Female and Male Roles

Male and Female Roles In Movie, Slum Dog Millionaire In many movies, the male and female actors play major different roles. The movie I recently watched “The Slumdog Millionaire” had remarkable differences in the male and female actors. “Slumdog Millionaire” is based on a young man being a contender in the show “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” and is accused of cheating. Showing the audience through out his life, Jamal the main character shows how sexism the Indian culture can be. In the Psychology book sixth edition defines sexism as “Differential treatment of an individual on the basis of his or her sex” (Palladino, 419). For an example, the movie made noticeable of sexism, how much more dominate the men is. Also, the men constantly control the women in any way they prefer. Looking at the Latica, the female actress was first a prostitute that was always looked downward on and then later became a slave for one of the biggest criminals. This shows that women do not have any respect and are treated basically like garbage. In addition, the movie showed how the women are suppose to stay home and take care of the children, whereas the men have to go work hard and earn money to keep the household. Furthermore, the movie showed how Latica gave up and accepted the fact that she was never going to find Jamal while Jamal never gave up and gave everything up to find her. This also shows that how much weaker the female are then the male. In conclusion, “Slumdog Millionaire” did a wonderful job in showing the differences of male roles and women roles and showed how much more dominant the men are in our society