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Slumdog Millionaire/a Feel Good Movie


We saw this movie today and it was great.
Both of us liked it a lot.
I strongly recommend this movie.
Here is a short trailer on this.
The review is from one of the newspaper.
I am not very good in this,like Martin who does a great job in doing this.
I did send him an email on this.
A fast two hour movies and do not lose any interest.
Danny Boyle did a tremendous job on this.
Nominated for Golden Globe Adward.
I always stay at the end of the movie to read screen credit etc.There they had the whole cast dancing up a storm and the music was so great,you want to get in the aisle and danced away.
Great movie,great fun.One of the best for me at the start of this New Year.
Do yourself a favor and checked this out.



The jumble and hustle of modern-day India provides the steamy, energetic backdrop to Danny Boyle's electrifying new feature, Slumdog Millionaire. The film is an eloquent and moving account of a boy who attempts to become a millionaire on a television game show, rediscovering the love of his life in the process. Boyle uses this extraordinary premise to paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of a society built around survival of the fittest, where betrayal is commonplace and greed and corruption lie just around every corner.

In a picaresque tale worthy of a Henry Fielding novel, this Tom Jones is Jamal, a poor, bright-eyed youth mischievously getting in and out of scrapes with his even more rambunctious older brother, Salim. In a horrifying turn of events, the two youngsters' lives change in front of their eyes when their mother is viciously killed during a riot. Alone, they turn to the streets, becoming “slumdogs.” A ray of sunshine comes into their lives when they befriend another orphan, the feisty young girl Latika, and soon the three are inseparable. Adventure follows as the trio learns to survive the cutthroat life of contemporary India – but at least they have each other. Or do they?

Years later, Jamal appears on India's version of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Amazingly, he finds himself in the position of winning more and more prize money as the answers to the questions keep tumbling his way. But how can a “slumdog” with no formal education know the answers to these questions? Suspicions are raised, and Jamal quickly learns that the game show will be his biggest life test.

Boyle's film is a cinematic rollercoaster ride. Above all a romance, it is played out in a world where social, economic and political issues are never far away. The young cast is superb, but it is Boyle's dramatic smarts and feel for the heat, sweat and street life of Mumbai that transforms Slumdog Millionaire into a compelling and gripping cinematic experience.

posted on Jan 1, 2009 2:17 PM ()

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Sounds good.
comment by elderjane on Jan 2, 2009 11:11 AM ()
sounds interesting indeed!
comment by kristilyn3 on Jan 2, 2009 7:01 AM ()
I hadn't heard of this movie either, Fredo. I guess I don't pay attention to newer ones. I will watch it when it gets to hulu.
comment by sunlight on Jan 1, 2009 8:57 PM ()
Had not heard of this movie, but it sounds great! I'll make a point of trying to see it. Thanks for the review, Fredo.
comment by redimpala on Jan 1, 2009 4:55 PM ()
What ever would we do without your movie reviews? Thanks for keeping us up to date on what to watch and what to avoid. Happy New Year, my friend!
comment by mzscarlett on Jan 1, 2009 4:50 PM ()
This really did sound interesting, though not something I would probably pay to see at the theater. MOre something I would get on DVD from work.
You know me and my bad taste for movies.
AJ
comment by lunarhunk on Jan 1, 2009 2:28 PM ()

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