Monday, March 09, 2009

A Movie Review: Slumdog Millionaire

Hmm... I'm feeling cynical right now so take this as the opinion of a cynic:

The movie should have had a shitty, depressing, ending. The lives of the poor orphaned kids in the shanty slums of ghetto India were portrayed as inconsequential worry-free vacations. The movie was absolutely w/out the feelings of desperation that arise when you have nothing and struggle to survive. They spiced it up w/ loves lost and sold by siblings into sex slavery and colored that w/ the noble altruistic intent of a knight who's success in rising from the shit hole he was born into that is only overshadowed by his effectively wining the lottery and writing it off as fate. This would have been much better as a non-fictional documentary.

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