With a whole bunch of critic awards under it's belt and rave reviews left and right I decided that I had to see this movie that many are using such praises as "joyous," "triumphant," and "celebratory" to describe. The film trails the lives of a boy named Jamal and his brother Salim through their lives as "slumdogs" in India. Jamal has made it onto Who Wants to be A Millionaire in India and we see his life as a series of flashbacks related to answering the questions and through those flashbacks we meet Latika, the love of Jamal's life. As the last piece of plot I will give away Latika is the reason Jamal went on WWTBAM so that she would see him and be able to find him as he had no idea where she was. The story is wonderful, the performances are perfectly fitted for this movie, never once is an emotion forced out of the audience, and the whole time Director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later, Trainspotting) never loses his directorial flourish. That all the pieces come together so well is one of the miracles of the movie, but the praises extend more to the overwhelming heart and joy and unrestrained passion with which the movie is pulled. It is being touted as the frontrunner of the best picture oscar winner this year and this reviewer thinks it is more than deserving.
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