Finally saw Slumdog. Here's my two cents (potential spoilers ahead). The movie is good, but not outstanding. The story seems contrived. As a viewer, I'd be willing to overlook the contrivance, if the format was merely a vehicle to showcase "reality", but like the bastardized Indian food most Americans take for the real thing, this movie is not faithful to reality. Despite the horrors of their life, the protagonist retains his unblemished innocence, and his love for his childhood sweetheart endures time, absence and distance. His steadfastness is duly reciprocated - their love is their destiny. It is this that makes our hero emerge victorious - the two crore rupees is incidental (he risks all on a flippant guess). Some corruption is inevitable with age and experience. Corruption maybe, not of one's action, but the loss of naivete, the acceptance of everything at its face value. Those who insist on safeguarding their innocence do so at the peril of ignorance and passivity.
Slumming its way to accolades
Slumming its way to accolades
Slumming its way to accolades
Finally saw Slumdog. Here's my two cents (potential spoilers ahead). The movie is good, but not outstanding. The story seems contrived. As a viewer, I'd be willing to overlook the contrivance, if the format was merely a vehicle to showcase "reality", but like the bastardized Indian food most Americans take for the real thing, this movie is not faithful to reality. Despite the horrors of their life, the protagonist retains his unblemished innocence, and his love for his childhood sweetheart endures time, absence and distance. His steadfastness is duly reciprocated - their love is their destiny. It is this that makes our hero emerge victorious - the two crore rupees is incidental (he risks all on a flippant guess). Some corruption is inevitable with age and experience. Corruption maybe, not of one's action, but the loss of naivete, the acceptance of everything at its face value. Those who insist on safeguarding their innocence do so at the peril of ignorance and passivity.