Danny Boyle’s latest offering, Slumdog Millionaire, is generating a fair amount of buzz here at Telluride. Not unlike last year’s Juno, the film showed up in one of the mysterious TBA slots, delighting audiences made weary by a slate of good but somewhat depressing films, such as Hunger, Waltz with Bashir and Adam Resurrected. Slumdog Millionaire follows the story of Jamal Malik, an unlikely winner of India’s version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Jamal, his brother Samir, and fellow orphan Latika, manage to survive an almost absurd number of scrapes, the memory of each one coincidentally providing Jamal with answers to the game show questions. The film is big, fast, fun, and colorful, but ultimately a mess.
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Filmmakers Korey Green and Addison Henderson grew up in the impoverished ghetto of Buffalo, NY and they have one agenda: Show people the suffering of their friends and neighbors. As insiders from the neighborhood, they take their camera into places middle class America has never seen. Sometimes scattered, the film makes no thesis statement about poverty. But as I spoke with the filmmakers, it became clear the point is just to show the world the people of what they call, The Forgotten City.
Starz Denver Film Festival, spout.com podcast
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