I’m at my parents’ home in Illinois, enjoying a few lazy days and leftover meals. Just finished watching Guillermo del Toro’s Orphanage, which has a similar setting to his Devil’s Backbone. Both great films – filled with fantastifcal images, haunting plots, and bittersweet outcomes. Always using young children as main characters, his stories are brimful of innocence, longing, and tragedy.
If you haven’t seen Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, you must see it! After Trainspotting, I was concerned that I wouldn’t quite see another film by him, which would render the same combination of joie de vivre and rebellion. Slumdog is a passionate ode to life, and uncomprised by the weaving of Western and Eastern culture in a narrative that’s both exotic and familiar. I love the main character, Jamal Malik, and his quest to reclaim his lost love and a hope for a better future. We all need to be reminded once in a while that life is a gift and something worth fighting for – in both a literal and metaphorical sense.
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