丑恶

警察蜀黍是对的，谁都不能信，他就生活在一群欲求不满的人当中，有二五眼的，有演技好的，有心机深的。我理解这种状况发生的经济社会背景，因为天朝也有着同样略扭曲的价值观，但看着比我们天朝人民更加要钱不要命的民族，三观再次被刷新，我本来就对印度极端不感冒，这部优秀的印度电影让我愈加确认了要离这个地方远一点的宗旨。

托马斯·阿奎那论证上帝的存在时曾援用过亚里士多德的理论：万物都是运动的，每一物体的运动必然要有一个推动者，由此类推，最终定然有一个静止的第一推动者，这是世间一切运动的起源和动机，也就是“神”。这个论证可以类比到几乎所有侦探或者犯罪小说中，故事中的罪犯角色就是万事之源，是“第一推动者”，而侦探或者警察绞尽脑汁，从最明显的因果关系开始一步步往回推，直到找到第一推动者，让故事完整。

而《丑恶》似乎是个反例：所谓第一推动者推了一下之后，还未曾现形就消失了，其他人物却一个接一个地充当推动者的角色，一件件旧事俨然都成了事件表面而下的汹涌暗涛，最初的推动者却越发不可见。让一宗原本简单的绑架案变成牵涉到种种旧仇新罪的复杂事件，让每个牵涉其中的人物都显露出丑恶的一面，观众更是几乎忘了原来的案件是什么。

原先的案情一句话就可以概况：演员Rahul Varshney （又名Kapoor）与前妻Shalini的女儿Kali被人贩子绑架，虽然人贩子很快就露出了马脚，但是在绑匪身份曝光之前就意外身亡。真凶已死，理论上不会再出现推动案情继续发展的事件，此时却出现了主动取代推动者角色的人物：Rahul的朋友Chaitanya，这是第一个代替消失的绑匪勒索的角色。随后其他人物纷纷插手添乱：Rahul和Shalini当警长的新丈夫为了当年的种种私怨纠缠不清，Rahul家暴妻子的旧事更是被当做这位落魄演员离婚、失去监护权和绑架自己女儿的最初动机，两人间的相互怀疑原是由于情敌之争；Shalini的弟弟也假借绑匪给姐姐打电话索要赎金；Shalini本人则在500万赎金的基础上向富豪父亲多要了150万以饱私囊，她的朋友Rakhee趁机贪掉了这150万；就连电影开头义正词严地拒绝与走私贩同流合污的警长Shoumik Bose（也就是Shalini的新丈夫，Rahul大学时代的情敌）也露出了心如铁石的一面：他娶Shalini到底是为了爱，还是仅仅为了报复Rahul？是他对妻子的冷漠，让电影第一个镜头里迟迟下不去开枪的手的Shalini最终扣动了扳机……旁观者看着这些人物争先恐后地推波助澜，让自己双手染上罪恶的黑色，怀疑“第一推动者”是傲慢愚蠢的前夫，是不忠的朋友，是虚荣的妻子，是贪婪的情人，是趁虚而入的弟弟，是冷漠的新丈夫，当然也可能是最开始就死了的那位。旁观者和这些人一起忘记被绑架了很久的小女孩。于是我们看到，故事在绑匪这个关键角色缺失的情况下走到了最后，而且是受害者惨遭撕票的黑暗结局。

如此众多的矛盾集中在这几个人物身上，假使Kali没被绑架，他们中也许早晚有人会犯下同样的罪行。而在电影里，无论哪个人物最终冒充绑匪打了电话，原先的犯罪故事的结局都是一样的：Shalini的父亲损失金钱，Kali会因无人过问而饿死。整部电影的叙事结构仿佛一个有多条不同路线的迷宫，有着确定的入口和出口，抑或一架复杂精致的机器，一旦运作起来，无论触动其中哪个零件，最后一个闸门都会被推动。这样的故事让人怀疑，所谓犯罪故事中的“第一推动者”，到底是不是只有角色上的意义，换谁来推一把都是一样的？

