In the appealing and fetching chase through the slums of Juhu, the filmmaker theatres visual-spatial complexity of the slums while familiarizing the spectator to the characters. This can be visually depicted in the scene from the movie when Jamal drops a catch as the aircraft leaps up from behind and two safekeeping guards in the motorbike with a stick in their hand, yelling “private ka-land” “Chalo bhago yaha se” chase the boys and the chase endures the airfield. The boys run as fast as they could making fun of the security guards giving them thumbs down and yelling “the dogs are coming”. The boys jump off the garbage dump along the sewer lines that demarcate the slum. Moreover, the boys past rotten pool and tin roofs along thin lanes that …show more content…
But unlike Slum Dog Millionaire, this movie does not portray intense congestion of the slum throughout the movie which in the Oscar winning was signified through the chase scene. In Slum Dog Millionaire, Boyle provides the Westerners with a sigh of reality of India which is close to the third world poverty. According to me, the film uses overdramatic and overemotional styles to upsurge mindfulness of scarcity on children in India. Moreover, Jamal and Salim throughout the movie represent poverty that is signified clearly from their clothes, the area that they live in, the way they talk and the way they are treated in the movie. Classism is evidently visualized in Slum Dog Millionaire which in the result of poverty in a worldwide economy. In the movie, Jamal instead of his name, is continuously is called as a “chai wallah” in various scenes of the movie. Which clearly indicates that he is referred to as someone who belongs to a low-class family and not from an elite class. When Jamal is inspected and examined by the police officer in the movie, he asserts that “Because I’m a slumdog chai wallah, I’m a cheat, right?” To this question, the police officer answers that, “Most of you are” (Slumdog Millionaire 2008). This class status was the core reason he was bashed with adverse and negative comments when he got a …show more content…
Every character in the film is a mere representation of poor life. Krishna constantly informs the viewers that he needs to earn Rs. 500 in order to return back home and repay his mother. Krishna’s friend steals money which ultimately shows how scarcity is prevailed in slums and Chillum is working as a drug seller to earn money. Sola Saal is forced to sell her virginity and another prostitute (mother of Manju) is in love with a drug pusher. The lives of each character in the film shows the lives of children on the street of Bombay. Struggle for survival is the main problem in the film around which the entire story revolves. Poverty can be visualized by character’s struggle to search job, job situations, coercion, less payments and extensive hours of work signifies intensive struggle and life in poverty of the characters in the slums. “Slum is a dirty word” therefore whenever we think about a slum what we visualize is garbage, filth and a large number of people living there. In the chase scene, while the security guard makes his way through the narrow lane to chase the boys he is bombarded with trash, cans and other filth by the children who are on roof top. During the chase scene, a boy is also shown in the water picking up the garbage from an extremely unclean filthy
Everyone wants to be a part of the streets but not everyone has the heart, dedication, or strength to live the lifestyle. There is a law of ethics when running around in the streets. There are rules that one always has to follow in order to survive. There is no love when dealing with those that follow the code, ones heart has to be made coal because anything can happen and anything goes. Out there in the streets you are a family that continuously looks out for each other and let nothing separate the bond that you have on the streets. In this paper I will discuss what the code of the street is and what is consist of, also residential segregation and how it hold those in the streets back from achieving success.
‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is a film that features a character, Jamil Malik, who lives in Dubai and is considered an ignorant young boy. Jamil Malik had never went to school or college and would not have known any of the answers for the game show, “Who wants to be a Millionaire” but was given the prejudge of being on the show because he grew up in the slums of India. Jamil’s life experiences allowed him an
Slumdog Millionaire is a British Drama Film, set in India. India is the second largest country by area in Asia, and with over 1.2 billion people it is the second most populous country in the world, after China. The film was released in 2008 and portrays the different aspects of India as a country. Throughout the film different themes are addressed especially the issue of poverty. The word Slumdog refers to someone who lives in a slum, as does Jamal Malik the protagonist in the film.
Despite the many attempts to eliminate poverty, the problem has never been solved. Even though these efforts have helped lower the numbers of people becoming poverty-stricken every year it the numbers still seems to progress. In the novel Behind the Beautiful Forevers Author, Katherine Boo brings a different perspective. Boo takes the reader into the Annawadi slum of Mumbai, India. The Slum was presented a jumbled, filthy and impoverished area hidden from the view of westerners and better-off Indian citizens beyond the concrete wall. Her Novel Serves as a snapshot into the lives of the impoverished people of Annawadi and a great comparison to poverty lines in America. In this essay, I will compare the way that Katherine Boo has presented the miserable lives of those in the slums and the poverty-stricken in America today.
Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire follows two brothers from the Juhu slum in Mumbai as they face the trials and tributes of growing up in poverty. Although Salim, the elder brother, is given the same childhood experiences and trauma as his younger brother Jamal, his drive and hunger for power lead him to a life of crime, corruption and misconduct. These actions later have a detrimental effect on his relationship with Jamal, which in turn, becomes his demise. Boyle uses a range of effective film techniques to develop Salim’s growth as a character which helps to communicate the idea that ambition can enhance an individual or be the reason for their downfall. Throughout the film, Boyle uses the varying stages of Salim’s life through
Poverty is a terrible condition, which as unfortunate as it is, many people across the globe suffer from. Poverty can present itself in many ways and in many different circumstances, which is shown in the following stories. In ' Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt, young Frank is burdened with the responsibiliity of providing for his family. Similarly, in 'The Street' by Ann Petry, Lutie, a single black mother, is struggling to find shelter for her family. In both 'Angela's Ashes' and 'The Street,' a key member of each family is desperately trying to support their loved ones and meet their basic human needs. In both passages, the author uses specific characters, events, and settings to demonstrate the theme that one needs perseverance to overcome poverty.
Both the movie Slumdog Millionaire and the novel White TIger were set in India, but the two pieces tended to respresent two ideas that clashed together. In Slumdog Millionaire, the main character is honest and rises above corruption, making it out of the slums of the world and even gets a girl! Balram in White Tiger, however, succeeds in life by become less human and more corrupt. The novel itself pretty much laughs in the face of the usual story of the good guy winning.
Boo’s story begins in Annawadi, a trash-strewn slum located by the Mumbai International Airport. This “sumpy plug of slum” had a population of three thousand people
I chose to learn a little bit more about Indian culture, and I thought Slum Dog Millionaire was a great resource to do so. This movie depicts the story of 2 young Indian boys and their journey in life through love, hardship, and culture. The story starts out with the two boy living a happy life with their mother, but when their mother dies from the religious wars they are forced to learn to fend for themselves. On their journey they let a little girl tag along on their journey. The movie depicts what starts out to be a struggle to survive then they against all odds makes it out and make a name for themselves by winning India’s version of “Who wants to be a millionaire”.
The government also promises to the poor, better schools and hospitals. Balram’s father died because there was improper medical care in their home town, and the life expectancy in India is only 66.8 years. There are nearly 1,189,172,906 people in India and only 61% of the people living in India are literate. In New Delhi, though, the government does fulfill its promises to the rich. They live unaware and uncaring of the slums surrounding their middle class lives. The government makes promises of better livelihoods to its people that are never fulfilled; causing India’s poor to remain in the slums and the government to have little understanding of the problems poor people face.
Elijah Anderson’s Code of Street is an ethnographic study of several neighborhoods in Philadelphia in the early to mid-1990s. This book is mainly focus on the criminal elements, economical, educational, social, and judicial system in the African American communities. Anderson did several interviews, field observations and researches for four years to demonstrate the internal factors that hold on inner cities. Decency, violence, and the moral life of the inner cities are the most significant key arguments in this book. Author aim in this book is to concentrate on the social and cultural aspects of the interpersonal violence, which is undermining the quality life on the urban communities. Furthermore, it explains the drugs culture, scarcity of sustainable jobs, racial discrimination, and frustration in impoverish neighborhoods.
Poverty and oppression is a serious condition that is prevalent even in today’s modern society. Women and children are exposed to poverty and subjected to a life of injustice. One of the countries where such problems still occur is in India. Despite the country’s modernization, there lies an undercity where the disparity of wealth is transparent. These social problems are thoroughly described in movies and literature such as Slumdog Millionaire and Behind the Beautiful Forevers. In the book Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Catherine Boo, the author describes slum life for a set of individuals and the hardship that their social conditions confined them to. Another movie that gave insight to slum life in India is Slumdog Millionaire
In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, Salim and Jamal made many choices that affected them very differently even though they were both presented the same obstacles. In fact, the decisions that Jamal has made throughout his life helped him to acquire all the answers to the questions presented to him on the Indian version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”. The choices that they made were sculpted by their poverty and surroundings. Larry Ervin, the author of Slumdog Millionaire's Artful Dodge - Film Review, states “From the same mother, nurtured by most of the same harrowing experiences, Jamal and Salim follow different paths. The older brother is seduced down the path of money and power, employing his stolen gun in service of a local gangster,
Slumdog Millionaire is a multi-Oscar winning film directed by Danny Boyle that was based on the novel, Q & A written by Vikas Swarup. The novel is a love story about a man trying to get back the love of his life from a
India is a country in central Asia with a population of over 1.22 billion people making it the second most populous country in the world. Its high population is one of the factors that results in India having such a high poverty rate. In India today over 37% of the population live below the poverty line. The reality of such a statistic means that these people live in conditions unimaginable to people of the western world. In the film Slumdog Millionaire by director Danny Boyle deeper ideas associated with this poverty are developed including destiny, loyalty and how poverty frees us. These deeper ideas are developed through visual techniques