Just got through watching Slumdog, a little bit ago.
Pretty good movie.
It feels like a sort of modern day fairy tale, which seems to sometimes get too caught up really in its own ridiculousness...
i.e. some of the film's in Hindu, some of it's spoken in English; the way the movie ends just seems unrealistic given the majority of the rest of the flick's negativity; the way some of these "chance" events always seem to always happen; etc etc.
I really did like having the three stories being told concurrently and how they did interweave with each other, though.
Anyone else seen this one yet?
Yes. I saw it. The language that unifies India is English. It's the one undeniably good thing the British did for them. People from the same tribe or family may speak to each other in a common dialect, but they would speak to others in English, because otherwise they may not be understood.
The film is very gritty and mostly depressing. I didn't see it as a fairy tale.
More like, after a hard and luckless lifetime, finally something happened to go right. Perseverance may make up for brutal circumstances if it goes on long enough. Also, you never know when your life's accumulated experiences may serve you well.