An amazing movie

Last night Cindy, Kate and I drove over to Fayetteville to do a little shopping and watch a movie. We were going to return several items, eat supper and go to a movie. We got to the store to return the items and accomplished that, even picking up a cd that I had ordered earlier.

As we walked through the parking lot, the exhaust fan from a local restaurant was blowing the aroma of cooking beef to our nostrils. We all threought it would be nice to sit down and eat there. However, we just didn't feel like we had the time to do so.

So we quickly drove to another place where we felt we could get a fast meal and, I would have to say, we all wolfed down our meals. To give you an example, I was the last to finish. Which says a lot.

Anyway, we hustled to get to the movie theater, dropping Kate off to buy the tickets, Cindy and I looking for a parking space. As we parked the car, Kate unexpectedly called us. Cindy answered the phone, to find that they were showing "Slumdog Millionaire" at 10:00.

All three of us were excited to be able to see that movie, so we had two hours to kill before the new movie. At this point, we walked down to Cost Plus World Market, which we found to be closing.

A little statement for the southside of Atlanta. Apparently this store was doing fine. One of the employees told us that this particular store was doing well. But for some unspoken reason, the head office decided to close this store. So now, if I want to go to one of my favorite stores, I have to drive to the north side of Atlanta, where I can shop among the more prosperous of our population

I hate to say this, but there is a continual bias against the south side of Atlanta. Even in the portions which are basically prosperous and doing well. It is sad.

Acceptable bias still exists in this country, against the heavy of weight, against the less prosperous.

Which leads me back to the movie. The movie is basically about a young man in India, who wins the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" But there is so much more. Because the movie is about rising above cultural prejudice and finding love in a culture which is designed to keep the poor and the downtrodden in their place.

It is an amazing movie. An important movie. I can't say much more. The movie is hard to sit through sometimes, particularly at the beginning, but it is worth the struggle.

And while we don't come close to suffering like the characters in the movie from the biases of class and difference, it speaks a lesson which is applicable to all of us in so many ways, in every part of the world.