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""Slumdog Millionaire""

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Anonymous Takahata Y said...

I thought this movie exploited barely of the possibilities of the setting. Having visited Bombay, I find it a very confusing and unique place, a mish-mash of educated and uneducated, rich and poor, westernized and traditional, etc...a city of opposites. They didn't exploit that in this movie at all. Heck the film could have taken place in New York. Why even have the foreign setting?

6/27/09, 6:38 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

i was actually surprised they showed muslims getting wacked by hindu mobs...but most people who I talked to who saw it didn't even pick that up.

In the book which the movie's based on I think the main character's name is Thomas Ram Muhumed, and he was first raised by a priest (thus thomas)

6/27/09, 7:38 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kind of OT but 28 Days later did not have zombies per se. The movie had plague victims who were alive. That's why they were fast. They had mutant rabies from Hell.

Back OT no way no how would I see the Slumdog movie. It just sounds too damn hokie and contrived.

6/27/09, 9:02 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

i was actually surprised they showed muslims getting wacked by hindu mobs

You shouldn't be. Movies in India are just as left wing as movies here. When you hear "Hindu mobs", think "Christian abortion clinic bombers". When you hear "sectarian violence", think "cycle of violence". The point is to overstate the frequency of the *occasional* violent reaction by the civilized majority (Christians, Hindus, Jews) and always omit the regular Muslim violence.

The reality is that India is subject to more Muslim terrorist attacks than any place in the world other than Iraq (with Israel at #3).

The media is covering it up, but every once in a while a bit of truth comes out, at least if you have your secret decoder ring on:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/world/asia/29india.html

Over the past several years, terrorist attacks in India have become an everyday presence in everyday places. The targets seem to have nothing in common except that they are ordinary and brazenly easy to strike.

A report last year by the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington concluded that from January 2004 to March 2007, the death toll from terrorist attacks in India was 3,674, second only to that in Iraq during the same period.

So of course with this as backdrop we are treated to movies like Slumdog about heroic Muslims and vile Hindus. Just as we get wall-to-wall coverage in the US about von Brunn and none about the Wichita Massacre.

6/27/09, 9:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Would you mind making a page where readers could see links to all of your movie reviews, excepting American Conservative ones that haven't hit DVD? Your current page only shows movies up to 2006.

6/28/09, 2:52 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...


You shouldn't be. Movies in India are just as left wing as movies here. When you hear "Hindu mobs", think "Christian abortion clinic bombers".

Muslims dominated and control the Hindi film industry - just like jews do here. Notice how many male 'khan' actors there are - the actresses, however are usually hindi, the same, increasingly in hollywood, they are phasing out the Gentile male lead and keeping the pretty shiska (only so far you can stretch people's imaginations)

That said, India's main violence is from the ultra nationalist (hindi) parties, and they also attack Christians.

6/28/09, 8:14 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

That said, India's main violence is from the ultra nationalist (hindi) parties, and they also attack Christians.

There is probably at least an order of magnitude greater violence, murder and ethnic cleansing caused by Christians against Hindus than vice versa in India.

6/28/09, 11:13 PM

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