2.Early in the film we see the young Jamal dive into a latrine pit to steal a gilmpse at a visting movie star. How does his single-mindedness to see this movie star reveal his determination? What other examples do you see in the film of his determination?
On that scene, he revealed his determination, because to see the movie star, he divied into a hole with human wastes, just to see the movie star and get an autograph, and it shows his determination, because he didn't cared he had to do this, just to achieve what he wanted, that in that moment, was to get an autograph. On another scene that he shows his determination, was on the many times, he fought and searched until he found Latika. He never gave up on seraching where she was, and every time he lost her, he would do everything to find her again.
5.Is ethical decision making possible when one must make choices based on survival? Do seemingly “bad” choices make a person bad?
It is complicated, because I think survival decisions you make them my insctint, and many people would do whatever to survive, but in a moment like that the choices you make represent how you really are, so I think that yes, depending on what a person does, those desicions can make you a bad person.
7. 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?
Here, the irony is that eventhrough he was poor and un educated he knew all of the answers that prepared and very studied people didn't know, so they thinked that he cheated, but the reason was that all the things they asked, he knew them because all the things he had to lived teached him something. He was poor and orfan, so he lived a lot of things, and teached even more things on the streets. So his poverty made him rich, because all that he lived and all the things he had to pass through. The point of the movie, is that a person learns from life, and you can't underestemate someone. The real wealth of Jamal, was his knowledge and inteligence.
by: Stephanie Celis
I'm agree with all you wrote, and that thing about irony is really good, many times you think that bad things are just to make you bad, but in this movie being poor made him be a millionaire.
ReplyDeleteyou can tell that this kid was not smart,he was not rich,he was not educated....the advantege he had was that he learned the street life and got experience from a whole bunch of things in the past.
ReplyDeleteThe things he answered where things that where related in some way in his street knowledge
I think it is pretty amazing how much he learned in his life, living day by a day not a pretty reality, but at last, it's the truth. He did not learned the poem, he did not know the Taj Mahal nor other countries "bites" of culture by reading, or whatever his teachers could tell him, but by living life, and trying to survive.
ReplyDeleteI also agreed with felix, being poor and being so but so poor, make him understand that life wasn't always fair at a really early age, and maybe that's cruel but that people are the one's that doesn't scare with anything since they've been experiencing every ugly things in life, that's why he has a big determination and big guts to take important decisions and afront consequences. That is why he doesn't care of anything and just do what he think it was right.
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