Not a review of Slumdog Millionaire
Saturday, 24 January 2009 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daSlumdog Millionaire came highly recommended from all over, and I will echo that back.
I could swear that I read exactly this story in a William Gibson short story, though; we got your mashup Bollywood/ska/rap soundtrack, characters starting from the very bottom, hyper-on-on-on pop culture, computer-networks and cellphones playing a central role, cities growing up out of the slums, violence, the odd implausible coincidence, and heavy reliance on inter-connected flashbacks. Did I miss anything critical?
I did like it; I was merely puzzling over whose style it reminded me of. Gibson's it.
I could swear that I read exactly this story in a William Gibson short story, though; we got your mashup Bollywood/ska/rap soundtrack, characters starting from the very bottom, hyper-on-on-on pop culture, computer-networks and cellphones playing a central role, cities growing up out of the slums, violence, the odd implausible coincidence, and heavy reliance on inter-connected flashbacks. Did I miss anything critical?
I did like it; I was merely puzzling over whose style it reminded me of. Gibson's it.
