DEFYING GENOCIDE

DEFYING GENOCIDE

1. What did Damas Gisimba, Carl Wilkens, and Simon Weil Lipman value, and what risks did they take by holding onto their values?
2. What values did the children of the orphanage demonstrate?
3. As events unfolded, what were Damas Gisimba's concerns?
4.What does it mean - as both Simone Weil Lipman and Damas Gisimba state - to "see the other as yourself?"

Think back to the incidents that took place during the Rwandan genocide:
1. What role did the international community play during the genocide?
2. Does the international community have the responsibility of assisting countries threatened by genocide?
3. How can students get involved and make their voices heard against genocide? (For suggestions, visit www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/students/)

Think about challenges you face in your everday life:
1. Have you ever witnessed an incident by which a bystander took the responsibility of offering assistance to someone in need of help? What happened?
2. When someone needs help, do bystanders have the responsibility to offer assistance? What do bystanders risk when they intervene and when they do not get involved?

At the end of the film, Damas Gisimba stated that hatred must be "banished" to make the world a peaceful place. Reflect on that and answer the following:
1. What is "hatred?" When is it dangerous?
2. What are examples of different forms of hatred in the global community?
3. Can hatred be banished?
4. What would it take to banish hatred?
5. Whose responsibility is it to work to end hatred or to respond when hatred provokes violence?

Slumdog Millionaire Questions:),

- What do you think the film is saying about the globalization of culture through media? We see the game show"Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" adapted in the Indian culture. Is this a sign of progress? Why or why not?What is this film staying about the effect of money on culture?

culture is promoted by the average and the fact that theey adapted from "who wants to be a millionaire" to the indian culture is much progress because everything is globalizing and about the movie the most important thing for them is the money.


- The game show format brings into to focus the culture of meaningless competition. What does the spectacleof the game say about what people value today? What values does the media promote? Are they humanizingvalues?

in the movie more than promote values they are promote the importance of the money, in the movie that i saw what the people are interested more in the money than in the values, everything for them is money and moneey, what the people value most today is the money...
but in the movie jamal won a lot money and he was not interested.

Questions for reflection: Slumdog millionaire

*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.

slamdog millionare reflexion questions

• In one pivotal scene, the show’s host tells Jamal his own story about coming from the slums. He then gives
Jamal the wrong answer written on the mirror in the rest room. Why did he give Jamal the wrong answer?
Becuase he was the only person in history that have win, and he don’t want to loose his fame or that his story repeats.

What did Jamal do?
Don’t trust , he ask for 50% of possibilities and look that there was the answer the show’s host give him and he choose the other.

• This film weaves together nightmare and impossible dream. What do you take away as the most important message or impression from the film?
that all in this life i possible and that you learn all in life, you learn because of the things you live and you remeber etc .

Slumdog Millionaire Questions

What does the title mean? How does the title and the contrasts within it provide symbolic summary of the film?

I think is like a person from the street, those persons you see roaming everywhere and seem worthless, that at last transforms into a millionaire.

Is ethical decision making possible when one must make choices based on survival? Do seemingly “bad” choices make a person bad?

Yes. No, because if the decision is for your survival, is correct for you.

What do you think the film is saying about the globalization of culture through media? We see the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” adapted in the Indian culture. Is this a sign of progress? Why or why not? What is this film staying about the effect of money on culture?

That in countries we think are not that advanced like India, they really are. It can be told that yes, because they are offering money in the game, so they have a "good" economy. That money is one or maybe the "one" most important thing on culture.

Slumdog Millionaire; Questions of refection & discussion

·Early in the film we see the young Jamal dive into a latrine pit to steal a glimpse at a visiting movie star. How does his single-mindedness to see this movie star reveal his determination?What other examples do you see in the film of his determination?

He shows that he is not giving up his wish at an obstacle, which tells that if he has proposed himself something, he will accomplish it.
All the things he does for founding Latika; asking the blind boy, following Salim, entering the show, etc.

·In the film, the theme of destiny is a central theme. What does it mean that all Jamal desires is just out of his reach? (The prized autograph, Latika, his brother, the answers, etc.)

It means that if we wish something, and be able to fight strongly for it, we may obtain it.

·This film weaves together nightmare and impossible dream. What do you take away as the most important message or impression from the film?

Knowledge is not the same as studies. As the police man and the detective said "Doctors... Lawyers... never get past 60 thousand rupees." They all may have had incredible studies, but had never live even half the experiences Jamal did. Maybe we study a lot more than many people, but they may have learn more than us. We should never understimate no one.