Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire
Year twelve students would find the visual text Slumdog Millionaire challenging because of the issues that the director Danny Boyle highlights, which are those of issues in India even in our life. He uses the character of Jamal to illustrate these issues effectively. We are shown a sequence of events which Jamal faces from childhood to his present life. He took part in a TV show called “Who wants to be a Millionaire”. From the first question, it already exposed the life of Jamal. I think this is not only about Jamal’s life even more serious is the hidden problem with the living condition of people who are at bottom society in India. By watching Slumdog Millionaire, we as teenager come face to face with examples of lots of issues in India at the start of 21 century. Although the setting of background shown in the visual text are different from our lives, the issues makes us question our own values and reactions to people who may be seen as being different in some ways.
Jamal, a boy comes from the slum in India is obviously the main character in the film as the whole film is about his life. Jamal is very important in the film as he illustrates to us how people that are from the slums are expected to get nowhere in life. It is a massive shock to me when he wins as much money as he does as even the most educated people never win this much money. Same as the other children in the slum, Jamal never receive a good education. Under the blanket of poverty, one of the big issues in India is the lack of education. Most of the children in slums don’t go to school. I consider that perhaps they think it’s not necessary to spend extra time on studying. As far as I can see because of the poverty the most important thing for them is how to find adequate food and clothing, instead of go to school. Same like Jamal, the children who comes from the slum is like garbage to the rich people and they have contempt for those people in the slum. As a student, we have
Year twelve students would find the visual text Slumdog Millionaire challenging because of the issues that the director Danny Boyle highlights, which are those of issues in India even in our life. He uses the character of Jamal to illustrate these issues effectively. We are shown a sequence of events which Jamal faces from childhood to his present life. He took part in a TV show called “Who wants to be a Millionaire”. From the first question, it already exposed the life of Jamal. I think this is not only about Jamal’s life even more serious is the hidden problem with the living condition of people who are at bottom society in India. By watching Slumdog Millionaire, we as teenager come face to face with examples of lots of issues in India at the start of 21 century. Although the setting of background shown in the visual text are different from our lives, the issues makes us question our own values and reactions to people who may be seen as being different in some ways.
Jamal, a boy comes from the slum in India is obviously the main character in the film as the whole film is about his life. Jamal is very important in the film as he illustrates to us how people that are from the slums are expected to get nowhere in life. It is a massive shock to me when he wins as much money as he does as even the most educated people never win this much money. Same as the other children in the slum, Jamal never receive a good education. Under the blanket of poverty, one of the big issues in India is the lack of education. Most of the children in slums don’t go to school. I consider that perhaps they think it’s not necessary to spend extra time on studying. As far as I can see because of the poverty the most important thing for them is how to find adequate food and clothing, instead of go to school. Same like Jamal, the children who comes from the slum is like garbage to the rich people and they have contempt for those people in the slum. As a student, we have