First: Salim have an opportunity in his life to do something good, because for all his life he had thought himself alone,as a child he has a more open mind towards to the bad side, and he wanted the money to survives, but get it the wrong way, even pleased himself throwing his brother, to have relations with Latika, knowing that Jamal love Latika. The movie has many messages, but the one I think is the most important, is never lose the hope, because all is possible in this live. They can hear through the apartment walls. Finally, he says God is great, as it gave the opportunity to get rid of that weight off. As we know a slum is ver poor neighborhood, their characteristics are that they dont have electricity, water and almost no food and the worst is that his houses have no roof and are made with cardboard. He finds some numbers for Salim and makes some calls trying to find his old friend. Lo and behold, he is correct and wins the 20 million rupees. Salim convinced Latika to have sex with him the night they were rescued to, at least according to him, take away one of her valuable assets. What does a Canadian need to enter the US? Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. The government should do something, like establishing more public schools and giving more jobs, but they are indifferent about this terrible crisis in the country. Jamal is asked to answer questions that he wouldnt know if he didnt live that rough and difficult life. More books than SparkNotes. Immediately after the dance scene, the gang erupts into the empty train station and slaughters Jamal and Latika. From a bathtub filled with money, Salim makes his last stand, killing Javed before being shot repeatedly by Javed's many henchmen. In his life he crossed many difficulties, like: He loses his mother (unique family without his brother), his brother dont have a good moral rationality, etc. How did he do it? Salim's death Resigned to his fate, the sacrifice he has made for his childhood friend, Salim fills a bathtub with money, the only reward for the life of a gangster, and gets into the tub with a revolver, prepared to meet his fate. And Salim make that decision, because for one time on his life, he want to make something good saving Latika from Javed, and giving his brother Jamal, the life he deserves with Latika, as he always want since he was a child and he abandoned with Maman on the camp. In the show Who wants to be a millionaire, all the questions they asked him, were important moments in his life, but he didnt have the last answer of the the last question: who is the third musketeer, he used his last lifeline in calling his brother, but Latika answered the call. With his last breath, he utters the words . This is a critical situation, that is really affecting the conditions of live of this slums, but I think that if we unit us as a state, leave the indifference, we can solution this problem and all the others. Once the caulk is applied and the tub drained, the caulk compresses. What does the title mean? By scarifying himself to safe Latika he is saving the last thing in this world that Jamal loves. While Jamal resists the life of a gangster, the easiest way to Are you referring to "Zanjeer" the film, or the novel, Slumdog Millionaire. When Salim gave the keys of his car and his telephone to Latika and tell her to run away free, He asks Latika to for give him for all the bad things he made in the past. "You really thought you could just walk in and take my prize away?" what does the title mean? In the movie Jamal was a slum person but when he started to play Who wants to be a millionaire and he won he change his life, he started to play because Jamal wanted that Latika take a look at him. Nice, you actually have something constructive to say about the problem. He is rescued from torture by a woman lawyer who calls herself Smita, and who listens to his explanations, given in the sequence of the relevant question number. In the movie, Jamal change in the good way, doing hard work. Salim makes the choice of putting all the money of Javed in the bathtub and then get into the bathtub him too, to shoot and kill Javed because he knowed that if Javed was dead he will no longer search for Latika or Jamal so they could be free. In my opinion, both of cities are suffering this problems. The producers, director, and writer are not Indian. Finally to make better the city and evoid this problem we should work together been helpful with who need us, we should make better goverments because this people is that help us, we should open our mind and see that this a big problem in our country and for grow we should work as a team. How can we solve this problem in the short term? Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. In the final scene, we see Salim and the choice he makes - filling the bathtub with money, etc. If think that the solution for this big problem here in Peru and probably in Mumbai also is the reorganization of the government. I believe there is a relation between the title and the movie, because the title is SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and it deals with the surprise somone gets when he sees that a slumdug has become a millionaire. Why did Salim leave Jamal? A lot of contestants who are more educated than him participated in the contest but they did not win. A thematic thread throughout the film is Jamal's belief in destiny. The title Means like two different words that don`t means anything together because slum mean like poor people and millionaire like a very rick people. Theres this famous saying that the truth shall set you free. He was dubbed the real Slumdog millionaire After he became the first person to win the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? What are the questions Jamal answers on the game show? In Lima also we didnt have gave a good formation to the poor children, that is why the poor children steal things. The host of the game show asks a question about which American statesman is on the one hundred dollar bill. Salim chose the way he wanted to die. He knows that if he didn't go now, there was trouble waiting for him so he chose to lay in a bathtub full of money because that's the way he wanted to go. The grateful producer paid for Salim's acting lessons, and got him started in the movie business.In the movie, Salim, who is Jamal's older brother, not his younger friend, is the one with the gun. Salim wanted to gie because he regrets his actions. By slowing down the images of the memories, Boyle invites the viewer into Jamal's interior life. But the answer is easy, and that person from a lower level have nothing that it is important to me, not the information I want, is not going to be my friend because it is simply a lower level than me, have no education, he doesn`t know important people, he dont have a job, and speak to them, all you get is wasting your time. Javed Khan calls Salim over and offers him a position in the gang. Is this a sign of progress? The bad education gives them a small idea of what moral is. GradeSaver "Slumdog Millionaire Imagery". Maman drops a bunch of coins on the ground and tells Salim to disappear with Jamal and forget the whole thing. *the classrooms are very small/crowded with students. This is ridiculous because there isnt going to start any war in Peru. Boyle shoots Maman on the extreme left edge of the frame as rain pours down over the man. Jamal teaches something really important, nothing it`s written and we are the ones that create our own future. Was Salim considered a good or bad brother? (8) For 10,000,000 rupees: Which cricketer has scored the most first-class centuries in history? bc he is from the slums & they thought he wouldn't be smart enough. *the bathrooms are a small wooden box that goes into the river. He is unable to see beyond himself, and his desire for power and wealth.. even if it means selling out his brother. But today he is a millionaire and television superstar, the first contestant to win $1 million on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.. Why did they blind the kid in Slumdog Millionaire? I think that the producers give this name to the movie to attract the attention of the people because is strange. And the only way to let that happen was to release Latika from the gangster who he worked with. He was hopeless and depressed. Salim finds the life of crime agreeable, but Jamal scrapes by with small jobs until landing a spot on the game show. