Many of their schemes are very entertaining. But nothing feels greedy or conniving, at least not from the children. Jamal and Salim are kids from the slums, so of course money is important to them. As someone who is sensitive to sexual violence, I was not disturbed by any of this.įor consumerism: there is a lot of focus on money in this film, but it is in the context of survival. A child is seen naked from behind in a non-sexual context for a brief scene. There are brief scenes in which women and men are making out, but they are partially clothed. There is implied sexual contact between two young teenagers, but nothing is shown. A supporting character is being trained to be a prostitute, but that is never implicitly shown only referenced. Sex stuff is also limited, and mostly implied. In terms of language, there is a moderate amount, but it’s not constant throughout the film. The average horror film is much more graphic than this film, and I think any older teenager would be able to handle this. Again, I think that while there is a lot of violence, it is not particularly graphic. Many people are concerned about the scene in which a child’s eyes are burned with oil: the scene is brief and again edited to be rather mild, and quite honestly the moments before in which he was chloroformed were more disturbing. But the editing is done so that much of this violence is implied, or only shown for a brief amount of time. Yes, there is plenty of violence: people are beaten either with fists or sticks, a man is lit on fire, a woman’s face is deliberately scarred with a knife, people are shot, people are electrocuted and tortured. That in mind, I found the violence in Slumdog Millionaire to be much milder than I was lead to believe. I decided to write this review because I found it difficult to gauge exactly how violent this movie was from other reviews. I’m 18, but I’m sensitive to violence in movies (especially sexual violence) so I use CSM to prescreen movies I’m interested in.
The movie does a good job of capturing the highs along with the appropriate lows.
I was immediately sucked into the film and was rooting for the main characters the whole time. Dev Patel is particularly amazing, giving such delicate emotion and feeling to his character, Jamal. The script is well-written and flows marvelously, carried by incredible acting by everyone in the cast, even the little children.
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