Review: Slumdog Millionaire
Thursday November 13, 2008
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, winner of the audience award at the Toronto Film Festival, is poised to be the feel good movie of the season. Based on the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup, Simon Beaufoy crafted the uplifting story of Jamal (Dev Patel), a scrappy orphaned kid from the slums of Mumbai who not only wins 20 million rupees on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, but also gets the gorgeous girl. Ugh.
Slumdog Millionaire opens this week. Read Marcy's review.
Comments
You stuck-up pinheads have the worst taste in movies. Hope you enjoy watching garbage movies like Inland Empire…alone in your feelings of superiority.
Hey Robert -
Sorry to hear that you disagree. I knew that I would be unpopular for not liking the feel good movie of the year. My opinion is my opinion. For the record, I found David Lynch’s Inland Empire to be in penetrable.
Thanks for writing,
Marcy
This is a brilliant film. I loved the story the actors, everything about this film had passion and cohesiveness.
I HYPED Slumdog Millionaire on EverHYPE and scored it 95%, which I think is very accurate.
http://www.everhype.com/hyper/mikeborgia?X=M700
If you get on there, rate me a 5 on it and request friendship.
Thanks for posting your review Musichypter.
For Slumdog fans, I read a great interview with the film’s costume designer:
The Slumdog Stylist - The Daily Beast.
The movie stank. Contrived, saccharine, ugly. Jamal had only one look on his face the whole movie. It was also upsetting to see people entertained by scenes of torture and horrible poverty. A dreadful movie.
This movie has exaggerated both the poverty of Indian people and the attitude of the Indians. All the WORST POSSIBLE incidents that could happen to a human being is being depicted as happening to this SOLE PERSON, which can’t be REALISTIC. I am at the same time not denying about the pathetic conditions of people living in the slums. But all the worst things occuring to a single person, is VERY UNLIKELY. The worst part of the movie is the attitude of the host of show “Who wants to be a millionaire”. Being an Indian, I have never seen any person humiliating any other person in a PUBLIC SHOW. If something like this happens, the public will never tolerate these kind of humiliation on a show that is broadcast nationally. So this movie is a hype depicting all the bad side of the Indian culture and people. So I did not enjoy watching this movie.
Its really fun to watch out a poor guy from slums creeping to such great heights. but some time i feel this movie has fail to satisfy all masses specially Indians. There are many reasons to it. but fairly the director has played with words and hearts.
Thanks, Dorothy and Leena and Joy for your comments. This movie seems to divide audiences pretty strongly into opposite camps: lovers and haters.
I made my opinion clear in my not so favorable review, but I also understand why the music and the the masterful editing, why beautiful Freida Pinto and the rags to riches story appeals to so many.
It will be interesting to see in the momentum will carry over into the Awards season.
Film is not “celebration of creativity”…..it is just any other movie made with goody-goody feel on human relationship and Love prevails non-sense. It is just that it is made by a westerner and distributed by “Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures”…hence it made a global opening….
India is portrayed as a pathetic slum which west wanted to see as they do not want to tarnish the image which they comply with.
Rest stupidity of congress to take the credit is cheap and they should try to do something for country rather than taking a bath in the glory of some movie.