Well done, Danny. Slumdog Millionaire is a film totally guessed it, without being just a good "product." Whether it's a technically perfect film and is intended to make lots of money have recognized the 8 Oscar awarded film, director, adapted screenplay, editing, cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle), sound, soundtrack, original song. All these awards are well deserved, no doubt, but they are also, as always happens for the Academy Awards, more fuel for the economic success of the film. If then, recently, the Academy awards also really beautiful film, such as this the unreachable No Country For Old Men last year, this can mean many things, including perhaps the fact that viewers' tastes and expectations with respect to American movies have made a quantum leap, but it is a discourse that does not interest me much.
Returning to the film, the mark of authorial Boyle is clearly recognized: in violence, cynicism in exasperation, in constant desire to hit the audience in disgust or by highlighting the darker sides of human nature. At this point the film confirms the Scottish author's nihilistic vision, although one could argue that Boyle has lost a little 'bite than among friends Shallow Grave, Trainspotting or The Beach, actually Slumdog Millionaire continue and complete the work begun with the previous films. In the works cited is present in greater or lesser extent the issue of appearance, and the mass deception that the company puts into action against the individual: the pop culture of globalized communication, are RESPONSIBLE mirages that the protagonists Boyle's film of the chase at all costs, ready to commit the worst atrocities in order to meet the needs induced by the collective contemporary (in the case of drugs, easy wealth, fame, success, escape). In the latter film, deception is the final and definitive love, ' happy ending at all costs. No coincidence that the film ends with a surreal scene from the musical, on the rails of a railway station, and with the caption "It is written" that simulates the correct answer to a question in the original style, in fact, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" . For this film, Boyle chose the specific characteristics of the imaginary today, elements hopelessly pop, and mixed them to perfection: quizzes on TV, the gain easy, rampant individualism, the frantic search of love, the Third World becomes the first ... And went to shoot the film in Bollywood (duet with Loveleen Tandan), which represents the strength of the new world emerging, but also a focal point of creation of the imagination in the world. And who knows how many quotes from Bollywood movies are in Slumdog Millionaire ... In short, despite the appearance of nature that characterized most of his life, the film is fiction about fiction, not reality. It 's a movie that says everything about our time, because the fiction in our time and apparently have already swallowed the reality, and this is perhaps the most hard punch in the stomach we have ever received from Danny Boyle.
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