Is Slumdog Millionaire A Case Of Poverty Porn? |
Is Slumdog Millionaire A Case Of Poverty Porn? |
parag_sankla |
Feb 21 2009, 05:57 AM
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I have not seen the film yet, but have read many reviews. My conclusion based on them is that the western world (British director - the same people who ruled us for over 150 years) has made an excellent piece of poverty porn out of India. The projection of Mumbai and India as a whole is slum (as if there are no homeless people in the developed countries). Using the word dog (even if some one defends that its a newly coined word = slum + underdog = slumdog) is derogatory.
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Marcilo |
Feb 26 2009, 11:31 PM
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Ok leaving Oscars aside
QUOTE Those who saw the film would think of India as a country of dirt and filth, ridden with poverty, where violence and deceit are the key to success and where girls are often taken to brothels. Does this not happen in India? Why there wasn't much of hue and cry when madhur bhandarkar made movie called traffic signal? I do not know who the writer of this article is but that person sure lives in ancient times. Walk along in USA and tell you are from India, they will ask, are you a doctor or an engineer. That is the reality and so are slums. QUOTE the inhuman behaviour of the police Wasn't ardhya satya and Maachis all about that? - Just another gummy bear fan
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