Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire is a brilliant, whooshing
spectacle: A teenage boy, about to win a historic jackpot on the
Hindi version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, is
accused of cheating and leads his interrogators, via flashback, through
the snarled strings of fate that delivered him to each correct answer.
Turns out, Slumdog Millionaire is a straight-ahead fairy tale,
complete with riddling sphinxes, giants to be slain, and princesses in
need of rescue—adapted to the Technicolor grime of modern-day
Mumbai. (See movie times, www.thestranger.com, for
details.)
Lindy West was born an unremarkable female baby in Seattle, Washington. The former Stranger writer covered movies, movie stars, exclamation points, lady stuff, large frightening fish, and much, much more.... More by Lindy West
Loved it – go see it!
This is definitely a “go see it on a bigass screen while it’s still in the theaters” movie, so you can see the world of the movie in the same wide-eyed awe as the protagonist does.