Honestly, even without all the expectations and hype, it’s not that big a deal. Sure, it’s a solid movie; but I really don’t know about being the best of the year.
It has a great indie feel to it, but the production you can tell is really grand. There are great shots of India, not that I’ve ever seen India, but the images did transport me there. The cinematography was excellent, filled with vibrant colours but dark and gloomy when needed.
The story was captivating from the start with a sense of intrigue. It had everything; drama, suspense, tragedy, humour, adventure, loss and gain, even from love to sexual abuse. It really was a very “complete” story.
The child actors were absolutely fantastic to be able to conjure up all these feelings from the audience. But so were the rest of the cast who did well in their portrayal, be it to generate compassion or despisableness.
Credit definitely had to go to Danny Boyle for being able to go into the heart of India and really shoot a story about India. How Boyle kept going back and forth between flashbacks and the present were really well done. There were suspense in both to keep the audience wanting to go back and forth with him. But it was also the adaptation by Simon Beaufoy that really told the story.
However, I personally thought that some parts were overly melodramatic. Some parts were overly coincidental to be believable especially in a serious story like this one. And the ending just didn’t have that big fireworks to reel the whole thing home.
It definitely was a very well-written, well-directed and well-acted piece of masterpiece. But to win the movie of the year, I wouldn’t have voted for it.
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