Early in the film we see the young Jamal dive into a latrine pit to steal a glimpse at a visiting 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?
His single-mindness makes him do what he wants to do without anybody stopping him. When Lathika, for example, is kidnapped, Jamal doesn't care for the people around there and runs for her.
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?
The point this movie is not how much money you have, but how can you live your life with what you know and have. Real wealth is not money and power, is what you can do with what you know.
What does the title mean? How does the title and the contrasts within it provide symbolic summary of the film?
Slumdog Millionaire means that a slumdog (person who lives on the street) is a millionaire, but not a millionaire as in money.
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I also think that this single-mindness that Jamal has is the reason for every action and future action that he commits. By diving into the crap pit for just and autograph of his favorite star, its just a simple example of what he can do or go trough in order to get what he wants.
ResponderEliminarA millionaire as in thoughts, experience and intelligence... sweeeeeeet :P
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