*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?
He has gone through many things, different situations that life put him through and taught him a lot of things that’s why he’s got a lot of experience, a type of knowledge that even if you have studied a lot you won't have.
• *In the final scene, we see Salim and the choice he makes - filling the bathtub with money, etc. Why does he make this choice?
He gets in the bathtub to protect himself because he knows the guy would go after him. But in a way he knows he is going to die, but he let Latika go with Jamal though he was going to get killed because they deserved it.
I agree with the first answer since I believe that the irony is that even though he had no studies, the experience that he had lived through life was greater. The point of the movie is to let us know that experience is acquired by life and not only by studies.
ResponderEliminarIn the second question, I believe that filling the bathtub with money was a sign of power he wanted to demonstrate, a sign that showed that he was not afraid and was able to choose.