Re: [Pen-l] RE: Movies...

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

JD wrote
> "fatalism isn't really that important to "slumdog millionaire"
> (pronouced "millinair"). The hero is lucky, yes, but some of process
> of getting to the end is hellish."

<123hop@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In the movie, the hero keeps saying that the outcome "was meant to be" or some such. In other words, it was his fate to win the game show.<

yeah, the movie ends with "it is written." But that could be dropped
without changing the movie much at all. In fact, to me it sounded like
a joke, since the hero has to struggle a lot. There's a gigantic
coincidence that his life happened to give him the experience that
allowed him to answer the game-show questions, but given that
(voluntary suspension of belief) it seemed pretty human to me.

> The fact that the process is hellish is what justifies the big win. This is the founding myth of capitalism. It starts with Robinson Crusoe;

The hero of SDM as Robinson Crusoe type? give me a break. The flick is
all about human relations (with his brother and to-be girlfriend,
between them, and with various gangsters and the like). It's not about
an isolated person.

Sure it's got a Big Happy Fairy Tale ending. But that just tells me
that it's a myth. It's a movie.

-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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