SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE- Outraged at local media response

[kabiraltaf]

Have u read Arundathi Roy's leftist critique of "slumdog" and why she found it offensive? She has always been a passionate advocate of the oppressed and you might find the reasons why she dislikes the movie interesting.

[diepiriye]

Thanks for the tip. Is there an online version that you could send me the link for? I'd love to read it, thanks!

[quitejaded]

I JUST GOOGLED the magic negro!!! Wow! I kind of noticed that as I watched movies in my childhood, but didn't think too deeply about it!! Thankyou for teaching me something new!!

[diepiriye]

By all means! I was also quite glad when I started to hear people describe what I used to call 'the Black best friend'. It occurs to me that there really are loads of Blacks who are the singular "Black best friend of 34 different white people" as poet Kate Rushin says. Those folks go on to generate these images, words, media, etc.

[Izumi1234]

You are so right...High up actors and directors and such in India harshly criticized this movie. I wont go on to what they said, but it didnt fit their ideal perspective, beacuse all bollywood focuses on is their disney like plots where everyone is great and yada yada, and its true you dont see poor people being portrayed in their movies, and its always these picture perfect people with their picture perfect looks and smiles, they need to move on is what I think. Great video!

[diepiriye]

Thanks! And I think it's funny that most folks watch these films and never notice that ll the people are wealthy.

[safire718]

it was so good

[diepiriye]

Thanks a bunch! I was so moved by this article that I HAD to do this.

[PFXProductions]

To you magic comment, remeber that one were forget the actor name..I think was in Kazmm..he was a genie and he helped a white kid

[bornearth]

she told me that they set up college funds for all the kids. i just kept thinking about school was represented in the film, the heading bashing teacher. still, i wanted their lives, today, to be better. she just couldn't feel me. i didn't even try to approach skin dynamics in the film. the mean older brother is darker. the eldest versions of jamal and latvika are the lightest just when we are suppossed to think of them romantically. but for sure s.m. is the best of the 5 in the oscars.

[diepiriye]

And you will find a great divide in India- some folks are wholly prepared to discuss skin color and others really want to pretend that there is no color-caste. How many times have I heard someone say "I'm a Brahmin but I don't believe in caste." I've never heard "I'm an Dalit/untouchable and I don't believe in caste." People are really scared of difference and will do any amount of colluding in order not to expose inequality or how they may benefit even just by being born fair skin.

[bornearth]

i wish i could hear you better. the volume was really low. Yesterday i went to amc's oscar best pictures and saw the 5 films in that category. after slumdog millionaire, my neighbor to the right told me that the kids from the movie were being flown "to the oscars from the slums." to which i responded that i hoped the kids and their families would have much improved lives as a result of the the movie.

[diepiriye]

Sorry for the lousy sound...I was frantically trying to get this out so that folks could start to think about this before the Oscars...and look what happened! 8 wins!

[cynthiarf]

ur insights are on point as usual but i am surprised how readily u accept barracks "win" as fundamental change. while a piece of me wants to consider it also,i am curious as to why it was paved so easily-esp in the shadow of katrina. i think his appointment was to pull heartstrings to settle the brewing discontent. THEY will still conduct business as usual but now his post distracts that growing outrage believing supremist rule & mindset has softened. u outlined it here-the thought sickens them

[diepiriye]

I happen to know the two white people in the film's opera scene..and I know how they were flown from Delhi to Mumbai for a long weekend and stayed in a five star hotel and were winded and dined to the tunes of thousands more dollars that those kids would ever see in a lifetime.

[cynthiarf]

you do mean the ppl u know were wined and dined right? (txt interpretation thing)

bc that doesnt surprise me at all. im sure those kids will never get what they deserve from this.

im sure this will be the first of many exploitation films using cheap labor on a new "subject" - looking forward to seeing it on netflix!

[diepiriye]

Barack didn;t win, we did. We are talking about social wounds that never healed, and this is the change. it's not Barack, but many of us who have changed and keep the momentum going. I take family more serious and even see myself as more powerful, which is THE starting point. I reach out to more people and speak my mind more readily. We can hold Barack accountable in ways that Bush completely rejected! Dialogue is change.

[cynthiarf]

should have known you were much deeper in thought than that...i must have had a brain fart...my most sincere apologizes! if i was a boy id be after you...all the way in india :)

[diepiriye]

I appreciate you for saying that. Thanks.

[YTwatcher38]

great insights as usual. I plan to see the movie ASAP.

[WorkTheRunway]

Haven't seen the movie yet, but I'll think of this vlog when I do. Thank You.

[diepiriye]

Enjoy it. And try to see it in a theater so you can see how folks react to it.

[freckles2720]

Once again, you are on point.

[diepiriye]

Thanks (again).