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Danny BoyleScreenplay:
Simon BeaufoyCinematography:
Anthony Dod MantleComposer:
A.R. RahmanCast:
Dev Patel, Saurabh Shukla, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor, Rajendranath Zutshi, Irrfan Khan, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Mahesh Manjrekar (more)VOD (1)
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Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is just one question away from winning a fortune on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But how has this uneducated young man from the slums succeeded in providing correct responses to questions that have stumped countless scholars before him? And will he ultimately win it all or lose everything, including his true love? (official distributor synopsis)
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A charming film with an amazing atmosphere that warms the heart and caresses the soul. I don’t think the comparisons with City of God are that appropriate, even though they are logical. Whereas City of God is a cold and cumbersome construct without personality, Slumdog Millionaire is a warm, viewer friendly and, above all, brisk fairytale that doesn’t have any big message, but it’s all the more honest because of that. Danny Boyle has proven many times that he’s a visual wizard, but now he delivers a perfect fusion of images and music. Basically, in every scene with an important song all I could do was watch the screen with admiration and amazement – so many ideas and tricks is not something you see every day. I don’t think it’s a worthy best film of the year, but the direction really does deserve an award.
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Slumdog Millionaire is essentially the new Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It will be just as influential. It is a love story from an exotic corner of the world, which the ordinary viewer would otherwise never see, told in a universal language. And the Indians will try to convince you (as the Chinese tried to do at the time) that they have been making such films for decades. No, they haven’t. Someone had to come from abroad and take out their Western European lens. Slumdog Millionaire is not a Bollywood film, but a firework-like celebration of Bollywood as a film culture with all its romanticism. In its beautiful love story, Slumdog Millionaire fully utilizes the splendors and miseries of the Indian microcosm, thus making it attractive for the audience in an imaginative and fresh way. It is a small and unobtrusive film gem that shines more than any Los Angeles jewelry store where Benjamin Button goes shopping. Slumdog Millionaire is a movie celebrating life, faith and positive thinking; a movie that wasn’t made to become the award-winning film of the year... and that is why it deserves it. Nowadays this film is a small miracle. And Danny Boyle is a god. P.S: Jen Lopez and Rosario Dawson might have Freida Pinto’s features but not her eyes. No Hollywood actress has Freida Pinto’s eyes...
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An exploitative film... a selectively filmed and sounded demonstration of colonial fantasy with added value in the form of purifying catharsis. Slumdog Millionaire doesn't say anything about India, it's just borrowing it as padding in sympathetic shrapnel aimed at Western audiences. The essence of contemporary ideological escapism, however riveting technically. I don't believe anything about that movie. Boyle's obsession with the invisible hand of fate is typical from this point of view - just garish colors on an empty concrete block of a "guaranteed hit".
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An inexact celluloid carousel of life. Crime, fate, tension, and personal drama. And above all, a cautious love story, which is precisely the decisive factor that separates Slumdog Millionaire from other biographical stories. Accompanied by a soundtrack on the verge of dynamic Danny Boyle style and a fascinating orchestra, it becomes clear that the audience needs "human stories". Thank goodness for that.
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A cleverly told fairy tale about a) luck, b) faith, c) life, d) Who Wants to be a Millionaire, which can catch a person’s attention even though they don’t particularly like this kind of sob story. This is a story about a tiny squirt Jamal whose life led him on the journey of answers, which Danny Boyle managed to capture to the very last detail. He managed beautifully to portray the ludicrousness of the civilized world, where, for instance, after one drastic scene from childhood, the show host cracks a cheap joke. The actors are well cast too, both the small ones, and Dev Patel himself, with the beautiful Frida Pinto. P.S.: Did you notice those questions aimed at an English-speaking audience at the end of the contest?
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