Rooting for the Underdog – Slumdog Millionaire
Posted: 27th Aug 2009 (0 comments)
By Robert K. Johnston and Catherine M. Barsotti
Slumdog Millionaire combines a compelling story with winsome child actors, startling visuals and pulsing music composed by Bollywood’s (India’s) best, A.R. Rahman. As such, the movie captivates its audience and sends us from the theater singing, buoyed with hope and joy.
Slumdog Millionaire continues the wonderful narrative filmmaking of Danny Boyle, a Brit whose “G” rated film Millions was inspirational, and whose much grittier movie Trainspotting first gained him his much deserved reputation as one of this generation’s finest independent filmmakers. Boyle is typically interested in portraying the sublime, even (or particularly) in squalor, hardship and pain, and Slumdog Millionaire is no exception. As a reviewer writes, it is “one of the most upbeat stories about living in hell imaginable”!
