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KRISH

                                                    April 16, 2014
A minor observation
concerning "Krish 3", the
Bollywood superhero movie.                     Every now and then I need
                                               to talk about something
    There's a scene where Krish                besides japanese pop culture,
    swoops in to help a little                 if only for appearences sake.
    boy who's in danger of falling
    from some netting strung
    across a walkway.

    In the ensuing dialog afterwards,
    it becomes clear that the kid got
    himself in trouble while rescuing
    a cat that was stuck in this netting
    (or at least, it was acting like it
    was stuck-- really, you never know
    with cats).

    The kid thanks Krish for his heroism,
    and Krish returns the favor--

    There's this sense that the kid already
    has the bug, he's already a hero.             And the point that I think
                                                  is interesting: you couldn't
    I think he also goes on to caution him        do something like this in
    that he needs to be careful, it's no help     an American film-- they'd
    if he gets himself killed, or something       worry too much about
    like that...                                  encouraging reckless behavior
                                                  in our increasingly fear-
       (Actually, it's a little strange that      driven, locked-down, control
       I think I know what the dialog means       freak culture.
       here-- I'm pretty sure I've only seen
       this in raw form without subtitles.)


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