Slumdog Millionaire really IS that good.

So both members of Gangster Legs just saw Slumdog Millionaire, and lemme tell ya, it was quite good. As good as all that Oscar business says it is. Seriously. Go see it. And what adds to that movie wonderfully is it's soundtrack, which includes everyones favorite preggers Sri Lankan/English hiphopdance superstar, M.I.A. There's this part in the movie when the two main characters, at this point they can't be more than 12 years old, are hustling random shit on a train and "Paper Planes" is playing in the background. But not the Paper Planes that we all know now. It's not the Paper Planes we've all turned it into. It's not the Paper Planes that frat kids playing beer pong get excited about and sing a long to when she says the line about getting high. Nor is it the Paper Planes of in-the-know white 20-somethings wearing bright pink pants and doing street art. Nor is it the Paper Planes of the someone I used to know that thought M.I.A. was silly and just a voyeuristic hipster fad until he realized that she had something of a social message about the effects of imperialism and modern day international capitalism (it was then really cool AND a thing to intellectual jack off to after that). While yes, Paper Planes is an amazing commentary on capitalism and it's effects, something it being shown on MTV and the gunshot noises being edited out kind of lessens a bit, it gets to mean even more than that in this movie. I know this might seem a bit obvious but it really shows it to you. You can actually see it. In this movie, specifically in this four minute clip of kids selling keychain flashlights and exotic food on a train, you actually see what M.I.A. sings/raps/speaks/howls about. The glaring irony of this song literally slaps you in the face to such an extent that you can't believe you didn't feel it this much before. And consequently, it makes you want to slap overzealous potheads in the face even harder for missing it.

Download M.I.A. Paper Planes and, for good measure the ADROCK Remix as well, which is pretty fly.