• In one exchange of dialogue in the film during the interrogation of Jamal, the police inspectors discuss the impossibility of what Jamal knows.
Police Inspector: Doctors... Lawyers... never get past 60 thousand rupees. He's on 6 million. [pause]
Police Inspector: What can our slumdog possibly know?
Jamal Malik: [quietly] The answers.
Discuss the irony in the film that Jamal “knows too much” and is suspected of cheating. Discuss the irony that in the end, his poverty may make him rich. What point is the film making? What is real wealth?

In the film Jamal is a young man, that have had a very difficult time since he was a child, but his experiences has giving him a lot of knowledge, he had lived a lot of important things and he didnt forget them. His knowledge and the things he have learned are extraordinary, because he was a poor boy and with a life without luxuries and good things like going to a school..

I think Jamal is using irony in that part of the film because the director wanted to reveal to the audience and the people that is watching it information about the character’s situation of which the other characters are not aware. Foreshadowing allow the reader or audience to witness scenes or situations that a character does not have access to.

• The game show format brings into to focus the culture of meaningless competition. What does the spectacle of the game say about what people value today? What values does the media promote? Are they humanizing values?

What people value today has anything to do with values, is more about money, power, beauty, class... and many of the people that want to have that achievments make bad things, or make desicions that are going to affect them in a bad way, to them and to other people. An example is George Bush, he didnt care of how many soldiers were going to die or how many inocent people were going to be affected. So, what most of the people value today is almost the same as the brother of Jamal wanted.

• Greed, corruption and the misuse of power are highlighted in the film through a variety of characters. How are those who have money and power glamorized in this film? What happens to the victims?

The ones that have power and a lot of things that comes with that like money... are the ones who have a lot but not the ones that have a good life, what i mean is that the power has givin them the opportunity to do whatever they want, even if they are doing wrong or making people their victims.

In this film Jamal and his girlfriend are victims of her brother and althougt of the boss. But at the end they lose and Jamal and her win a great life.

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