Great humanizing story, but hard to not think about the importance of good family planning

Rating: 8/10 (2 February 2009)

The wonderful gimmick of the movie is that each question a) calls up more or less in sequence a formative incident in Jamal's life, and b) as the incidents get closer to his current life we see Jamal is on a lifelong mission to find Latika once again and make her his own. As my lady friend remarked, the movie is "relentless;" one doesn't get much in the way of a break. It seems one or the other of the characters has to urgently get from point A to point B or to crawl figuratively over hot coals to find someone or something critical to his purpose.
And seeing this one at the theater, these days the sound guys feel they have to break your ear drums with the music or sound effects or they're not doing their jobs. Geez, about the only thing you can do is give in to the high decibel level, and fortunately the sound-visual-action qualities of this particular film are mentally absorbing. (I wasn't so complimentary of the Dark Knight experience, mainly because all the noise seemed to signify violence.) So, I'm not cool with the loud, but at least it's loud with a high-quality foundation.
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