Thursday, January 22, 2009

Slumdog Millionaire

About the Oscars--there are more invested people out there. All I can say is that Benjamin Button was much ado--and by ado I mean, star-power, running time, special effects and directorial willfulness--about nothing, a film that failed to even bother to examine its own main conceit (if you skip over the young-old person, you've passed up all our opportunities to say anything about aging; who knows what went through the old-young Brad's head?). But it's more bougeois, more liberal than its parent (older sibling--gentically, nothing's been added), Forrest Gump so why not? Slumdog is certainly an underdog, making up in chutzpa what it might lack in innovation. Dickens forever!

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