Slumdog Millionaire

Over the weekend I finally saw Slumdog Millionaire, the story about a young boy who answers every question right on India's version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire and becomes famous for it. 18-year-old Jamal Malik, the main character, goes on Who Wants to be a Millionaire because he wants his longtime friend and love interest, Latika, to watch him. Every question that had been asked on the show, Jamal got right because during his life, he experienced a lot of things that helped him answer the questions. Every significant event in his life, whether it was a happy one or a tragic one, most of those questions pertained to his life somehow. Throughout the movie, he retold his story to the police, he had gotten locked up because they thought he cheated, going back to the times in which he gains the knowledge of the questions asked of him on the show. For example, one question asked him who was one the American $100 bill, and it flashed back to a time when he was younger, and he had seen an old friend of his, who had became blind due to a gangster's selfishness. He had given the bill to the boy, and the boy, Arvind, asked him to describe the man on the front. When Jamal described him, Arvind told him that is was Benjamin Franklin, giving Jamal the answer which he used later in life. Slumdog Millionaire is a sad story, Jamal loves all that he loves to corrupt India, but he overcomes his obstacles, he finds the girl he loves after losing her twice, and he wins a million dollars. Slumdog Millionaire is those one-in-a-kind movies that are a must-see and I'm glad that all the actors were people no one knew because it made the story more real and it set this movie apart from the rest of them. I really liked it and I thought it was so good that I could watch it more than a few times and still be hooked.