Emotional, beautiful and worth every penny. Danny Boyle succeeds in his flashback drama 'Slum Dog Millionaire'. An 18 year old orphan boy (Jamal Malik), from the slums of Mumbai, is one question away from winning 200 million Rupees on the Indian version game show of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'. Held in custody, (tortured) for the suspicion of cheating. Jamal explains to the police how he knew the answer to each question by reminiscing his childhood.
The actors brought a lot of emotion to the screen, the child actors especially. Some shots were strange but artistic, it brought tension to the chase scenes, the music also added. There was a continuity error that annoyed me, Jamal was tortured the night before he answered his last question but on the night it didn't look like he had been touched. One of my vivid memories of the film was when Jamal escapes from the toilet (a little shack with a hole in the floor) jumps into a shit pool, it looked so bad that i was holding my nose. I never thought i would enjoy 'Slum Dog Millionaire' as much as i did.
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