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?
Jamal knows that much not because he is smart, but because he has lived through many situations that ironically have something to do with the answers of the game. Thanks to his poverty, Jamal could live all the situations that contained the answer of the questions, aside from obtaining the reason to play the game. The film wants to indicate that poverty is not a barrier of opportunities or intelligence. What's even more, rich people seem to have it all; poor people have less, but give at least value to what they possess.
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?
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?
The game was only admiring wits and intelligence. The gift was recognition and money. The game promotes the studies of a person. It tells them to be smarter to win much more money, even if the questions seem ridiculously random. "Play our game by becoming smarter!". They are showing entertainment, but aren't promoting values at the end. Only superficial, lonesome challenge.
Greed, corruption and the misuse of power are highlighted in the film through a variety of characters. How are those who have money and power glamorized in this film? What happens to the victims?
Greed, corruption and the misuse of power are highlighted in the film through a variety of characters. How are those who have money and power glamorized in this film? What happens to the victims?
Those who have power and money are characterized as being cold and arrogant. People that do not have emotions and devalue everything that does not belong to them as to feel superior. They use the people around them for their own purpose, and still do not recognize the richness of their materials and experiences. That is how they're characterized. Victims get abused by these characters, until they become useless for the rich guy.
According to the first question, Jamal did find the way to start using the knowledge he had with something he was experiencing, he discovered a way to use what he had experienced in his own benefit. I agree with the last one to, only becuase people has money, it doesn't means they're happy but in other ways, it has proven that they are sad in many cases. Agree (y)
ReplyDeleteAgree with you Alain indeed it doesn´t matter how wealthy or rich you are it only matters that you are happy. Here in the movie the police officer is judging Jamal by his looks and the fact that he is a slumdog doesn´t determine how much someone can know.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your view of rich people in the movie. Specially because that's the way they act in real life. I hate our system because it's main objective is to make a few people rich and leave the rest to die.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the behavior they take is really close to the actual attitude of rich people.
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