The ads of Slumdog Millionaire is everywhere. Curiosity strucked me when it won 8 Oscar awards, so I watched it, wondering why the jurors were hypnotized.
Best Sound Mixing and Best Original Song:
I have nothing against the music. It did deserve the award. I like the choice of background music in every scene. Jai Ho sounds good as well.
Best Original Score: The touch of originality is what hits the Oscar jurors. The combination of fact and fiction.
My Views:
Slumdog hits the worldwide movie industry because of its true story like presentation. But what the casts did not take consideration was if it would affect the reputation of India as a country. The movie shows India's slum areas and other crap stuffs. I think every country has bad stuffs like this. They don't have to show too much of it.
The best thing about this movie is a person can do anything for LOVE. The leading man didn't join the contest to win money but to win the heart of the girl he loves but he ended up having both. Also, this movie shows that experience is really the BEST TEACHER.
I believe movies are like windows of a country. It depicts the physical aspects, the culture and even the attitude of the countrymen. Slumdog emphasized too much of Indian bakwaas (crap). It hits the world with an awareness how Indians are, in general (whether true or not). Other countries don't show crap stuffs of their country because reputation matters to them.
Slumdog gained reputation in the Oscars but it somewhat destroy the country's reputation as one of the civilized and developing Asian country.
India is a country associated with business and technology. But after Slumdog shown worldwide, they associate India as slums which is NOT right. Who's fault is it?
3 comments:
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Hi! I saw Slumdog 3 days after it was released. This was before any sort of issues came out of it, when it was just a movie; to be watched & yet to be hyped.
The music no doubt is good, but i really don't understand what is going on in the world about showing crap n stuff in the movie.
As an Indian, I am proud of my nation, however it is, whatever it is.
If I have the right to feel proud of my nation on its acheivements, then I must understand & acknowledge that like every country, we also have a soft, unexposed dirty, maybe filthy underbelly.
NO one will stop us if we go to any other country like USA, England, Japan or any other part of the world n make a movie about their slums. Then why such a hue n cry on this particular movie?
Slumdog Millionaire; at the end of the day is just a movie to be watched. That's all..
If you are really moved by anything shown in the movie, then instead of criticizing, one should have the audacity to stand up n say that this is my country, N it is my responsibility to change it...
Where is that voice??? Maybe it will also rise from some slum only... Let's wait till then...
Aloha...
haha-cheers to JT!
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