I thought "Dickensian/Horatio Alger" is an oxymoron! Anyway what you say is true, but I liked the movie because it manages to be entertaining in spite of its grim subject matter, a feat that other movies on the subject of Mumbai misery ("Salaam Bombay") never achieved.On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:53 PM, <123hop@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:"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.
And I didn't get that subtext of fatalism..
-raghu.
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