Feel Good Fairy Tale

Rating: 8/10 (12 August 2009)

When you watch the beginning it's almost clear, what will happen at the end. Still Danny Boyle keeps it fresh and gives us flashbacks of what happened up to that point. Flashbacks that are sometimes pretty violent. No wonder some Studios seemed to have a problem with promoting the movie. Although as Historz will show, it was their miss (just count the Oscars the movie won).
Danny Boyle really went all the way and took some chances. Casting unknowns (Freida Pinto makes her first on screen appearance, I don't even know what she did prior to filming "Slumdog"), tackling a subject matter that is unusual to say the least and being graphic and sometimes pretty brutal too, this was anything but a calculated Oscar movie. For that you alone you have to salute him.
Overall a very good movie then (see my Summary line), with a few things that I didn't quite like. The story is too fairy tale, the brothers decision to change his mind and help Dev's character etc. etc. Things that were almost too fairy tale for my taste and didn't work 100% with the rest of the movie. Those are only minor things and 8/10 is pretty good in my book.