The Review of Slumdog Millionaire (Movie Review Sample)

Slumdog Millionaire The film uses discontinuity style of editing getting a lot of attention. It has flashbacks the whole of it and therefore would want to conspicuously move back and forth. Since the two stories are related, the film has to make it conspicuous that they are using the discontinuity style of editing. Some notable differences are that the actor was a young boy when he was getting the answers and older and tidy when he was in the lottery session but tortured and tired at the scene of torture. The movie has used many cutting techniques that fall in the discontinuity techniques. They have used many cutting on action technique during the first parts of the movie. The "who wants to be a millionaire?" session draws as much tension as the torture. As he was being tortured, the movie used cut in action technique to present the questioning process and back. Jump cut is very common in the movie. Many parts of the movie are jumping to the questioning session and much further to when he was young. The L – cut editing is visible at the 24 minutes and 6 seconds when the video had already moved on but the voice was still of the current situation. The video was gone to the next scene but the person was still speaking at the session. At minute 42 there is a cutaway editing the kids rolled down from the trail but the transition brings up a different place. The director of the film used a range of editing techniques to make the movie discontinuous and proper exploit the fact that the movie is developed on flashbacks. The pivotal scene is the last scene. It was a much tensed scene since within this scene we are to know the fate of the woman and if Jamal will get it correct. It starts at 1 hour and 33 minutes. This is supposed to be the climax of the scene. The first instances uses sounds that originate from the characters. There was in the hangout of bad boys where Salim was. The song was to show the life of Salim and to introduce them. Later as he is driven to venue of ‘who wants to be a millionaire" after the arrest there is a lot of musical sound. There is a musical sound that at arrival that can only be assumed to be the music of the final session of the game. During the question, when the host asks Jamal the question. Jamal asks for his last lifeline. He calls his brother only for the phone to be picked by Latika. There was a tensed up moment when the play a sound that has beats that go at the same frequency as that of a heartbeat. The sound makes viewers very tensed because of the rate and the manner it is played. It is just like a heartbeat. Silence is used to express a tensed up emotion, and was used within breaks to create great suspense. The movie has generally used non diegetic music. There is though the m...