Slumdog Millionaire
So currently Danny Boyle's newest film is the frontrunner for Oscar gold, and today I found out why. For anyone thinking this is your usual manipulative and dry Oscar bait, you cannot be more wrong. What we have here is a fable the way fables were meant to be told. It's a shame that this movie got saddled with the truly unwarranted rating of R by the MPAA. It truly deserves to be seen by a wider audience.
The movie follows Jamal Malik, a young uneducated man who finds himself on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? While being interrogated for possibly cheating at the game, for how can an unedecated man from the slums know any of the answers, the film shows how each answer had been permanently etched into his mind by life itself. The movie is both bittersweet and beautiful. Run, don't walk to see this movie.
Excuse my disjointed thoughts.
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From the thinnest thread
We are sewn together
From the finest string we dangle over time
From the highest wire
We walk through fire
Should our balance ever falter
Should our steps be unaligned |