Quoc Nguyen
Eng 100 Assignment #3: Film-Based Argument In Slumdog Millionaire, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy shares the story of Jamal, a boy who grew up in the slum neighborhoods of India and managed to gain a spot on the game show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Throughout the film, Jamal is shown as a person who must overcome many obstacles to survive, including an experience of torture when he provides the correct answers to many game show questions. Most importantly does money bring true happiness? Most people would say it does, and the other might not agree with it. Money is something that the world wanted most because you can buy anything. It gives you the power to rule the poor, but money it's so powerful that make people blind their eyes and do whatever it take to reach that very goal. Wealth doesn't bring true happiness to Jamal and Salim because wealth had blinded Salim, and it separated the two brothers apart, which led Salim to do unforgivable things to Jamal. Wealth does not bring Jamal happiness because he only cared is his brother and Latika. He wants money because he wants to find a place to live in and food to prevent his hunger. After his mother was killed, both brother was forces to live in the street. Jamal, as the younger brother, he has no other choice except looking up to his older brother. They are struggles, until they both gone to separate ways. He happened to work as an employee to severe tea at the Phone call company. In fact, he happened to join a game show called Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? It was an opportunity for him to find his true happiness. They relied on each other for survival as outsiders. As they grew up, Salim’s reaction to their childhood and their isolation from the community is to behave in a violent and disrespectful way. He shows no concern for others and even abandons his brother his brother tries to stop the rape of Latika by Salim. Jamal responds differently to his childhood. He attempts to find his love one and getting a job in an international call center. Jamal purses love, not wealth and power. Wealth indeed bring people happiness because it makes them feel powerful and do whatever they want, but in exchange of something very important in their life that surrounding them, for instance family and friends are very precious gift that people have. When people are blinded by money, and do unforgivable things to their loved one, they tend to have biggest regret in the future because it will be too late to realizes how important family is. Wealth also does not bring Salim happiness because money can't buy people feeling. Salim is shown to be greedy as well as violent. As a child Salim is seen both selling his brother’s photograph for a few coins and he even stealing shoes from a holy site and selling them to others in the street. These actions show us that money is more important to Salim then his brother’s feeling. Even Though Salim become very wealthy but he lacks of true love. He realizes that money have absolutely no value when he’s living under the name of gangsters. It shows that he has no happiness when he committed suicide with full of his money. Money present how Salim obsess with money. He realizes that the world he living is loneliness because of the pain Salim made to the people around him Wealth does not bring true happiness to the two brothers because it makes them both feel loneliness, perhaps the lacks of love. Slumdog Millionaire is telling us that we all have choices in life to make but those decisions should be based on love, loyalty and family rather than money and power to find true happiness
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Slumdog Millionaire is a movie that had won the tournament madness. The story of the film based on Jamal Malik, who is reflecting experiences of his life to a police inspector who is accused him as a cheating during a game show called "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". He reflecting the story why he knew all the answers. The story between him and his brother, Salim. Salim is his older brother who became a gangster after he shot Maman during rescuing Latika. Latika is a girl who have lost their parent as a young age. She was found by Jamal while running away from a group of people who seem to hates Muslims. It was the moment when his mother was killed in front of his eyes. After the terrifying event had happened, the two brothers were forced to live on the streets with a girl named Latika, who they met and Jamal thinks she is a third musketeers. While living on the street with no other choice, they've found themselves a man who can take care of them. His name is Maman, a very mysteries man who is giving the childrens a shelter and food and make them works for him while he is searching for a person who has a talent. So the story went on as a reflecting of Jamal who is on his journeys to find his love one that were lost when they were chasing by Maman because they knew Maman would blind Jamal after Salim had witnessed an awful thing that Maman did to the other kid. The film Slumdog Millionaire is a heartbreaking film I’ve ever watched because the two brother supposed to walked the same path, but instead they walked completely different path. One of them ended up dead because he played with gun, must die with gun. I like the film because it shows how people become when they found a way to be wealthy, but in exchange of their love one.
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