LOVED DEV PATEL!!!

HE ROCKED MY WORLD!!!

This is why when Asians succeed at anything (like this movie) or advance economically (such as with the outsourced IT jobs and manufacturing) the SWPL’s and other elite Western whites who are usually in support of wealth redistribution to poor people (and most of Asia is dirt poor), multiculturalism, “uplifting” minorities, etc - are suddenly angered and irritated, as if the Asian person has climbed over other more worthy and coooler causes in the PC hierarchy.

THAT is the real reason for your manufactured “backlash”.

SWPL crowd must control “cool”, and therefore control World Culture. The hierarchy must be followed, wait your turn chinks, japs, gooks, hindus, ghandis, pakis, and other Asians who “steal” Western jobs and don’t even give us “cool” or kiss our SWPL shoes in return. How dare you filthy people - doncha kno da deal ? (shhh, hope know1 realizes where we got all of our totally kool “Western” leftist zen “passive resistance” pacifistic principles from - the Asian EAST after all - but gotta let the koool kidz think we invented it all, World Culture is SWPL’s full time job, after all, we’re the godz we ctrl Hollywood ! we know-it and see-it allz, koool is our religion, doncha know, we hand out the communion when it’s your turn, not a minute before, get back to the back of the PC line where you belong).

Tarre Zameen Par was a much better story and a movie than SlumDog Millionaire.

However the western world failed to recognise the talent in TZP.

I do feel strongly that a progressive India is a bit too much to swallow for the Western World.

Therefore SlumDog Millionaire makes a point.

I wonder when the western world will wake up to a super progressive India.

The film is very viewable and does the downtrodden masses a favour.
It’s certainly not a feelgood film and should not be marketed as such.
First of all look upon it as entertainment for a flabby westrn populace.
That’s probably all it was ever meant to be.
It works on that level and several others.
One of which is to bring the reality of Indian cities to the wider world.

Secondly, I have to agree to a certain degree with this blog. Slumdog is a very well made movie, in terms of cinematography, music and the like, with very little going on in the plot department. And please, refrain from telling me that I did not understand what was going on because I did. Jamal went on the show not to win money but to find his long lost love.

My issues come with the structure. We see all of JEmals life events unfold through these questions on the game show. And every question, EVERY question, just so happens to be explained by some event in his past life. So with each question, I found myself being lulled into a very formulaic film mechanism. Jemal receives the question, flashback that includes answer, and present where he answers the question and… Surprise, he answered it correctly! Throw in occasional scenes with the police interrogators and the cycle keeps repeating.

I feel this movie is getting way more praise than it deserves. It is by no means an awful movie. It has simply been blown out of proportion. It’s themes of predetermined actions and fate are way tired idea in movies and other creative mediums.

If the Oscars are supposed to be the judge of the creates picture of the year, I hope they have the sense to see that the emperor truly has no clothes when it comes to this movie.

And one more thing. Would people really love this movie so much if it wasn’t made in a foreign country?

The rest of your post is pretty moronic and doesn’t deserve rebuttal.

My biggest problem with the film (though I still enjoyed it in many parts) was the inconsistency of ‘Salim’ going from ally of the protagonist to antagonist between scenes with no reasoning or justification, the game show host stating he was a ’slumdog’ also for no reason. Both of these problems may have been the cause of scenes being dropped from the final cut (not that that is any excuse) but worst of all the film needed to make up its mind and take itself seriously or stick to being a feel-good tale. Opening the film with graphic torture and closing it with our protagonist solving all his life problems by winning a game show and performing a Bollywood dance sequence? No thanks.

While there should be Slumdog backlash (like any movie, it can’t be above negativity) it is also a much weaker batch a films this year and especially during award season. I’ve spent my break looking for the movie to wow me since Wall-E and The Dark Knight because this is ’supposed’ to be the time for great film. I was mildly disappointed by Milk and more so by Button. I liked Doubt but it wasn’t outstanding. Slumdog, however, won me over unlike anything else I’ve seen. It might of been the predictable but powerful love story, or the feel good dance credits. Still that film (and Man On Wire) had me mesmerized. There are still a lot of films I need to see (The Reader, Gran Torino, Rev. Road, and The Wrestler) but it is the best I’ve seen so far.