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Eight Oscars, which is a lot. We can and will long argue about whether "Slumdog Millionaire" really is so great that he deserves them all. But no matter how it finds itself - that Hollywood's Academy this film holds for so grandiose, it is understandable: "Slumdog Millionaire", this for relatively little money in India, turned independent film by the British director Danny Boyle ( "Trainspotting"), is deep in his heart great classic Hollywood cinema, as Hollywood itself is now little more how.
Meanwhile, most know what it is: The slums grew up in Jamal (Dev Patel) from Mumbai is the Indian edition of "Who will be a millionaire" just before the main prize. So far, he may only have brought with fraud, the police, drags him to the interrogation, torture a little, and can be explained and the viewer, where Jamal all know what he knows. Because for most of the questions to him in the show were, Jamal has anecdotes from his life at hand, it has long been the responses have taught - whether it is a Hindu deity or who goes on the back of a 100 dollar note is displayed.
He tells how he and his devious brother Salim as small boys have been orphaned, as they grew up in misery, like the small Latika the two connected and has at Jamal's great love was, and how they all three in the catch of a gangster advised and that their paths have separated. And slowly it becomes clear that Jamal is not in the show is because he the big money behind her is. Because, as it is for a noble hero film belongs to him is above all about love.
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"Slumdog Millionaire", after the novel "rupees! Rupees!" by Vikas Swarup is so colorful and loud, funny and fast as you would rarely see in the cinema, but behind the modern, hip-styled pseudo-Bollywood facade hides a good portion of old-fashioned narrative cinema, a feel-good movie Hollywood School: The simple story of a climber on the super-rich ends, lined with a few fun, a few bad guys, a little social criticism and a lot of romance.
The characters do not have to be complex - Jamal is the noble knight, Latika (as an adult played by Freida Pinto), the beautiful princess who is to be rescued, and his brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) is the right of way has lost Hallodri. Good deeds in this world after a certain passion always rewarded and bad is always punished. The feelings are great, the absurd and unrealistic coincidences (destiny! Predetermine!), And Boyle is not afraid of cliché, whether he has a little water boarding during police interrogation shows, or stupid tourists at the Taj Mahal.
But it all fits together in "Slumdog Millionaire" because this is a film that focuses on the heart and exactly true. And that does not work with understatement. Boyle unleashed an earthquake of a film, a storm, everything and everyone wants to be snapped up. At breakneck speed he flogs the story forward, something always happens anywhere is something to discover, there is a barely time to breath, until completely predictable, but still staggeringly exciting staged finale.
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At the end there is a big Bollywood dance number with all Beiteiligten at the station, simply because it is fun. That should be enough for everyone to confirm that there is not a realistic image of India, or a serious commentary about class differences. This is the game of life as a fairy tale told, and everybody who might be taking, is an excellent mood to leave the cinema. This is the great performance of "Slumdog Millionaire." In the Oscars is not to be measured.
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