i know everyone has different taste in movies. and no one's taste is superior.
but...
slumdog millionaire.
best picture?
really?
i'm not saying it was a bad movie. it was a unique plot. it was a good movie. but a great movie? i don't think so. if i hadn't known it won best picture, i would have stopped watching after 10 or 15 minutes, because nothing interesting was happening. ok, so that's a lie. i always finish movies, even bad ones. but theoretically...i would have stopped.
and the weirdest part to me...
in every preview i saw for this movie, it had clips of them dancing by the trains. so i thought this was going to be some sort of weird indian musical or something.
but that wasn't even part of the movie. that was part of the credits.
why in the world would they put clips from the credits in the previews?
maybe i'm missing something. someone will probably comment and explain why the dancing part was significant. and i'd love to know, so please do.
today i finished reading "the reason for God" by tim keller (who may someday be deemed a great author), and i'm starting macbeth by shakespeare. and most people agree...shakespeare is pretty great.
i read "much ado about nothing" once. it was funny. i've heard macbeth is "great."
educated and uneducated people alike appreciated his plays. at least that's what my word-a-day calendar said. the word was "groundlings."
does the fact that i refer to a word-a-day calendar as a source of knowledge discredit everything i say?
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haha this makes me laugh because my roommate sarah absolutely loved slumdog millionaire. but she also loved the movie about selena, so i don't know. i think she just likes movies that are about something other than white people haha.
--Emily, your sister
The dancing part. I will explain the significance. When they were kids at that "orphanage" with crazy man, right before they "escaped" because Salim saw what they did to good singers and didn't want that to happen to Jamal. Ok well, Jamal and Latika are sitting on the porch, and he gets up and says they're gonna be rich, hit the big time, etc, buy a big fancy house. Then he says, "You'll dance with me, right?" and starts dancing really badly and Latika says, "I hope you sing better than you dance" right before he goes to sing in front of creepy orphanage guy. And they never got to dance together. So at the end, they get to dance together and be happy and all that. The end.
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