David Poland has declared, and Kris Tapley backs him up in the comments section, that Slumdog Millionaire is now the frontrunner of the 2008/2009 Oscar race. All of this worked out in a somewhat rushed negative review of Benjamin Button where Poland also says that the Brad Pitt film can’t win any of the top prizes at this year’s Oscars. He says that the film has “no conflict” anywhere in it. It’s funny to see how the movie is suffering all of the highs and lows of Oscar season before it’s even opened to the public. As far as conflict goes, I’d think being born old, abandoned by your parents and having to live life backwards is sort of its own conflict but that’s just me. One of the biggest conflicts in human nature is the bitter truth that youth is wasted on the young.¬† You might not really understand this unless you’re on that side of things but conflict it is.