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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

slumdog - critical



personnely everone can feel anything for slumdog.
Everyone has his/her right to express his/her personnel feelings towards anything. You can call a movie piece of shit though 10 million appreciated and liked it. It's extremely personnel, also called nature or prakriti of any human being which normally is congenital and depends on your up growing, culture, friend's circle, reading, writing and obviously film going habit which makes you YOU-different from others.

Critically everone needs to get into the core.
FILM CRITICISM
You need to think about basic film criticism theory before you begin. Should start with positive points first. Personally I am also not a great fan of "slumdog…." but we need to appreciate some of its innovative film language and grammar and new meanings.

Quality of a film depends not only on box office but more on….
Production value
Production limitations - time, location and budget, stars, makers, genre, third world story and many more.
Genre and the filming style -Documented film or propaganda filming with tits and bits of satirical fiction.
Highest high and lowest low theory/ comparison theory.
Every film is a single piece of element not a compound. Incomparable and with its unique features, physical and chemical properties.
PLUSES
Facts and satires on Indian realism.
Theme of the film is "No Need to be Genius. Experience Teaches a Lot" and the point is how much you did justice to the theme through the art and science of the film - a unique blend of audio and video rather than single dimensional black texts on white paper.
Great screenplay. One main plot, three subplots with unification of character but in different time and different location with different multicultural actions.
Taut editing. The transitions are simply great. Montages are really cut very economically regarding time, frame and effect.
Indian cinematic style and drama could be new to the world with musical sense.
POV filmmaking.
Involvement of questions that has cross cut over the world.

Child jumps into excreta - tells the amitabh's position and craze in bollywood and more ever it’s the first question's answer that needs to be told in a very dramatic and craziest way so as to make the viewers feel it's really no need to be genius to know some answers. One who can jump into human excreta to have a glimpse of amitabh obviously knows the answer. Autograph and selling it to someone watching amitabh's films are subtexts and reading between the lines. HIGHEST HIGH AND LOWEST LOW THEORY.
Compare between India and America is an irony. It has subtext of Indian poverty and American donors and INGOs. COMPARISION THEORY.
There is nothing written but yet there is nothing that can't be written. The kid is misunderstood as a tourist guide as he was standing near the tourist guide board while trying to thief shoes. He can't refuse the money and get into a new business of tourist guide and start to tell false things about the Tajmahal-it is realism of India and huge satire as well. The main point of these scenes is time lapse to show the number of events that happened to the main character so that time is letting him chances to learn new things every next day. Personally, its one of my favorite scene, I have faced those street kids while I was there.
Great montages.
Amitabh's montages and clips add new horizon to the movie.
A simple theme of love and tragedy of entirely Indian taste compelled American viewers. I can tell u more than million subtexts of the film if u r really interested.

Performance is worthy. Esp of kids.
Please do not compare with big production movies like "saving private ryan" or milk or Benjamin etc. they are great but with different story and limitations.
In filmmaking and for academy award, what I know through my studies and teachers is "its not what, its how that matters" and more ever production limitations are there.
Never start a films criticism with drawbacks- Sergie Einstein - one of the first film critics in world.

Many scenes are shot in open form not in studios as Hollywood does. Shooting a film in realism and yet in third world is ….. I can't tell.
Its worthy picture to get the awards.

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