Arindam Chaudhari finds blinkered retarted imperialism!
http://arindamchaudhuri.blogspot.com/2009/01/dont-see-slumdog-millionaire-it-sucks.html
A phony poseur that has been made only to mock India for the viewing
pleasure of the First World!!
The emperor’s new clothes! That’s “Slumdog Millionaire” for you…
Five minutes into this celebrated patchwork of illogical clichés and
you are struck by the jarring dialogues. The cumbersome delivery in
a language which doesn’t come naturally to most of the actors sounds
like someone scratching on walls with one’s finger nails; it ruins
the possibility of a connection… Had this film been made by an
Indian director, it would’ve been trashed as a rotting old hat,
which literally stands out only because of its stench, but since the
man making it happens to be from the West, we’re all left
celebrating the emperor’s new clothes. The film borrows an
undoubtedly interesting narrative style – from films like “City of
God” – but then uses it to weave in a collection of clichés from the
Third World’s underbelly for the viewing pleasure of a First World
audience. The real slumdog in the movie is not the main protagonist
but India as a whole… The makers and those celebrating this movie’s
hard-to-spot brilliance are actually serving up India as the
accidental millionaire, which in fact happens to be a slumdog… and
like shameless fools we are gloating over its success without
realising that it makes a caricature out of India.
Holy shit, this guy is insecure!!! ;-)
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