i dug it

NDRU said:

SUPRMAN said:

The talk show was a very clever contrivance to hang the story on.

I thought so too. Contrivance is the perfect word, too, because it was contrived but clever.

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Yeah, that's how I took it. It's interesting that people feel the fairy tale aspect of it and the gritty reality jarred, because, for me, they made perfect counterpoints to each other. I felt like the fact that they were telling a fairy tale meant they could get away with more in terms of the grim, gritty social reality, and also that the fact that the reality was so harsh meant that the fairy tale didn't come off as saccharine. Plus, when you reflect on it after the fact, it's easy to see that the fairy tale bit never happens, whereas the harshness of poverty happens every day, so the coating of the 'sugared pill' you've ben fed dissolves, and you're just left to make what you will of the social commentary on modern, divided India.