Slumdog was pretty good. I liked the way that it still conformed to a degree to archetypical stories, but skirted the edge of being something very different. The reason it's not such an easy film to watch is because it doesn't conform to a traditional film "template". The characters are interesting, and while it does dip in the latter part, it's always good to watch.
Anyway, to go completely off the beaten track in terms of templates...
Burn after Reading The Cohen's just love to make a film difficult to watch. You never know who it a protagonist, who is an antagonist and who or what the film is really all about. It takes about half the film to finally settle into it and just enjoy the ride. It's like real life, things just happen and you don't like everyone
It's a little more straight forward than No country for old men say - where you don't realise until right at the end that the whole film isn;'t actually about the people it follows. Burn after reading is just a farce, and once you realise it and get into it, it's quite amusing. It's not a comedy really (as in you laugh out loud - though the dildo machine scene was great :lol: ), but it's just an amusing kind of tale... Harsh, but amusing.
Not the best Cohen film I've seen, it's cutting a bit too close to being mainstream for that (and not far enough away to be a "serious" film), but definitely enjoyed it and would watch it again and get more from it
4/5