I know, I know, I am SOOOOOO late to the game in posting about Slumdog Millionaire.  But I swear that I saw this movie back on January 19th and have just now sat down to blog about it.  Had I blogged back then about Slumdog I could have reccommended the film to you and told you how amazing it was.  Today, a couple of solid weeks post-Oscars that kind of seems like saying that the internet is great and you should really check it out.  But if you haven’t seen Slumdog yet, chances are that your local movie theatre just picked it up in the last few weeks to capitalize on the Oscar buzz and you should run straight to said movie theatre and reward them for doing so.  Slumdog Millionaire treads the same road as other “poverty films” like City of God or Tsotsi without getting lost in it’s own seriousness.  Instead Slumdog dares to tell a story from within the slums that is hopeful and triumphant.  I am drawn to films that make poverty their subject matter, but like most people leave the theatre feeling pretty beat-up and outraged.  Slumdog takes us into the darkness of the slums of Mumbai and shows us the light.  Kara said that it has become her favoirte movie and I would easily say that Slumdog Millionaire was the best film I saw in 2009.