{"id":2446,"date":"2009-01-18T22:16:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T03:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2009-01-18T22:17:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T03:17:34","slug":"slumdog-millionaire-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/01\/18\/slumdog-millionaire-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Slumdog Millionaire&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/35o5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 Stars\" \/><br \/>\nFor an arthouse film that isn&#8217;t in many mainstream theaters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1010048\/\"><em>Slumdog Millionaire<\/em><\/a> has been getting a lot of buzz and picking up a lot of awards. It&#8217;s pretty well done, but if you go in expecting an upbeat feel-good picture you may be in for a bit of a shock, since most of it is surprisingly dark and gritty.<\/p>\n<p>Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) is a contestant on the Indian version of <em>Who Wants to be a Millionaire<\/em>. He is one question away from winning the big 20M rupee prize when he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. The police try to beat a confession out of him, replaying each question in turn and challenging him to explain how he could possibly have known the answer. For each question there is a flashback to his experiences growing up in the slums of Mumbai. At some point in each story is a incident that caused him to know the answer.<\/p>\n<p>It becomes clear that his real motivation for going on the show is not the money. He want to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart Latika (Freida Pinto).<\/p>\n<p>There is a fair amount of humor in the flashbacks, but mostly they are very grim, depicting a world of extreme poverty, violence and cruelty. Some Indians have protested this depiction of their country. (It doesn&#8217;t help that this is a British production, though filmed in India with Indian actors.) Still it&#8217;s probably fair to say that most of the things depicted in the movie really do happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For an arthouse film that isn&#8217;t in many mainstream theaters, Slumdog Millionaire has been getting a lot of buzz and picking up a lot of awards. It&#8217;s pretty well done,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/01\/18\/slumdog-millionaire-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-slumdog-millionaire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2450,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}