Boyle, D. & Tandan, L. (Directors). (2008). Slumdog Millionaire. London: Celador Films. [Motion Picture].
Slumdog Millionaire is about Jamal, an eighteen year old orphan from Mumbai, who is one question away from winning 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” game show. Overnight, he is arrested and accused for cheating on the game show. Jamal takes the film viewers back through his life to explain all the places he has been and everything he has learned. He has answered each question correctly by life with his brother Salim, his love Latika, and his life on the street which has taught him the common sense he needs to know. Not only does this film show the culture in India, but more importantly, it shows the culture of an orphan. An orphan may experience a much more difficult lifestyle than a child with a home. Instead of authority, in this case the police, acknowledging how far the eighteen year old boy has come, the police try to take him down. Being threatened by the fact that an eighteen year old boy will be winning the game show, people of more authority try to be-little him and make sure Jamal doesn’t win. See interesting study guide at http://www.agkino.de/britfilms/6/archiv/StudyGuide-SlumdogMillionaire.pdf