It's not easy to choose.

Rating: 9/10 (21 April 2020)

In the movie, Geeta, the eldest daughter, trains with her father and plays for the first time. Four boys lined up, some thin, some sturdy, and Geeta chose. Of course, everyone in the audience believed that even the weakest boy could beat the Geeta girl. But Geeta chose his strongest rival.
Like all the wrestling scenes in the show, the fight that followed was real and exciting. Opponents at first disdain, suffered a loss, soon learned to handle with caution. Geeta was focused, trying to seize every opportunity. The audience also from the relaxed mood of watching the play, become nervous and engaged. Geeta lost to his opponent but won the respect of the crowd. But she was disappointed. Her father said she had conquered her fear.
Geeta had lived passively under his father's demon training. Even if we agree ideologically with our father, we can't get a glimpse of Geeta's true character. But this simple choice on the field brought Geeta's character to light. As my father later concluded, Geeta was an aggressive tiger. This domineering choice was the best preparation for Geeta's fate. Even if the opponent is bigger, even if Geeta is lost, we also know that this girl's heart sleeps a fierce tiger.
Choice is an exam question.
Let's think about another girl. She lived in developed Europe and America and loved wrestling since childhood. With the support of her parents, she met the best coach and successfully won the Olympic championship. In such a life, the dream is like the lamp, no longer need to choose the trouble. Just such a film is made out, at most is a youth inspirational fairy tale: sweet but difficult to shock people. This is not to say that there are no plain sailing people. It is only in the face of difficult choices that human nature is often fully manifested. Moviegoers are willing to sit in front of the screen for two or three hours, expecting to see the true humanity of the choices.
Because of the choice of time and often, the character of the character becomes three-dimensional. The father is stubborn and conceited, but when he massages his daughter's ankles, he questions his own harshness. Even when he had chosen the road for his daughter, he had added a year's time to his worries. When the professional coach humiliates in front of him, his father, who always refuses to admit defeat, takes it in his face. But when the daughter sobbed on the other end of the phone, the father did not hesitate, the next day to the daughter's city, quietly for his daughter as a practice partner. Throughout the film, amir khan, who plays the father, is unsmiling and has the same serious expression that many fathers do. But these choices, and the hesitancy and determination of his choices, gave me a sense of the richness of this father.
Geeta's success comes with a string of choices. After becoming a national champion, she opted for a more professional-looking coach, abandoning her father's skills. More importantly, she also gave up her focus on wrestling. In subsequent international competitions, Geeta did poorly. Meanwhile, the director deliberately accentuates the scene of Babita, the second daughter, and seems to want to abandon Geeta and turn Babita into a champion hero. In the difficult situation, Geeta chose to let go of her strong self-esteem and retrain according to her father's method. In the last moment of her father's absence, she chose to grow up alone, with a beautiful rainbow to win the gold medal, completed the transformation of an independent woman.
Some film critics argue that a father pushing his daughter to train violates "women's rights". Yet women's rights have always been more than a slogan that can be easily uttered. The feminist movement in Europe and the United States began at the end of the 19th century. In the hard, dirty and dangerous textile workshops, working women have a choice to make: be content with what they earn, or fight for more women's rights. As reflected in suffragette, the hard-won right to vote for women was paid a heavy price by the feminist movement. Similarly, in post-world war ii America, when men returned from the war, women in military factories faced the dilemma of returning to their families or staying at work. After years of hesitation, American women have chosen to fight for women's rights. Women's rights meant accepting the "choice" test, not the easy life.
Similarly, in India and many other developing countries, women's social status is low. Even if the most outstanding people to cry, it is difficult to change the traditional strong inertia. In the face of difficult choices, there is no way to have it both ways. It is true that the father forced his daughter at first. But as the father proudly declared, "let the daughter be strong enough to choose her husband". That's what makes movies valuable. It makes no secret of the cruelty of reality, whether it is early marriage, paternity, bureaucracy, or even the intensity and danger of wrestling itself. But for all the social problems, the film also holds a brave heart to choose. Father and daughter choose, act, then from humble beginning, until their own goal.
Before the screen, we can also have a choice?