I wouldn't call it a 'feel good movie', but it's definitely great

Rating: 8/10 (27 March 2009)

(Very) Global: Slumdog millionaire is about a boy who grows up in different towns/cities in Inda, as a 'slumdog'. When he loses the love is his life, he's going to enter a television show called 'Who wants to be a millionaire?' (Dutch people might know it as 'Lotto Weekend Miljonairs'), in the hope she'll watch and come and meet him. In the beginning, no one thought the Slumdog would win ANY money, but because of his rich life experience and is horrible way of living, he knows almost every answer by himself. He ends up winning the jackpot; 20.000.000 rps.
At first I didn't really know what to think about slumdog millionaire. I thought people only thought it was great BECAUSE it won eight Oscars, and not that it won eight Oscars BECAUSE it was great. But in the beginning of the movie I was immediately intrigued by the life Jamar and his family had to live trough. And I had the idea (especially in the beginning) that Jamar was the ONLY nice person in the whole movie. From is schoolteacher to the police, and from the police to the showhost, everyone treated him like crap. And the amazingly way of acting (extra compliments for the actors who played the little versions of the characters), made it even heavier, intenser, but more exciting and sweat to watch.
Trough the whole movie the watcher is smacked in the face by terrible (and sadly realistic) stuff that's happening in the cities of India and it's slums. Corruption here, child prostitution there. But the movie amazingly balanced it all out by putting jokes in it that really made me laugh (and again; the little actors were a big factor in this matter).
So my conclusion is; Besides the predictable and lame ending (and that's not even about the typical bollywood dance part), the movie was a great adventure that figuratively grabbed me from my seat and pulled me in to the screen. The acting, the writing and the AMAZINGLY direction gave you mixed feelings, but not at all in a negative way.
9/10