[Pen-l] Movies...

To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Pen-l] Movies...
From: 123hop@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:53:41 +0000

"Slum Dog Millionaire" is a tiresome piece of feel-good Dickensian/Horatio Alger narrative, which gets its color and emotional content from the misery of the Mumbai poor. The sub-text however is pretty egregious: "it is all fated" -- logically both the misery of the masses and the success of the protagonist.

The really good movies out there are 

"Let the Right One In" -- a magnificent (but grim) Swedish film about two children living in the working class suburbs of Stockholm. One is an angelic blond boy, the other a swarthy big-eyed vampire girl. Check it out.

"Revolutionary Road" -- great acting; a story about America after the second world war. The subtext IS the second world war and the general drift towards suburban anesthesia and forgetting. On the surface it's about a marriage gone sour.

Joanna
_______________________________________________
pen-l mailing list
pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [Pen-l] Movies...
  - From: ravi
- Re: [Pen-l] Movies...
  - From: raghu

Prev by Date: [Pen-l] new radio product
Next by Date: [Pen-l] Krugman Watch
Previous by thread: [Pen-l] new radio product
Next by thread: Re: [Pen-l] Movies...
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread

Thread context:
- [Pen-l] high fructose poison syrup, Jim Devine Tue 27 Jan 2009, 13:53 GMT
  - Re: [Pen-l] high fructose poison syrup, Dan Scanlan Tue 27 Jan 2009, 19:46 GMT
- [Pen-l] Hunters and hunted, Jayson Funke Tue 27 Jan 2009, 00:14 GMT
- [Pen-l] Krugman Watch, Michael Perelman Mon 26 Jan 2009, 23:30 GMT
- [Pen-l] Movies..., 123hop Mon 26 Jan 2009, 22:26 GMT
  - Re: [Pen-l] Movies..., raghu Tue 27 Jan 2009, 02:25 GMT
    - Re: [Pen-l] Movies..., Anthony D'Costa Tue 27 Jan 2009, 11:20 GMT
      
      Re: [Pen-l] Movies..., Jim Devine Tue 27 Jan 2009, 13:46 GMT
      
      Re: [Pen-l] Movies..., ravi Tue 27 Jan 2009, 14:22 GMT

[ Other Periods | Other mailing lists | Search ]