Movie: "Slumdog Millionaire"

[Quinny]

Just been to see it. Very good film, but IMO not in any way feelgood!

Came out feeling disgusted by the world we live in.

[mos6507]

Came out feeling disgusted by the world we live in.

You mean you weren't already disgusted?

[Sixstrings]

hm, what's the message of the story? Sort of like Steinbeck's _The Pearl_? (poor boy gets riches, his life gets screwed up, realizes how happy he was poor)

[Quinny]

Already disgusted MOS, but it just puts it in your face a bit.

General story is poor young guy drags himself up to the brink of riches chasing the love of his life. Difficult to say too much without spoiling, but some very graphic pictures of life in Mumbai slums.

Lots of threads re poverty, family, romance, corruption, crime....

[ohanian]

What not to like about this movie?

Dirt poor boy gets the girl of his dreams
Get torture for free
Get Rich without spending a lot of effort
Loses his money grubbing bother of a brother

Missing from the movie
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Dirt poor boy fuc ks girl of his dreams
Dirt poor boy kick the shit of the police who tortures him
Dirt poor boy tracks down the killer of his mother and kill him viciously

[Pops]

hm, what's the message of the story? Sort of like Steinbeck's _The Pearl_? (poor boy gets riches, his life gets screwed up, realizes how happy he was poor)

The Pearl and The Red Pony back-to-back book has been in my vehicle for years.

My Walmart parking lot entertainment, now getting kind of frayed.

But none much about PO tho...

[AlexdeLarge]

Behind the cinema fantasy, mafia gangs are deliberately crippling children for profit

Within minutes, a couple emerged from the crowd and approached him. They gave him cakes and said they’d take him away to start a better life. ‘I thought they were maybe social workers or religious people,’ he told me. But Aamir’s food was drugged and when he became drowsy, the couple put him in a rickshaw and took him to the city’s municipal hospital, which is where the real nightmare began. "

Hell is for children......

[ohanian]

Behind the cinema fantasy, mafia gangs are deliberately crippling children for profit

Within minutes, a couple emerged from the crowd and approached him. They gave him cakes and said they’d take him away to start a better life. ‘I thought they were maybe social workers or religious people,’ he told me. But Aamir’s food was drugged and when he became drowsy, the couple put him in a rickshaw and took him to the city’s municipal hospital, which is where the real nightmare began. "

Hell is for children......

You wanna see da real India?

Well here it is



India. Mumbai. 2006. A girl walks along a water pipe in the Industrial Area of Dharavi. Although it functions as a throroughfare through this area of the slum, the water in the pipes is headed for the more affluent southern areas of the city. Dharavi is one of Mumbai's biggest and longest standing slums. Home to somewhere between 600 000 and one million people, it is a beehive of recycling and manufacturing industries. However, Dharavi sits on prime real estate right in the heart of the booming megapolis, and is in close vicinity to the new Bandra-Kurla Complex, a new financial hub. Dharavi is now scheduled for redevelopment, meaning everything in the slum, for good and bad, is set to be demolished.

[Bryceb]

I was quite shocked that people would deliberately blind children to make them earn more as beggars.

[CrudeAwakening]

The film provides a nice escapist illusion to the effect that desperately poor people can use the power of their life experience to ascend an otherwise unclimbable ladder out of poverty. If only life was that simple.

I'll wait for the "riches to rags" version (bound to be a box-office hit) wherein an obscenely overpaid Wall Street investment bank CEO loses everything and ends up bumming around on the streets, turning tricks for loose change. A real tear-jerker..

[Consensi]

Came out feeling disgusted by the world we live in.

Yeah, pretty crappy world we humans created for ourselves.

Actual scenes of modern day mining ops, I believe in Brazil:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoOdhKYj8Bc