Review of Slumdog Millionaire (2008) by Mickelwick — 23 Jan 2013

Slumdog millionaire is just a group of plot devices moving through a childishly contrived plot,.

Doing solely what said plot requires them to do, with no heart to make me believe otherwise.

These anti-characters go through NO developmentslumdog millionaire is just a group of plot devices moving through a childishly contrived plot,.

Doing solely what said plot requires them to do, with no heart to make me believe otherwise.

These anti-characters go through NO development or change whatsoever, they begin the terrible.

"story" as good or evil, with no grey area, and remain good or evil when the "story" ends, they don't even have much personality, jamal is good... because he's good, latika is good...

Because she's good, saleem is bad... because he's bad... they have no logical motivation, and.

Before you try and tell me that saleem killing the owner of an orphanage/brothel is what made.

Him evil... NO, saleem lets go of latika when they're escaping, saleem locks jamal inside a toilet, forcing him to swim through feces to get out (which is played for laughs)... saleem is a terrible person before he shoots the guy, and he's a terrible person after he shoots the.

Guy... the fact that these aren't characters means the only time I care about anyone in the entire movie, is when saleem, latika and jamal are children... solely because they're little children, and nobody with a conscience can refuse to care about children who go through.

Horrific torture and... WAIT WHAT??? that's right, this film centres around the torturing of children, the prostitution of children, the emotional suffering of children, you get the point, now let me explain why this is a problem, THIS IS WIDELY ACCEPTED AS ONE OF THE BEST FEEL-GOOD MOVIES OF 2008, doesn't the physical/sexual/emotional abuse of children just make any sane person feel all warm and fuzzy inside? I SINCERELY HOPE NOT! jamal and saleem had a terrible childhood which is revealed through flashbacks as terrible.

As the things they depict, it is from these flashbacks that jamal knows all the answers to.

The questions presented in an indian "who wants to be a millionaire" (which is impossble to.

Cheat in, because only the host knows the questions/answers, and every variation of the show.

Only uses LANDLINES to prevent connection failure, which renders two major plot points in the film completely invalid), but the most gaping plot holes arise when two of these flashbacks DO NOT EVEN GIVE JAMAL THE ANSWER, OR THE CHANCE FOR JAMAL TO FIGURE OUT THE.

ANSWER!!!

Oh, and they don't show jamal completing the general knowledge questions REQUIRED to appear.

On every variation of the show, which he would have failed at, because he is unaware that.

Ghandi is on every piece of indian currency (even though he clearly earns indian money.

Throughout the movie), if he doesn't know that, how much more does he not know? this alone.

Renders the ENTIRE PLOT invalid...

Jamal went on the show because latika loves the show, and he loves latika, which is oh so.

IMPOSSIBLE TO BELIEVE BECAUSE JAMAL AND LATIKA HAVE NO CHEMISTRY, THEY HAVE NO COMMON.

INTERESTS, THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE AN IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION IN THE ENTIRE MOVIE, this is what I meant when I said 'no logical motivation' jamal and latika are in love solely because the plot needs them to be, and dear god does it show.

Oh, and then there's the ending, now, all throughout the movie, there is a consistent theme: money is evil, so what happens... HE WINS!!! if the movie had any logical messages he would have lost, and realised, alongside the audience, that money isn't everything, but no...

Let me leave you with this: slumdog millionaire won eight oscars.