Slumdog

[lsanderson]

Last night I finally went to see Slumdog Millionaire. I'd liked the main actor, Dev Patel, in the first two seasons of Skins, but somehow never got around to seeing the movie. The eight Oscars kinda prodded me, and at 7:00 I ended up outside the Edina. There was a line, which was shocking, and the theater was fairly full. The movie tells a story, which seems almost shocking. There's a lot of dark, and it's not the scary dark of a Disney movie, it's more like the dark of a scary movie. But there's also a lighter side which wills out, perhaps with a wee bit too much poetic justice here and there, but still no Spider Robinson story -- without cost, without consequences, where everything is peachy keen at the end. I was happy at the end because the couple made it to the end of the movie, older and wiser, and with the gold ring.