"Slumdog Millionaire"

"Slumdog Millionaire" is a show filled with action and drama.  Jamal is so close to winning 20 million rupees he can almost taste it but then he is accused of cheating.  As Jamal is questioned on how he knows all the answers the film unfolds to show how each of the questions has had something to do with his life.  I enjoyed this movie a lot with a different story appearing in the different scenes which made it unpredictable except for the predictable happily ever after ending.

This movie was shot on location which proved to work very well for it.  Each of the different houses in the slums had a distinct color to them that made it come to life.  The children on the streets with their dirty faces and torn clothes made them seem like the real deal.  At some points it looks like a documentary being filmed with the shaky camera shots but that made it seem more realistic.  With the whole story of Jamal cheating it always comes back to him finding and then losing Latika again and again.

This is a version of the normal love story with a different kind of twist to it.  Jamal is on a gameshow in the hopes that Latika will see him there and come back into his life again.  This movie is very fast moving and jumps from one idea to another while keeping the flowing motion of it.  It is all tied to how the questions on the show are related to events that have happened in Jamal's life that have helped him to advance to the final stages of the game.

The lighting at the end of the movie was genius.  When Jamal and Latika are in the train station and the camera zooms up to them and the sun is shining on them.  It illuminates them kind of saying to the audience that this is it, they finally found each other.  They utilized the fact that the sun was lower in the sky when filming which made it at the opportune position when filming.

When they did the slow motion shot while Latika was driving to Jamal it wasn't neccessary in my opinion.  I feel like that is overdone in movies and that there really is no point to it.  I think it slows down the movie's pace instead of allowing it to keep flowing.  This movie did flow very well though throughout it.  It did not get dull or boring like some tend to do during the middle portions.  I liked how they did the relationship between Jamal and Salim.  It showed how brothers will pick on each other and make each other mad but in the end they will always stick up for each other and help one another out.

The temporal factor was very well carried out throughout the film.  They started out with the characters as small children and it followed them all the way up to adulthood.  They kept this consistent with the development of India.  It went from being mostly slums to having more and more businesses.  It allowed me to see the development of not only the boys but also the area where they grew up.

All in all excellent movie.  I wouldn't mind watching it again and hopefully trying to catch more things that I might of missed.