Slumdog Millionaire’s Genius

Posted by spliceanddice on February 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

You don’t have to be a genius to know the answer, Jamal says. That certainly sparked a flame of insight into his life. He was nowhere near to being a genius, let alone someone who knew all the answers to life’s toughest questions. Maybe even the simplest ones. But towards the end of the film, the point becomes clear as pristine water: indeed, you do not have to be a genius to know the answer; you just have to experience things in their candid and brutal forms to have something to say in the face of life’s most troubling questions. While the story reflects answers to some questions, questions to some answers, and even more questions to questions that not even Einstein would have managed to resolve, it turns out that the movie hid more under its sleeves. It was not only the story of innocence and ignorance of two boys and a girl living in the slum recesses of India. Neither was it simply the story of how a chaiwalla seized the final answer with a guess and seized twenty million Rupees even more. It was itself a story of India. Maybe even ours.

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