This would have been a good scene in “Slumdog Millionaire”
I would have liked it if, in Slumdog Millionaire, our hero reads one of the questions on the tense Millionaire game show, and then flashes back in his typical Lost style to an incident in his past that relates somehow to the question, but this time it’s just him watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire or Jeopardy and learning that fact. Like, a few days before he went on the show. That seems more realistic. But I guess this is one of those Magical Realism type thingies and the coincidence is the whole point.



Yeah! Or studying for the show like a normal person.
One of the flashbacks should just be to him quietly reading an encyclopedia.