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  • Strawman

    For me, it is: entertainment, energetically and enthusiastically told using a palatte of vivid primary colours. That they're drawn from a source unusual to western audiences or mainstream audiences (and the reviewers serving them) should not invest the output with mystical insight, startling realism or profound meaning. Get your expectations set ...
    Posted to Oscars by jfreema2 on January 27, 2009

  • Incoherent?

    Lim's complaint about Slumdog Millionaire seems itself to be ''dissonant to the point of incoherence.'' If I wanted a documentary about the real India, I'd watch something like Frontline. I went to the cinima to be entertained, and that is exactly what Slumdog Millionaire did. It was fresh, moving, well scripted, beautifully filmed, and most ...
    Posted to Oscars by Marc-1961 on January 27, 2009