare to have a father who is 102 years old to teach them, then you can live closer to Babu in the first half of the episode.
When I think of Al Bourhan's praise for rishi kapoor, I suddenly realize that Kapoor is a man who has realized the soul and compassion of his parents. No matter what stage their parents are in life, no matter whether they are there or not, they have rooted love in every child's heart, and they hope that children can find this happiness in their own souls. All the profundity and profound meaning in the play are that the father is encouraging his son to release his feelings and intentions through the acceptance in the depths of his soul, and then he can get out of the trap with momentum and without entanglement.
Next, Babu began a series of busyness to meet his son: buying mineral water for Amo and various medicines for diarrhea. Diru asked, "Do people in other countries really have diarrhea when drinking Indian water?" . Here's a joke-when you go to india tourism, people are told the most: Don't drink the water there, it's unsanitary, and you'll have diarrhea. Stains and criticisms like this never seem to be hidden in India. On the contrary, in the face of social problems, shortcomings and uneasiness in life, Indians never seem to hide their shame, but go in and out freely and deeply, thus turning their thoughts into governance. Just like the attitude towards life and death, only by acknowledging existence can we be understood and detached.
At the airport, the scene where Amo was taught by Babu was quite enjoyable. When Babu smashed his son's piggy bank and told Amona that 42 rubles were your property, Babu heard the whistle of his father, who never whistled.
When a piece of tail cloth wiped his father's feet, his father said to him, "I am firmly opposed to death. I have never died." I don't want to die if I can live. " . Before dad moistened things quietly, Babu was dominated by the instinct of death. Think about our parents. How many people can live a free and wonderful life like 102-year-old father, and how many people like Babu embrace all unpleasant experiences and feelings and live a depressed, rigid, pessimistic and numb life?
I hope this movie can remind us middle-aged people of those who need it most. Maybe this is the best healing film for our parents, to heal their inner children, to be parents of their inner children, how to face the attitude towards life for the rest of their lives, and how to be open-minded when dealing with changes ... Maybe they will also ridicule the director's ideas, but more are moved and inspired. It's really worthwhile to spend two hours thinking about how to make the rest of your life happier.
It can be said that this drama gave Amo an unfilial charge for the fullness of Babu and Dad's dialogue role. This kind of extreme unfilial is rare in life. Even if there are many, it is even more necessary to train parents to reflect on this unfilial son. In life, many elderly people's gloomy and low-energy lives are not entirely due to physical exhaustion. They don't realize and refuse to explore their own unconsciousness. Their fear of the pain and loss of life is far greater than their fear of death. Watching children distort their feelings, turn frugality into hoarding, and bear unnecessary pain in life and personal feelings, children are basically helpless. Only when parents can understand that death instinct can infect each other and can be passed down from generation to generation better than cancer can this karma be reduced.
The picture of father and son dancing in the rain on the streets of ancient India is so beautiful that it is the beauty of life. There are beautiful music, small shops full of flowers, and young faces passing by, just like myself in different periods. Babu and his father's face are full of heartfelt joy and gratitude for life.
I am very excited to see a film critic praising the creative perspective of this film: "Indian films are ahead of us again". China, like India, is a country with a large population. When we walked through India, intuitively, there were more centenarians in India than us. But when it comes to aging, we are really not on the same starting line as others. In addition to the fact that the population base and structure of the elderly are much more serious than that of India, the psychological problems of the elderly in China are more likely to exceed our imagination. More important than longevity is how to face the old mentality. China ... has almost reached the age of old age and strong country.
If death instinct is a completely private feeling, then how to face one's old age also has the element of self-choice to a great extent. The Indian film "Dad 102 Years Old" can have a positive impact on the elders born in the 1950s, and it is a good opportunity for us to care for the elderly around us. The film has a more constructive perspective on old age, life and death, raising children and preventing old age, and has positive and rich practical significance. This film is not a question and discussion about affection and filial piety, and it can even be said to be a relaxed and pleasant comedy. In the play, dad's energy is flowing, and he doesn't fall into any emotional and imaginary pain. Of course, I didn't understand the mentality of the elders who watched the movie. I just expected them to laugh and cry sincerely in this film.
Please also ask young and middle-aged friends not to ask me what's the point of Babu staying without a father and a child, Amo? ! I hope you can be warm and cured after watching this movie ... It seems that you have limited the meaning of life ... This exaggerated thinking is relatively narrow. Everyone will get old one day, and no one can stop the pace of time. Whether to rely on your children or live a wonderful life alone can you spend your old age safely. I believe your answer is very clear. Just like the earth, in addition to revolution, it needs full energy to rotate.