1. 7) 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 slum dog 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?
Well, in this scene it was like saying that it was impossible for someone of his status to have enough knowledge to answer those questions when educated people couldn't answer them. In the end it basically states that the education one gets on the street is just as or more valuable than school education and proves that status doesn’t really matter, but the experiences that every person live are what make each individual who and what they are.
2. 8) 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 do the media promote? Are they humanizing values?
people value many things but in this particular show it shows partial interest of knowledge, but I feel that it is mostly interested in watching a fellow man fail when he gets his “just deserts” in this case his prize
In the first question, I agree because it is really true, a school doesn't determine 100% of the knowledge we have, it is also determined by the education we recieve in our houses and how good we are on making ourselves a more educated person.
ReplyDeleteIn the second question, I think that is more than that, people of course just watch the show to make fun of him if he doesn't know the answer, but some other people watch it because they want to give him a little bit of more support and show other people that any person who knows a little bit more about culture, or that have lived a lot more can even aswer those types of questions.
In the second question I disagree with Edgar because I think that those he mentioned are no values. I think the people have a very vane way of seeing happiness. They all dream to be millionaire and this kind of shows make them create ilusions on them, which sometimes can be accomplish and provokes them frustration. This is the usual result of those kind of expectations. Media should make people see that happiness should be based on more important elements.
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