或许可以把犯罪故事当做叙事文本来解释吧：文学学从不说故事是人物（Person）或者角色（Figur）构成的，叙事文本的最小组成单位是“动机”（Motiv），也就是一个一个细小的主题，比如某两人之间的爱和恨，再比如某一场战争等等。它是情节（Handlung）出现和存在的缘由。关于《丑恶》这部电影，如果我们为每一个主要角色的行为寻找动机，能找到太多：情敌间的仇恨和嫉妒，梦想破碎后的颓唐，贪婪……而如果为这些动机寻找共同点，那只能是每个人身上的自私。故事的开头和结局都是因为自私，中间的每一重谎言、每一次背叛也是因为自私。故事讲到最后，真犯的生死不如其他角色的尔虞我诈重要，人物的过往和未来也可以用那唯一的动机取代：最初就是一只自私的手推动了整个事件，是谁的已经不重要了。

所以在我看来，这部电影的意义在于，它首先还不是一个有关追查罪犯的情节式犯罪片，而是将情节一层层地剥离掉，最终找到的不是“第一推动者”这个特定角色，而是最深处的动机，让人嗅到风波迭起的情节下面，那一潭死水般的人性黑暗——而既然角色和情节一起，在这潭死水中失去了个性，观众也就应该叩问一下自己，同样的情况下，自己是否也会隐在那深潭中，趁乱伸出一只自私的手。

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一桩简单的绑架案，在丑恶人性的围堵下，变得荒诞不经、曲折离奇，通向光明的出口近在咫尺，却又远在天边，人们走失在人性堆砌的迷宫里而不自知，最终在一个漆黑的夜里，吞下一颗丑恶人性灌溉的苦果。

丑恶的人性几乎从一开始就介入了案件的调查。痴迷官僚主义的警司，不着急询问案情，而一味的摆架子，刁难报案人，在影片中，这段剧情被演绎成了难熬的8分钟，8分钟在警司无意义的缠问、打断、阻挠中，漫长如一个世纪！而当你感到万分愤怒时，却发现这仅仅是开始，当你想指责官员的玩忽职守时，却发现这并不是故事中最恶劣的部分，毕竟他们和小女孩非亲非故！随后，女孩的继父、舅舅、妈妈、父亲以及父亲的女友、朋友，纷纷在案件的引导下，暴露出隐藏内心许久的丑陋脾性，他们中没有一个将女孩的安危置于首要，而是纷纷拨弄起自己的小算盘，有人要报大学时期的仇来泄愤，有人想乘机讹上一笔巨款来偿债......这些可都是和小女孩沾亲带故的人啊！有的甚至是至亲！时间在滴答滴答中流失，丑陋的人性在不断发酵，女孩的生命也在慢慢逝去，影片“好心”的适时播报日期，但所有人都无动于衷，观众则因渐渐在荒诞的故事里品尝到一丝恶趣也变得乐观起来：也许小女孩根本没有被绑架，一切只是个闹剧。





结局实现大反转的影片并不少见，但本片仍然成功的制造了巨大的震撼效应。常见的反转模式，都旨在炫耀智商而给出一个精妙绝伦的答案，而本片却逆向而行，它给了观众一个无比简单却又万分残酷的答案，这与之前看似复杂又令人发笑的案情，形成强烈的反差，甩了丑恶人性一个狠狠的耳光——案情本就如此简单，是人性的丑恶迷惑了双眼，错失了营救小女孩的时机——小女孩被活活饿死，开始腐烂的尸体，象征着人性的堕落，而她手里揣着的那张笑脸面具，看来极其诡异，一如恶魔得逞后得意洋洋的模样。



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当看到结局时，我们不由得要为影片中所有的丑陋角色感到不耻，甚至要为自己感到不耻，毕竟我们在观看整个营救过程中，也没有展现半分的焦虑，而是心安理得的看着这些丑陋角色的荒诞演出，并自感优越的进行一些剑走偏锋的猜测，这正是影片最出彩之处，它刻意用荒诞的基调来刻画角色的丑陋内心，诱导观众产生恶趣，失去本应有的理智与道德感，简单残酷的答案某种程度上，也是一种变相的智商碾压，它用逆向思维调戏了所有人，包括观众。这种调戏在女孩舅舅讹诈得巨款后，变得尤为突出，这个肥胖的男人，将钞票绑在肥腻的腰间，在夸张聒噪的音乐里，死命的扭动身体来欢庆，画面以橙、蓝互补色，凸显出鲜明的色彩对比，像是在配合展现这个男人爆富之后的疯狂，当时我只感到一种莫名的喜感，而结局过后，回想这一切，我仿佛看到了小女孩因饥饿而垂死挣扎的画面在色彩的涌动中、音律的跳动中，发出凄厉的哀鸣，我顿感喉咙一阵发涩。




