Slumdog Millionaire

Paper Planes By MIA



I just watched it yesterday, interesting story line and conveyance of the story. Touching and emotional scenes. Story is told layer by layer, like savoring a delightful piece of kueh lapis. Consuming it layer by layer, as the protagonist tells his story explaining how his life experiences, coincidentally enabled him to answer all the questions.

The movie gives you a insightful impression of how people live in slums in India. Slums still exist in Mumbai. Shows you a part of the country that most of us would not visit or care to visit. The living conditions and daily lives of people living in the slums.

I've actually been to something of a slum in Indonesia before. For the record, the colour of the water in the stream running thru the slum was BLUE.

The movie also portrays scenes of senseless religiously motivated violence, which to be honest is not limited to only India, but also parts of the world at this moment. It also shows how young children are vulnerable to exploitation, children being crippled and blinded on purpose to work as beggars for syndicates. Again to be fair, such shocking treatment of children is not limited to only India.

Very entertaining, another amazing work by Danny Boyle. A definite must watch movie.