L’Osservatore Romano has commended the granting of an Oscar award to Slumdog Millionaire for best motion picture of the year. The film is "interesting and exemplary, artistic and productive," wrote journalist Luca Pellegrini in the Vatican’s daily newspaper.
The night of the Academy Awards gave prominence to Mumbai, highlighting the Indian city’s coexistent and contradictory signs of hope and despair. According to Pellegrini, the plot embodies "feelings and truth with which everyone can easily identify."
The multi-award winning movie tells the story of a Mumbai teenager who participates in a television game show that could make him a millionaire—a game where the questions recall situations from his own personal history. The director, Danny Boyle, was a student of a Salesian school in Bolton, England. A theatre enthusiast in his youth, Boyle also pondered the possibility of becoming a priest.
Source: SIGNIS
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