Slumdog Millionaire

cangel
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:19:00 +0000

I thought it was a great movie, and while some of it was disturbing and hard to watch, others parts were uplifting. During the early scene where the boys are being chased by the airport police, the music and laughter show joy of children in an environment where there is little joy. The innocence that gets lost.
One thing that hit me was the theme of the damage religion had done to India. Maybe I read too much into the movie, but I thought that Jamal’s story was somewhat of a metaphor for the modernization of India, and that religious conflict was a cause of Indian problems.