Originally posted by: MahanalayakKarn
@Bold - like every Bollywood romance ever since the 60s where the hero not only got away with it, the girl got reprimanded most times for rejecting advances?
Fast forward a bit, and we have the acid-throwing culture.
Or where the Western clothes-wearing, job-seeking heroine is considered contrary to Indian ethos?
Fast forward a bit, and we have women in skirts being considered fair game.
Movies build culture. Culture influences society.
Movies are also a business. They know they'll mint more by catering to the lowest common denominator.
A vicious cycle of movies reaffirming existing brutality which then assures itself this is exactly how it's supposed to be.
To pretend otherwise is willful blindness. Up to you, of course.
So we are going to use 60s movies to talk about current situation?
See you can have an opinion of that I am blissfully blind, I am neglecting this issue because it hurts my male ego, or I am misogynist, that is your opinion and you're completely entitled for that. But my opinion remains that blaming the movies for the stupidty in society is just an excuse by not addressing the real issue, i.e. failure of family upbringing, failure of enforcement of law and order. Why are women getting stalked, rape and murdered at such a huge rate in US and other western countries? The movies over there aren't really glorifying these stuffs. What really influences such thing over there?
See making something as trivial as movies as scape goat for cultural and society impacts is just a way of finding excuse and trying to put on one thing.
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