Rogue 7
2009-01-11, 10:32 PM
So I'm currently watching the Golden Globes right now, and Slumdog Millionaire has won every single thing I've seen it nominated for. I saw it last night, and it was fantastic. For those who don't know, it's the story of an uneducated Indian boy from the slums of Mumbai. He gets himself onto the Indian version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire". It isn't expected that he's going to do well, but he gets on an incredible run and gets up to the ten million rupee mark (one question before the final one) through a series of questions the answers to which he picked up throughout his life, and this is used as a framing device for the story- it opens with him being arrested by the police on suspicion of cheating- he's tortured over it. His childhood story is really amazing. His dedication to finding the girl he met (Latika) is incredible. Really, it's a great movie that everyone should really see.
Man, at the end, when he was guessing on the final question, I was positive that the answer was C (D'artangen). I thought that it set the thing up perfectly and bittersweetly- he gets the girl but loses all the money. Imagine my shock when he got the damn thing right. Made for a nice change after being right about most of those plot twists. And how he managed to figure out that the host was playing him. That was awesome.
My only complaint was the way his brother thought at about the midpoint in the film, after he had just killed the orphanage dude. "Hey, I just shot a man who was going to take my brother's eyes out and was training this girl to be a prostitute, and she just happens to be the only thing my brother's thought about over the past few years. I know, I'm going to rape her and threaten to shoot my brother, then abandon him. Yeah, that's the right thig to do!
Man, at the end, when he was guessing on the final question, I was positive that the answer was C (D'artangen). I thought that it set the thing up perfectly and bittersweetly- he gets the girl but loses all the money. Imagine my shock when he got the damn thing right. Made for a nice change after being right about most of those plot twists. And how he managed to figure out that the host was playing him. That was awesome.
My only complaint was the way his brother thought at about the midpoint in the film, after he had just killed the orphanage dude. "Hey, I just shot a man who was going to take my brother's eyes out and was training this girl to be a prostitute, and she just happens to be the only thing my brother's thought about over the past few years. I know, I'm going to rape her and threaten to shoot my brother, then abandon him. Yeah, that's the right thig to do!