Slumdog Millionaire :)

My questions:

• In one exchange of dialogue in the film during the interrogation of Jamal, the police inspectors discuss the impossibility of what Jamal knows.
Police Inspector: Doctors... Lawyers... never get past 60 thousand rupees. He's on 6 million. [pause]
Police Inspector: What can our slumdog possibly know?
Jamal Malik: [quietly] The answers.
Discuss the irony in the film that Jamal “knows too much” and is suspected of cheating. Discuss the irony that in the end, his poverty may make him rich. What point is the film making? What is real wealth?
Knowledge is wealth, you can loose money if you have no brains. In the movie Jamal wasn't exactly a genious but he had to learn a lot of diferent things to survive and curiously he was asked on those things he knew on the game show. We can learn at school or at home, but the things that we learn on the street are hard to forgive.

• The game show format brings into to focus the culture of meaningless competition. What does the spectacle of the game say about what people value today? What values does the media promote? Are they humanizing values?
Some of the values showed in the movie are: love, friendship and perseverance. We can see how Jamal never gives up on finding Lathika, in the other hand Lathika never looses hope in Jamal. Also, Salim seems like a really bad friend and he betrays Jamal, but in the end he shows that people can change and that no one is really bad at heart. He gives up the money and "power" he had work for and helps Lathika run away. I really liked the movie, because you can relate to the characters and their feelings. :')


- by: Laura García :*