Slumdog Millionaire - Love story & more

Sometimes it takes me a few times watching a movie to catch everything that goes on in the movie. I always notice that it never feels like how it feels the first time, maybe that is the newness of the movie wearing off as I know what to expect the second time I watch it. Slumdog Millionaire is different in that it felt the same. The story changes as far as what I look at and what jumps out at me but not the feeling of the film.

The film exudes many things that resonate with me. The invincibility of youth, of being an underdog, the cruelty of life, the bonds of family surviving through any struggle, the sense of urgency & passion in chasing dreams & adventures, the power of belief in self, life, even in the idea of destiny. The feeling that this film seems to capture most is love. How wild and reckless the pursuit of love can be and how fulfilling it is to find love and it means more then all the money in the world.

It was so easy to believe in love as a child. I remember thinking there was someone out there for me. Someone for me who I would be crazy about and want to spend almost every waking hour with them or pursuing them every waking hour. I don’t know if I can count all the women I have wanted to spend time with over the years (Good grief I am fickle). I didn’t always date but I was friends with many women that I would have given anything and everything to end up married to them and live happily ever after.

A certain amout of what I have described in the last few paragraphs could be easily dismissed as unrealistic romantic mumbo - jumbo. There is way too much of that going around these days. I am talking about unhealthy expections or unrealistic hopes from a person or a relationship. I am talking about more then the feeling. I am trying to get at the connection, the unique bond we share with one person who gets us & accepts us like no one else can. Despite all our hang ups and imperfections another person would find us acceptable enough to share live with us.

I loved this movie for how it took something that is complicated and made it so simple and child like. Granted the movie was a romance story without alot of the ugly parts of real life coming out it was a production I did enjoy & highly recommend this movie. Movies like this make you believe that love is the coolest thing out there worth believing in and living one's life pursuing.