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Salim Malik makes the decision of filled up the bathtub with all Javed money, because he want a redemption because from the beginning of his life, he always wanted to be rich, and at the end, he want to know that he was going to die, like he always want, rich. With that decision, he chose to work for him in shady dealings and work involved with crime. In addition, we can say that Salim wanted to stop working with the Indian mob, but didnt know how, so the only option was to sacrifice himself. This opportunity that he has to do a good thing, to not think himself and thinks in his brother that suffered at her side so small,. Child trafficking and drugs are still a menace to which such poor people, most times forgotten by law and police, have no defense at all. What does the title mean? which means that they family wont pass through the same way as he has do it. Slumdog Millionaire study guide contains a biography of director Danny Boyle, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. In Lima, near the school and near my house there is a slum called Manchay, where people dont have money to make houses. 'The film is true to life,' says Rupesh, who claims to be 17 but looks several years younger." Then, in my opinion, they should give them (when they become adults) a good job, so this will keep them doing things and will not give opportunity to get in drugs. Meanwhile Salim wanders through the streets of the city, eventually finding a group of gangsters and asking after Javed Khan, their leader. In the final scene, Jamal meets Latika in a train station where they share a kiss. A CD release came out in December. Instead his brother did the same, but in the bad way, being in the mafia. Give them chances to move on. In India there is a piramide wich explain the 5 categories of a person based on their money and job, In the movie as much as in real life this actually occurs, so marked, so strong that we do not even see what happen to people who are below us, or do you see in the news that a slumdog found a new cure to the diabetes and actually he really founded, no we dont see that, And what only is attracted to the media is when a person gives to a charity a good quantity of money. The plight of India's child beggars has been thrust into the international spotlight by Slumdog Millionaire, the British-made film tipped for Oscar glory. The solution to this problem is to organise the place where they are living, clean the area to avoid dissease. And also to improve their conditions of live, we can do the possible donate things, or search for works they can realize, or giving them moral support, making them smile. While Salim does not care about finding her, Jamal has a firm belief that he will be able to locate his childhood sweetheart, sifting through the 90 million people in the city. My enemy's enemy is a friend." He fills the bathtub, because he knows that his boss will kill him, as he let go of Latika, which was one of his girls, and had practically a slave. Salim then goes to work for Latika's pimp and helps to hold her captive until he has a change of heart and lets her escape with his car and cell phone. Salim filled the bathtub with money waiting Javed to kill him because he feel bad because he had wasted his life to earn money. In an attempt to prove his innocence, Jamal relates his life story, concentrating on the experiences that describe how he came to know the answers to each of the quiz questions. The imagery lets us know that we are not in the present time, but the past, and that the images being portrayed are ones that haunt Jamal's psyche. And also, provide them a psychological help to go beat their trauma. The city of Lima is the capital of Peru therefore; the lure of jobs in the city is a huge pull on those living in rural areas. No one would ever think that a slum-dog could end up winning that much money, and even less that he will earn it in Who Wants to be a Millionaire? His life has often been referred to as a true rags to riches story. Wikipedia.org In the final scene, we see Salim and the choice he makes filling the bathtub with money, etc. The older boy leads an escape, Salim in the movie, Ram in the book.There is more on-screen violence in the movie than in the book. But the problem is that most of them, act like Salim because it is the easiest way and also because getting into drugs and vices (for them) is the perfect way to go through the trauma they have from the left of their parents which is the cause of all this problem. Boyle is purposefully showing the shots of Latika running towards the phone and Salim layering money in the bath tub to create suspense for the audience as the figure out what will happen, and how each scene pieces into the end game of the movie. The children run into a large abandoned hotel and run up the stairs to a room, where Salim pours them cups of various liquors. In Peru, there is a very notable difference between the number of rich and poor people, that causes lots of society problems like for example discrimination between the different social classes. Jamal's motive for going on the show is to attract the attention of Latika, with whom he has lost contact (despite her being in the custody of his brother Salim). Not affiliated with Harvard College. I dont think so. Apart it is a form of entertainment. While it seems that the climactic eventJamal winning the game showis revealed within the first few moments of the film, the sequence of events that lead to this victory are far less straightforward than one might have imagined. The scene shifts back to the policemen's office. In conclusion, we can say that slums are caused by the lack of willpower of people who lives in them and that the only solution to this is the effort. This lack of values is what becomes in worse things like illegal work, frauds, gangs, stealing, etc. Salim takes that decision seeking for redemption for having once made his brothers life miserable. We must summon the participation of private enterprise and of society because no one can remain indifferent, we need to have more people aware, to see the reality of our country, that should carry us to realize that there are some issues that if it can not be solved, if you can be creating a mindset that we are all responsible for keeping many people continue to live in subhuman conditions, so it is necessary to create a culture of conscience, only so we will have a better country with better opportunities for all, the poor are stigmatized, and should not be so.