"Slum Dog Millionaire" is a tiresome piece of feel-good Dickensian/Horatio Alger narrative, which gets its color and emotional content from the misery of the Mumbai poor. The sub-text however is pretty egregious: "it is all fated" -- logically both the misery of the masses and the success of the protagonist.
The really good movies out there are "Let the Right One In" -- a magnificent (but grim) Swedish film about two children living in the working class suburbs of Stockholm. One is an angelic blond boy, the other a swarthy big-eyed vampire girl. Check it out. "Revolutionary Road" -- great acting; a story about America after the second world war. The subtext IS the second world war and the general drift towards suburban anesthesia and forgetting. On the surface it's about a marriage gone sour. Joanna _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
