And the winner is...

Slumdog Millionaire! What a wonderful/horrible movie this is and the greatest indictment of a country I have ever seen. Pardon me while I strike the city of Mombai, and all of India in general, off my list to someday visit.

That country’s version of the television show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is the gloss on the dross of this movie but, for god’s sake, doesn’t anybody notice the squalor, the crime, the torture, the murder, the hypocrisy, the racism, the mayhem, the; the; the…well, I could go on and on.

When Slumdog starting winning a whole lot of awards in the past month or two I mostly thought well, how nice for India, but I hadn’t seen the movie yet. But now I have. Trust me, if it wins the Oscar for Best Picture tomorrow night, which it probably will, I will finally utilize the barf bag I always keep handy during this show. And then, to go along with the basic theme of the movie, I will auction it off on e-bay, and probably make a fortune.

Next stop, Darfur! Dancing genocide cannot be so distant in our movie-going future.