Movie Review: Slumdog Millionaire
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This film may be this year’s “Pan’s Labyrinth”, or “Life is
Beautiful”. A movie from overseas, directed by–oddly–Danny Boyle
(“Sunshine”, “28 Days Later”, “Trainspotting”), that transcends where
it’s from. Forget the subtitles, forget the fact that it takes place in
Mumbai. This is a story about people that we’ve seen in our own
backyards–even if they are tucked away in the bad neighborhoods. We’ve
seen the rags-to-riches stories.
And like so many cases, we blur the lines between our heroes and our villains in stories about rising up. But the villains in this story are multiple, and at times, subtle heroes as well. The story centers around …
