Slumdog Millionaire Review

Bottom-Line: Despite the depressing setting Slumdog Millionaire is strangely uplifting and hopeful and in the end is a movie the whole family can and most likely will enjoy.

Directed by Danny Boyle Marc Foster (The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine) Slumdog Millionaire (winner of 8 Oscars including Best Picture) takes place in the world's most populace city, Mumbai (Bombay), the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra.  Here young brothers Jamal and Salim Malik watch in horror as their mother, and scores of others, are set upon and killed for being Muslim, thus casting the brothers and another orphan, a girl named Latika adrift in the teaming slums of Mumbai. 

Jamal and Latika form and instant attachment to one another that is to last throughout the film and form the basis for this love story.  

My Viewpoint  

Despite the brittle and often brutal edges of Slumdog Millionaire the movie is at its heart an enduring love story set against a backdrop of misery and despair.  The movie was brilliantly directed, shot and acted and well deserves the accolades it received including 8 Oscars.

Slumdog Millionaire immerses the us in an totally alien landscape and goes on to portray it through the eyes of a young boy and man fighting day-to-day to survive. And it leaves us wondering how he and his fellows survive at all living in such squalid conditions and where every adult is out to exploit them. 

Despite the depressing setting Slumdog Millionaire is strangely uplifting and hopeful and in the end is a movie the whole family can and most likely will enjoy