5 Second Movie Review: Slumdog Millionaire

Mister Hippity posted the following on February 22, 2009 at 7:15 pm.

That about sums up my own assessment. Great review, except for two things:

1. That was more like 15 seconds than 5.
2. Why “deserving”?

Pinekatz posted the following on February 22, 2009 at 7:33 pm.

I haven’t seen the movie but I am currently reading the book.

I’d like to see it win because the plot is completely improbable here but in India, authorities (the police) are brutal to the poor, they regularly accept bribes, they bully, and torture is real. Who you are means more than anything else and usually, it decides your destiny forever.

I hope the movie opens up the eyes of Westerners to a reality that is outside their imagination (mine). Movies often do that. Books always do.

I think that’s why it is so richly deserved.

I wouldn’t want to visit the slums of Asia. I know I wouldn’t. I just couldn’t do it.

korainhell posted the following on February 22, 2009 at 8:04 pm.

Hippity with the stopwatch: “Oliver in India” is my 2 second review. The rest is a victory lap.
Pinekatz: Checkout the article in this week’s New Yorker for a more eye-opening picture of kids in India’s slums.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/02/23/090223fa_fact_boo

ADismalScience posted the following on February 23, 2009 at 1:09 am.

We have to minimize everything good! Everything sucks! Wheee!

Curly Q Tips posted the following on February 23, 2009 at 2:44 am.

Is watching this movie going to help me with the Windstream customer support tech in Mumbai?

pufflehuff posted the following on February 23, 2009 at 8:13 am.

Mine would have just been LATIKAAAAAAAAAA! Admittedly, not much good for anyone who’d not seen the film, or Seacrest, who can’t just pronounce those funny Indian names.

Binky's Dream posted the following on February 23, 2009 at 11:11 am.

@ADismalScience: No one is telling you what you should write.