不由想起去年的国产片《心迷宫》，同样也是一桩简单的案件，在各个角色暗怀鬼胎的引导下，变得荒诞、离奇，不过它对人性丑陋的揭露远不及这部印度片，故事被设定为误杀案本身就性质偏中，而受害人也非善男信女，且身患重疾，看起来该死也本就会死，恶性程度被进一步弱化，随后的阴差阳错，与本片一样，显得恶趣连连，但最终收尾在一个平淡的结局中，谁也没有因为自己的小算盘而变得罪孽深重，而本片则要残酷的多，基本上所有的人都难逃罪责，人性迷宫的每一步都沾满血腥味儿，因此《心迷宫》还能以一个相对中性的片名来定义，本片直接被冠以《丑恶》，观众也许能怡然自得的观看前者，却绝对无法在观看过后者还能保持心安理得。

印度影片常见的歌舞串场在本片中被抹去，显然是为了保持一种严肃的态度。谁说印度影片只会唱歌跳舞，在真相面前，他们一向犀利而不是手软，此片就是例证！说到这里，不由又想起影片开始时的字幕：本片灵感来源于真实事件。瞬间感觉人整个都不好了。

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没想到印度可以拍出这样的电影。
印度的电影，就算把故事的发生地换成韩国美国来翻拍，还能感觉到那种特有的，杂乱的脏兮兮的味道，那味道是骨子里的，是存在于故事的基因里的。但这个故事，看起来也杂乱也脏，地域性的因素都有，但骨子里却是干净利落的，故事的发生地，可以是韩国美国甚至北欧。是一个有全世界理解度的故事。
结尾那里，已经改头换面准备偷渡的父亲，给警察打电话，知道自己的女儿依然失踪，突然疯了：我是谁我是谁。特别出奇，有大卫林奇的风范。
唯一不能理解的，是警察后爹对小女孩的感情。小女孩并不可爱，母亲歇斯底里，后爹却深沉又执着，甚至还拥有悲伤的片尾曲，我看了三遍，想找出解释，然而没有找到。

There are many events throughout the whole movie which included search and suspicion of characters around story but they are not narrated here

Kali is a 10 year old daughter out of the divorced couple Shalini Bose (Tejswini Kolhapure) and Rahul Kapoor (Rahul Bhat). Rahul pickup Kali on Saturday - the only day on which he is allowed to take out his daughter. Between their way towards a cartoon movie they stop for awhile to meet Chaitnya Mishra (Vineeth Kumar), Rahul's best friend for a quick audition of struggling actor Rahul. Kali rejects to come with him and she sits in the car on a crowded Mumbai street and ask Rahul to come back soon. Rahul waits for his friend Chaitnya at his home leaving car parked with Kali in the street.



While waiting Kali sees a mask-vendor who is trying to sell animal masks and Kali is attracted (but does not get out of car,presumably) Chaitnya comes after few minutes to meet Rahul and says Kali is not in the car and the door was open. Rahul runs to find and Chaitnya follows him. They ask everyone on street if they saw any little girl but nobody answer. Chaitnya spots the mask vendor Shrilal (Murari Kumar) and ask him but Srilal do not answer and stare instead. Chaitnya sees that Shrilal is having iPhone of Kali and ask him how did he had that phone. Shrilal runs and both Rahul and chaitnya follows. In a long chase, Shrilal gets hit by a car/truck and dies instantly.



