Slumdog Millionaire

Yeah, it's really as good as everyone says. Slumdog Millionaire has a name that doesn't say "see me" but the title fits and the movie works. Set in Mumbai, the story follows Jamal, a product of the slums and street life as he inexplicably finds himself on the Indian version of "Who wants to be a millionaire" and on his path to the million. The life of a slumdog is told through Jamal's story of how he knows the answers to the questions during his police interrogation for fraud.

Slumdog Millionaire takes us into the life of a street child and what survival is like for those children. This isn't pretty and it's not pleasant but since the story is told through the eyes of the child living it, the abnormal situations to us the audience are simply life to the child.

Flashbacks present the key moments in the life of Jamal, his brother, and Jamal's childhood crush Lakita. The audience has the dilemma of do you support survival of the characters at any cost and when do you stop supporting them? Do we care about Jamal and his run at Millionaire? We do.

The movie is in both Hindi and English so sometimes you're reading and sometimes not. To me, this wansn't distracting as if you were reading a whole movie but gave another dimension to the story as first the children only spoke one language and then acquired another.

Slumdog Millionaire - just go for it.