"BLOODY HELL!"
That is the English mantra spoken by Julia (Kangana Ranaut) a beautiful actress protagonist, playing a local hero dress in British colonial colors, complete with Zorro mask and a pair of high leather boots. The local audience fell for it and chants the mantra after her.
That is the power of cinema and the British have put it to good use. Their culture, values, and propaganda are being subtly injected into the population's subconscious minds. On the big screen, Julia plays the savior of the people.
Subtly, what they are saying is, it's the British.
Before Julia was the hot stuff, Billimoria (Saif Ali Khan) was the local hero until he met with an accident while filming, losing his hand. He has built a special relationship with the British commander, Major General David Harding who watches over them with what goes on the stage and the big screen. (more about that in Part 2)
Both Julia and Billimoria are akin to the colonizer's puppets on the stage they themselves construct. Doing the colonizer's bids in spreading their agenda. At one point in the film, they are being threatened with film stock supply blockage from the UK, which has come previously from Germany.
One of the reasons is, of course, the Germans acknowledged the power of the cinema and keeping all the stock they can get for their own propaganda campaign. Hence the production of a masterpiece such as 'Triumph des Willens' in 1935. It has driven them across the English Channel and bombed London and to the edge of Stalingrad.
It is the month of August and we are to celebrate, yet again the anniversary of our independence from the British occupation back in 1957.
What is shown on the screen will forever be propagandistic, up to what is shown in 1957's "Misi Merdeka". The showcase of pride and grandiose upon getting the independence, while they are all actually just a mass illusion to cover that, like Julia and Billimoria, it is just the locals doing the colonialist job.
The same can be said about the shifting of the premier in Malaysia that we are witnessing now. It is akin to a big Ferris wheel circulating the same thing over and over again yet producing the same result.
Albert Einstein calls it insanity.
If any real change is going to happen out of all this, heads will roll, literally. Like how Gandhi had it. Also Malcolm X, Lincoln, and many others who had asked us to live happily with one another.
"Bang! Right in the fucking head..." - George Carlin
"Bloody Hell!"...
To be continued in Part 2...
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