On Tuesday, February 24 2009, 01:58 (+0530), Frederick Noronha [????????????????????? ?????????????????????] wrote: > Indeed, while this self-billed "feel good movie of the year" may help > us "feel good" that we are among the lucky ones on earth, it delivers > a patronizing, colonial and ultimately sham statement on social > justice for those who are not.
A rather irrelevant and pataphysical footnote to this critique: In my own attempt of compressing this year's Oscar-nominated films to full-length 1.44 MB files as part of my Floppy Films project [http://floppyfilms.pleintekst.nl/oscars_2009/], I also crunched "Slumdog Millionaire" to a 7x3 pixel/8fps/128 colors animated GIF [http://floppyfilms.pleintekst.nl/oscars_2009/slumdog/]. In such a stripped-to-the-bones rendering, the dominant color palette of the production design becomes quite visible. In the case of "Slumdog Millionaire", the dominance of red-brown-yellow 'curry' colors aptly reveals the whole exoticism of the film. [In contrast, "Milk" uses a bright pastel - milky - color palette while dark sepia tones dominate the 1940s/50s period setting of "The Reader", and a frequent combination of olive greens and magenta violets sets the white trash tone for "The Wrestler". Since everything else seems predictable enough, I didn't bother watching higher resolution versions of these films.] -F -- blog: http://en.pleintekst.nl homepage: http://cramer.pleintekst.nl:70 gopher://cramer.pleintekst.nl # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
