a powerful idea turned in to a cliché

Rating: 1/10 (19 January 2009)

this is not a 'feel good' movie. or it shouldn't be.
Boyle showed us the anti-American dream. The idea that you should accept your cruel destiny without questioning and that a lower caste person could not possibly become successful, and I'm not talking only about the protagonist, but about all the people in the slums and the others surrounding them. How could it be that they simply don't conceive the possibility that a low caste guy could become successful. he has to be prevented of doing so, and punished.
Instead of exploring this sad and terrible aspect of Indian culture, and produce a deeper reflection about it, Boyle turned the movie into a cliché love history. what a waste.