Best Motion Picture - Slumdog Millionaire.. The world is kissing Mr Boyle's feet for making a brilliant movie.. The debutants Dev Patel and Freida Pinto have become overnight red carpet stars.. The slum "movie" stars have finally seen a different world..
However, the movie is still so unbelieavable.. Reasons? There are so many..
Ask any Indian and they would know how poverty is seen in this country.. how distant is this reality from actual reality.. how the poor is not treated as human being at all..
And on these pictures of stark reality and pyramid of dying, stinking poverty Mr Boyle has cellotaped his fairy tale characters.
A young slum boy in India whose childhood runs through his mother's murder, his girlfriend's rape, his friend's slaughter, thefts cannot grow to become a man who wants and strives to live for a higher purpose in life. How can this young boy not think about immediate reaction but live through all obscenities to choose dignity and knowledge and become an english speaking millionaire.
This can only be a portrait painted by a western painter.
Honour and dignity can only be acquired and not be borne with.
