Slumdog Millionaire

I was completely taken in by Slumdog. I love modern Indian literature, and just finished reading The White Tiger, which is also set in impoverished, urban, modern India. In this movie, Jamal, a poor, illiterate slum kid from Mumbai goes on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and...turns out, he knows all the answers! The trick of the film is that each question throws Jamal into a flashback of traumas in his life, in a magical realism kind of way, so he can't help but know the right answer, as it all happened to him. It's filled with darkness and light, brutality and romance, a fantasy of getting rich fueled by poverty. It's captivating, and moving, and it has a happy ending! I highly recommend it.