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we have to procrastinate our club because of problems that occur........

We will continue in a week or two..

Yup..this is the part where all the actions begin..., part 2 of 2..

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This is the first video from us......

It is about our sukantara event on the 22 January 2009.. This the part one of two...

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Dog Gone Millions

Slumdog Millionaire.

I imagine there are bus loads of better, professional review of this movie out there in the internet, but just bear with me.

Slumdog Millionaire is a story about Jamal, a slumdog, participating the game show "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire". His past is shown in intervals throughout the show although the back story finally catches up to the present at the end. It tells the story of his life in the slums as a kid living amidst poverty, and violence and searching for the 'good life' which incidentally includes his love.

To everyone who had seen the last Golden Globes, the name may sound familiar. Yep, it won the best picture award, and to my humble opinion, deservingly so. My standard of 'good' film is not that high, but often, this high-class, award-winning films often take some time for me to warm up to it. Take for example, No Country for Old Men. It is undoubtedly good, but it took some time - over duration of weeks- for me to actually sit through the first 10 minutes. Same goes with American Gangsters, Pursuit of Happiness, The Great Debaters, and I'm Not There. Slumdog Millionaire however, despite all of its sophistication and high-class facade, is actually very appealing to the average-movie-goer in me.

The movie starts off with a couple of shots in which Jamal is in the game show, and then in some shady room being a punch bag and then we are propelled into the great outdoor where some kids are running away from cops accompanied with great music from A.R Rahman. That sequence immediately sets it apart from the other movies mentioned above. It didn't start with quasi-dramatic shots, but instead let the people see what it is about over a duration of seconds. It is immediately appealing and set the flow from the early on instead of having the audience waiting for 15 minutes to get what the film is about.

However, while the film is promoted as a grand love story,  I find the 'love' part in this story quite detached. It is more about a film on this guy living through hell and managing to get out of it. It manages to tell a story through a lense properly shaped to the environment. It shows the story behind innocence, naivety in the mix of uncertainty and the relinquishing of those two things. It's realistic, but at the same time, there is something quixotic about the whole film (this is while ignoring the part where he stands to win a million dollars)

The childhood phase is balanced out really well, between the humour and the serious outlook. There were some unforgettable moments where you can really laugh out loud, which is pretty rare in films like this. But of course, while being that, the film is not ignoring the harsh part of being the kids in that situation.

True, as the story is shown in flashbacks, it may seem insignificant at first but it managed to somehow claw its way up in terms of importance as the story moves further. As he finally reached the final answer, you can't help but root for him. I even guessed the answer and after the character chose a different answer, I was really hoping that I am wrong and that he is right. Nonetheless, I won't tell the spoiler here. All else I could say is, get the movie (preferably through cinema or dvds, but internet is ok I guess).

All in all it's a movie well worth your RM8 (or your 6-8 hours of downloading the film, your choice). 8 out of 10.