Slumdog Millionaire, Not so much a hit
By Emily Scott
“Slumdog Millionaire” may be highly acclaimed and held as many things, but for me I disagree. This movie was dark, depressing and disgusting at times throughout not to mention it was also a long slow moving movie.
“Slumdog Millionaire” was set and filmed in Mumbai, India. The film tells the story of 18-year-old Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) from the slums of Mumbai, India who is looking for the girl he loved and lost, Latika (Freida Pinto). Jamal is a contestant on India’s version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” He is just one question away from winning a million dollars when he is arrested on suspicion that he has been cheating.
As the movie begins Sergeant Srinivas (Saurabh Shukla) is slapping Jamal in the face, grabbing the back of his head and holding his head down in a bucket of water, and hangs him up by rope from the ceiling and even electrocuting him to just get him to answer their questions of how someone like him with no formal education knew all the answers.
It isn’t clear to the audience until later on in the film that all these flashbacks in the film are from Jamal’s life and explains how he knew the answers.
In another scene that is not only particularly disgusting but makes you want to gag at the same time is where youngest Jamal (Ayush Mahesh Khedekar) and younest Salim (Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail) are out at the outhouses and youngest Jamal is in the outhouse when Amitabh Bachchan’s (Feroz Abbas Khan) plane is spotted. Youngest Salim locks youngest Jamal in the outhouse and takes off with the rest of the people to meet Bachchan. When youngest Jamal can’t get out he decides to jump down into the pile of crap to escape and takes off to the airport to meet Bachchan and get his autograph.
One of the most painful parts in this film was when Maman (Ankur Vikal) does all kinds of evil things to the children, for example killing the boys and making the girls belly dancers, just so that people will feel sorry for the children and make them want to give money.
“Slumdog Millioaire” doesn’t deliver a “wow” performance and is not worth the time watching unless you are interested in learning history about India.
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I really liked your description of the different scenes... i really liked the tone that you used throughout the review.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I saw was when you mentioned the scene with Amitabh Bachchan (the actor) you never mention why seeing him was so important. Most people aren't going to know who he is so explaining just a bit "a famous bollywood star) will help.
ReplyDeleteI liked your strong opinion throughout the whole column. However there are a few grammar errors and when you're describing the scene that includes the youngest version of the children, the word "youngest" is a little too much.
ReplyDeleteYou definitely get your opinion out there; there's no question that you did not like this film.
ReplyDeleteThe description of scenes helps back up your opinion, but maybe balance it out with something positive so that the review doesn't just read as a bashing of the film.
Nice job, but there is no "news you can use" section. Also, the review ends very abruptly right after you describe a scene from their early childhood, you don't describe much that goes on in their teen years etc.
ReplyDeleteI also like your strong opinion throughout the article. I definitely know how you feel about the movie.
ReplyDeleteParagraphs three and five confuse me and need some grammatical structure.