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echt · 09/01/2009 04:36

It's been out for several weeks in Oz, but I see from "The Guardian" that it's just been released UK side. Go and see it. It's properly cinematic in its photography despite the feel-good/Channel 4 vibes which publicise it - not a tv film shown in cinemas.

Stay for the credits at the end.
Great soundtrack.

Lovely, lovely film; its heart in the right place but with stuff that has you heart-stopped with tension.

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mynewnickname · 24/01/2009 23:27

Just been to see this. I thought it was utterly fantastic but cannot see why it's billed as the 'feel good film of the decade' - I found some of the themes really dark and was crying every time something awful happened to the children (quite a lot then...)

Go and see it but don't expect to laugh the whole way through.

paolosgirl · 24/01/2009 23:32

I went to see it on Friday night - absolutely fantastic, but agree with Mynew in that it's definitely not a feel good film. Expect to feel emotionally drained by the end of it - I don't think I've ever felt so exhausted by a film before.

mynewnickname · 24/01/2009 23:46

I'm sure I wouldn't have felt this upset by it before I'd had children. It made it way more distressing.

And erm, maybe I have PMT.

Actually there should be an extra warning on this film alongside the age rating - take extra tissues if you have PMT or are pregnant

Theresa · 25/01/2009 08:22

yes mynew, I dragged dh along to see it, he had heard nothing about it. By the end of it I was doubting whether or not I'd imagined the 'feelgood' ads I'd seen. It was however totally brilliant, but so so sad. And I could see what was coming with the spoon so I just shut my eyes!

donnie · 25/01/2009 18:09

yes, fabulous film - so poignant and moving. How anyone can see it as a 'feelgood' film is beyond me, as others have said! As soon as it was finished I wished I could watch it all over again. And the closing credits are wonderful.

Theresa · 25/01/2009 18:47

I think we all needed the closing credits to send us out of the door with a smile on our faces!

kerala · 25/01/2009 18:56

Brilliant. Brings back memories of travelling in India.

Just gutted DH and I left before the credits as had to race home to bf dd2. Still fab first post baby cinema trip.

theauthor · 25/01/2009 20:11

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/691224-I-39-ve-had-an-idea-if-everyone-who-goes

I had an idea (an obvious one though) after seeing the film. If all of us who are touched by the idea of real slum children living anything like the way the boys in this did, all donated a few pounds after seeing this film, it might make a tiny difference. Please see the thread above.

edam · 25/01/2009 20:13

Good point, theauthor. My dad raises money for a charity called The Railway Children that helps the kids who live rough at the station. He tells very sad stories about tiny children who are looking after even younger ones.

notnowbernard · 25/01/2009 20:14

I loved it too

Bit bitter-sweet though, IMO

And I guessed what the final question was about an hr before it was asked and impressed my mate a lot

ProfRichardDawkins · 25/01/2009 20:16
retiredgoth2 · 25/01/2009 20:28

...went to see Slumdog Squarepants last night with all my mates.

(well. On my own....)

...it is quite a remarkable thing. The 'feelgood movie' marketing campaign is bizarely misplaced. Ultimately, it DOES make you feel good, but not before dragging you through some appalling squalor and cruelty.

...the measure of the film for me is that such an intelligent, challenging film which is for large part in (subtitled) Hindi should be so enormously popular with mainstream audiences.

The cinema I saw it in was large, and full. It stayed full until the credits were finished and the lights up. I can't recall being in a film where this happened since, er, well ever.

...the music was overwhelmingly good, too.

I loved it, and may go again....

twinsetandpearls · 25/01/2009 20:34

I didnt think it was a feel good movie, it gave me nightmares but I am quite soft.

edam · 25/01/2009 20:36

Hello Prof, I went to L Cineworld.

retiredgoth2 · 25/01/2009 20:38

...there is plenty of nightmare stuff in the film, whether or not you are soft!

I think whoever thought up the tag-line could only have seen the end credits...

edam · 25/01/2009 20:38

I think it was ultimately quite uplifting despite all the tragedy and squalor. Partly the ending (trying not to give anything away for people who haven't seen it) but also the energy and passion throughout the whole story. And partly the end credits which were wonderful!

twinsetandpearls · 25/01/2009 20:41

yes the ending did leave me with a feelgood factor actually- the bit after the credits that is.

Theresa · 27/01/2009 18:53

The bit about the subtitles is interesting, I heard ont he radio that a 'high percentage'of the film was in Hindi with subtitles and I was suprised. Yes I can remember some of it was, but really that much? Another mark of what a good film it was I suppose is that I didn;t notice!

Fimbo · 30/01/2009 11:24

I must be the lone voice, I didn't like it at all. Dh loved it though.

LouMacca · 12/02/2009 10:19

If you haven't seen this film yet, go!

Absolutely brilliant stuff. I left the cinema feeling totally exhilarated - happy that I hadn't wasted 2 hours of my life like I have done with so many other hyped-up films.

boogiewoogie · 16/02/2009 21:54

Has anyone read the book? It's quite different to the film.

noddyholder · 17/02/2009 17:14

saw this with ds and dp yesterday It is fantastic and harrowing too at times!Go and see it the little boys in the first bit are gorgeous

PandaG · 17/02/2009 17:19

is a film I would definitely recommend, but it is very different to the book. Book and film both worth reading/seeing, but the film takes the theme of the book but alters the exposition.

I found it very moving but also exhilarating.

SlartyBartFast · 21/02/2009 10:38

fantastic,
could not stay and watch all final credits

was worried dh wouldnt like it as he was a hippy in the past and travelled round india, but he too really enjoyed it.

realised we could have taken DS, but he didnt ask

elsiepiddock · 24/02/2009 18:50

I liked it but it was so violent I felt worn out.