–Slumdog Millionaire Movie Review
The location of the film is prosperous India, but what we are shown on camera are people fishing for goods in the dirty river, huge mountains of garbage, ragged shanties, women washing clothes in the muddy yellow river, crowded and noisy daytime in the slums, violent and bloody religious conflicts, and the childhood of orphans who steal and cheat like wild horses crawling around individually. As the director says: “This is the real India.”
The movie tells the story of a slum boy named Jamal who participates in a program called “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” and wins 20 million rubles. What is it that motivates him to become a millionaire? I kept asking myself. Then, I understood. His childhood experiences illustrated every right answer, and yet they were not happy experiences. His kindness, his perseverance, made him a millionaire.
The background of the second question is what he experienced as a child, the riots in the slums and the tragic death of his mother, which is a metaphor for the hard life of the class people in India. What shocked me was that when all the relatives died and the houses collapsed, he took responsibility for everything and helped a girl. This is perhaps the innate goodness of man.
At the last moment of becoming rich, the host wrote the answer “B” on the mirror, implying that it was the right answer. I don’t think it was a simple question, but rather a choice of his orientation in life, whether to choose the right answer or to stick to himself. In the end, he didn’t choose the host’s answer, he chose his own heart’s answer “D”, and the result was a reversal, the host’s answer was wrong, to test him, he stuck to himself and won. In fact, in the end, it was his perseverance that made him a millionaire, and that was the best scene of his life. This also made me understand that in everything you do, you have to follow your heart, at the crossroads of choice, adhere to your own self, to guard your first heart, can only succeed.
Jamal seems to me to be a man who has a goal and works towards it. When he was five or six years old, he was locked in the “toilet” by his brother, but when he heard that his favorite star, Amida, was coming, he didn’t hesitate to jump into the cesspool and run all the way to his idol to get his autograph, covered in shit, to get it. He fights with his brother Salim for the woman he loves, Latika, and even goes looking for her every day after he loses contact with her, and when he finds her, he tells her that he will wait for her at the station every day at 5 o’clock. This shows how brave, fearless and persistent he is in his pursuit of his goal. Isn’t that what we should be striving for? In reality, how many people can really be brave enough to move forward towards their goals, persevere, and be fearless enough to do what they want to do without being defined when people who don’t know you label you as a “label”?
Slumdog Millionaire truly captures the darkness and cruelty of the real world, the unbearable reality of the lives of the Indian class, and the ideals and innocence that never let go of this cruelty. As long as we have a goal in mind and work hard toward it, the flower of our dreams will one day quietly bloom. And success on the road of stumbling, are growing up through the tribulations, thorns and thistles on the road, adhere to the beginning, adhere to the goodness to keep moving forward. All the hardships are given to you by God, the best wealth!
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