Rahul and Chaitnya goes to police station to meet Inspector Rane (Sandesh Jadhav) to file missing report of Kali and death of Shrilal. While the continues unwanted, not-so-funny questions by Rane and his team to Rahul, Rane ask Rahul's home number to call. Rane realise after dialing that the number belongs to his Head and Senior Inspector Shoumik Bose [nm0747172] who is a very rough, rude but yet respected and honest police officer. Thus concluding that Shoumik is step-father of Kali. Rane calls Shoumik and he arrives instantly at police station. Police goes to Shrilal's house to see if he has kept Kali there but there is only Shrilal's aged aunt who denies having kidnapped any kid. Police search arounds but do not found Kali. Shoumik hits Rahul and Chaitnya very much and we see in flashback that all Shoumik, Rahul and Shalini were in same college where Shoumik and Rahul both wanted Shalini but Shalini was attracted to much handsome Rahul and Shoumik was teased a lot. In today, Shoumik blams Rahul for the kidnapping of Kali because he can't meet her daily and Shalini keeps her away from him because of his drinking habit. But later it is revealed that Kali is not kidnapped by Rahul.



Chaitnya, who is having lots of pending dues to pay make a fake call to the Rahul asking for a ransom amount of Rs. 10 Lacs but before Rahul can arrange money Chaintnya's call is traced and Rane catches and again hits Chaitnya very much to find out if he has Kali. Shoumik ask Rahul to talk with Chaitnya to find out where is Kali but it is revealed again after few scenes that Chaitnya is also not behind the kidnapping. Between we again see a flashback that after marrying Rahul, Shalini was not happy since Rahul didn't had any job as actor and they lived in a very small room without money for very long. Kali was born and aged 5 years around. Chaitnya visits Shalini and Shalini who is angry and bored from money-less dull life and fighting life mixes a very little amount of sleeping powder in Kali's milk for her own greed of satisfaction and spends night with Chaitnya. Shoumik married Shalini when once Shalini was beaten cruelly by Rahul but Shoumik never loved Shalini the way a husband do.



We are introduced by Rakhi Malhotra who is best friend of Shalini but is having affair with Shalini's first husband Rahul leaving her own husband aside. Rakhi is a struggling actor like Rahul and is out of money. She also takes advantage of Kali's kidnapping by calling for ransom and asking sum of Rupees 20 Lacs. To arrange this money Rahul goes to loot a jewelry store but is failed. Other than this, Shalini's brother Siddhant (Siddharth Kapoor) who is a local smuggler and is out of money also tries to dig gold by calling Shalini for ransom and asks 50 lacs. Shalini, again, greedy for money and bored from husband adds her own amount and ask from her father total of 65 lacs for ransom and says that kidnapper has strictly said not to tell Shoumik about this. Her Father arranges money and Shalini after deducting her own amount and gives rest to Siddhant not knowing that it is him who is asking and not any kidnapper. Shoumik comes to know this and goes to Shalini shouting that she cheated her father - and ask where is remaining amount and Kali is not coming home this way. We see in flashback that Shalini has asked Rakhi to keep 15 lacs secure. but Rakhi runs away with money including team of Chaitnya and Rahul. Shoumik tells this to Shalini and an outraged Shalini shoots Shoumik with gun and Shoumik is injured on shoulder. Siddhanth is caught red-handded with money.



Later, Shalini runs away from home without saying any thing. Shoumik, after not finding his daughter seating alone attends a call from Rahul where Rahul tease Shoumik but he is not affected by any of it and says whether or not Rahul is having Kali with him; just answer yes or no. Rahul puts the phone down and hits Chaitnya shouting that Chaitnya ensured Rahul that Shoumik is behind Kali's kidnapping but he does not have her and Chaitnya did all of these for money and Rahul (assumably) kills Chaitnya in that fight. While this, Rakhi runs away with all money alone.



Next day we see that police department gets a call complaining about Shrilal's old-aged aunt from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh police station for child-kidnapping. A police detective meets the aunt and tells her if she knows anything about Kali then speak. She does not say anything but later she approaches the same deserted market area from where Kali was missing very early morning and police detective follows her. Later, police detective call Shoumik to come with team at same place as Kali is found. In the last scene of movie, Shoumik and his team comes to that discarded area of market, where Kali was kept bounded from hand and mouth and she is dead. Her whole body is fungus-ed. due to being dead from last so many days. police detective tells Shoumik that she was here the whole time and we could have saved her. She was drugged and kidnapped by Shrilal.

The story tells us a reality of the cruel world by depicting money-greed friend, outraged first husband, senseless brother, money derived and betraying friend and wife and rude police officer. All of them wanted more than what they already had and while all of this - they all lost a little innocent girl. It is seen that even though none of them can be blamed - all of them were murderer.