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Members: 1. Trần Nguyễn Việt Hà

2. Nguyễn Ngọc Phương Trang
3. Lê Phạm Thanh Uyên

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Question 1:
 After watching the film, I found that poverty was too great, and money was very
important and great in the society. Because of the money the two cousins have to go
through painful hardships, because of money for a living, you have to be blind to cause
damage to the opposite person. Money is the way to happiness and a better life; everyone
and every culture should have these same desires. Moreover, the movie seemingly tells
us that emerging from poverty is as easy as joining a game show.
 Through this movies, I have understood more about life in slum, how hard it is. Even with
those crazy scenes in parallel while he is answering or thinking the answers. The intensity
at the climax.

Question 2:
 Salim is perhaps the most sympathetic character in the film. While most of the audience
is not likely to have experienced the kind of crippling poverty, food scarcity, and violence
that the Malik brothers did. He is really great in this movie. Although, in the movie, he did
so many mistakes, but at the end of the film I feel like he realized all the mistakes he did.
So, he told Latika to find Jamal, he wants them to be happy. He deserves the happiness
too.

Question 3:
 In my opinion, Latika is the reason why this film is so success. She was an extremely shy
girl, while she was standing and waiting in the rain and looking at Jamal and Salim, who
are sleeping in a dry accommodation, she was not moving or trying to get the boy’s
attention. Also Latika is very smart. While the children are playing and sleeping at
Maman’s area, Latika plays a trick on Salim when he is sleeping. At this time, she is able
to do action against people, nevertheless the other people are more powerful than she
is. Not only that, Latika has a great influence on Jamal, she is the reason for him to win.
After hardships, they found each other again, and when Jamal called Latika to answer the
last question, Jamal's gaze seemed to have hope and happiness. And I'm also happy for
them to have such a beautiful ending.
Question 4:
 Slumdog tells the fairy tale with amazing clarity and beauty. The soundtrack pulsates as
the camera angles move the story along at a blissful pace. The slums of India are the
setting darker than any Cinderella and her wicked step-sisters. Children, orphans mostly,
work as part of a crime syndicate that leads to more and more oppression. Through this
painful setting, we see the emergence of three characters, Salim, Jamal, and Latika.
 The plot moves on through the device of the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a
Millionaire?" That competition is a magical miracle that will become an opportunity for
miserable people in the Mumbai slums to transform their lives like characters in other
fairy tales.
 Jamal is a contestant who is winning because of the individual experiences he has as a
boy in the slums, a slumdog. Even the quiz questions were in perfect sequence, from the
start of his life to the present. The movie was very cinematic though, with an unbelievable
perfection and coincidence, with an epic kind of feel to it.
 Some of the grim moments in there played out through the game when we could see life
of Jamal, Salim and Lakita, however, loved every second of characters is one of elements
of a fairytale and it makes you come out of it with a smile.

Question 5:
 At the end of the movie, the protagonist's brother, Salim, decides to stop being a gangster
for once and help out his brother, which involves getting himself killed in a bathtub filled
with money after he killed the gang leader.
 Seeing his brother answering trivia questions on TV causes Salim to have a change of
heart, so he lets Latika go free, despite knowing that this will undoubtedly piss off his boss
and he will surely die. But he still decided to let Latika escape. Salim's sacrifice was to
cultivate his brother's happiness as well as pay for the mistakes he had made.

Question 6:
 The film ends with Salim's death and the gang boss as well as Jamal's victory and Jamal's
reunion with Latika at the station. At there, Jamal and Latika are sharing a tender moment
in an empty train station—a much deserved moment of peace after they're safely
reunited. The movie really ends with a Bollywood-esque dance and celebration with
overflowing joy and happiness.
 I totally praise this sequence and I think that end is perfectly suited to the nature of the
film - a fairy tale like other fairy tales which at the end of, evil people always are punished
and good people always have happiness. In turn, each villain was killed, and Salim's death,
though leaving a little regret, was entirely appropriate because Salim had already repaid
 the sins which he had caused. As for Jamal and Latika, they were finally able to come
together and start changing their lives to become brighter.
 And as a tip of the hat to Bollywood blockbusters which never skimp on elaborately
orchestrated song and dance. "Jai Ho” roughly translate to “My Destiny”, showed the
happiness of escaping the misery and belief in a better future of not only Jamal and Latika
but also the miserable people in the slums of Mumbai. The perfect ending to this crowd
pleaser of a movie.

Question 7:
 Latika is one of his fates; she is one of the key in his success. The appearance of Latika is
the basis to make almost the act which will be the answer in the game show.

Question 8:
 If Slumdog Millionaire had a sequel, it might be about when Jamal became a millionaire,
he would use all of his money to found an orphanage, he became a millionaire because
of his unfortunate childhood. Understand better than anyone, when he and his brother
living in begging with Maman and nearly lost his eyes and this make him obsess about his
childhood, so he would use his money to help other poor children in slumdog.

Question 9:
 No, because If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a third-world, dirty, underbelly
developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be
known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's
just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea, authored by an Indian and conceived and
cinematically put together by a westerner, gets creative global recognition. In addition,
according to one of directors of Slumdog Millionaire as many other Bollywood no-talents
will be, about the fact that the best film to be made about India in recent times has been
made by a white man so Slumdog Millionaire could only have been made by westerners.

Question 10:
 Yes, because when Maman forced Salim took his young brother to him. Between the
money, power and his younger brother, he chooses his brother. This moment shows us
about the humanity of the film.