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The AP reports that as Slumdog racked up win after win last night, the narrow, trash-strewn streets of Mumbai’s slums were filled with joyous celebration as friends and family and well-wishers of the film’s star children gathered around the few TVs in the neighborhood to watch the excitement. It’s a pretty touching mental image, and you really get the sense that this was an unusually (and rare) proud moment for these struggling people. It gives them the sense that anything is possible. Now what?
If the Oscar excitement brought a sheen of glamour to the community, it vanished Monday shortly after the final award was announced.
The journalists left, the dancing stopped and life pressed on as always. The sweatshop men hunched over humming sewing machines. Squatting children relieved themselves by the train tracks. Mothers washed their dishes in murky water.
“I am poor,” Fakrunissa Sheikh, 40, said inside her lean-to next to Azhar’s.
We gave them brunch first, right? We gave those cute little kids all the eggs benedict their tattered pockets could hold! Now, off you go. Time to go back. Shoo. Scram. You dropped some eggs. Leave it. Just leave them there, we’ll take care of it. Goodbye.
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And are we suppose to feel surprised over this?
The only quote they can pull off someone is “I am poor”?
Jesus, fuck.
You really know how to bring a girl down, Gabe.
First, the Pussycat Dolls feel the need to remix Jai Ho and now we are leaving the adorable slumdogs by the side of the road while we continue driving in our fancy limo (it is the perfect analogy you guys, go back to school)? I hope you’re ashamed of yourselves, everybody in America. I know I am.
THE MOVIE WAS JUST ALRIGHT.
*blows brains out!!*
Do something about it: http://www.worldvision.in/?Select+a+Child
I don’t know if this makes me morally perverse or what but the “I am poor” quote made me laugh so hard. I am still laughing. It should have been : ( but instead it was like : D. But I mean, in what context does one get the quote “I am poor”? Was it like “Can you comment on your poverty ma’am?” “I am poor.” ??
Also, what was this article supposed to accomplish? Was the headline “MUMBAI STILL HELLA POOR, YOU GUYS”? Did we expect it to be all fixed because of some slick movie made there? Is that how economies are repaired now? Do we just need to make a movie about how poor Americans are to get our economy rolling again? WE ARE SO POOR. This comment needs to be over.
The “I am poor” quote wasn’t a joke? Really? Because I definitely let out a huge “HA!” so I guess we’re both morally perverse.
As someone in vgchat said last night, today the slumdog kids went back to work at the AMEX call center.
At least the kids got to go to Disneyland first.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/23/slumdog-millionaire-kids_n_169300.html
I enjoy your use of ironicons.
Epilogue:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7909660.stm
do you’ll honestly believe that you’ll have done a great favour to the slumdog kids? Sitting around making nasty comments. What was Time to go back. Shoo. Scram.?! which century are you living in? Until the entire article is printed from where the comment “I am Poor” is taken this is just a flight of someones superiority complex.