Slumdog Millionaire (Blog 7)

This week in humanities we started a film called Slumdog Milllionaire. This film is about a very poor man named Jamal, living in Mumbai, India, who goes on a game show to win 20 million rupees. Apparently, nobody has ever gotten past 16 million. How is Jamal doing so well? Jamal is accused of cheating and is tortured by police until he admits how he cheated. Throughout the movie Jamal has flashbacks and is trying to prove to the police that he did in fact not cheat, and how he knew the answers. Why did Jamal want all this money? Who knows, we still have to find out. The poverty represented in this movie of the families living in Mumbai is heartbreaking. Kids didn't have parents, they were running from place to place, dirty as can be,starving just looking for a place to live. The kids were tortured, and severely hurt so that they could beg on the street and people felt bad for them and their injuries  and gave them money. I think that ONE thing that I took from the movie so far, would be that people take things for granted all the time in this world and where we live. There are other places in the world where purple are struggling worse than we have ever even seen, heard of, or ever thought was even possible. We need to be very thankful for everything that we have, each and everyday. 

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