Movie Screening Review

Slumdog Millionaire Review

“Slumdog Millionaire” is about a movie that tells us about an Indian boy named Salim who successfully passes his life difficulties hard work and patience. Salim and his brother, Jamal, were born from poor parents and live in a dirty slum. One day when Salim was about 5 years old, there was a slum clearing and his mother asked Salim and his brother to run. Their mother died in her fight against this clearing. Salim, together with his brother, ran as far as they could and met a little girl his age. During their escape, they slept in a box and one morning, there was a boy standing in front of their box giving something to drink when they woke up. That man seemed kind to them but in fact, he was the one who made children suffer. However, at the end of the story, all of them could run away from that scary man. There are two themes that can be taken from the movie “Slumdog Millionire”.

One of the themes of is that when people are able to answer hard questions, it does not mean that those people have good education. Salim has shown this to us. Salim is a standard Indian boy with low education who can join the ‘Who wants to be a millionaire’ quiz. He was able to answer all the questions and brought a lot of money to their family. Salim proved to all people especially to poor people that to win the quiz of ‘Who wants to be a millionaire’, does not need to be smart. When people have a lot of experiences, they already become smart people. Basically, Salim had difficulty when answering all the questions because when the questions related to world knowledge, Salim had never learnt that at school since he never got chance to go to school. He could answer all the questions given because he had wonderful experience. Another thing that makes Salim win the quiz is he has self – confidence. It is proven when he was stuck with a question and the host of ‘Who wants to be a millionaire’ gave the answer secretly, Salim did not use the answer from the host, and this led to the winning of Salim.

Another theme that can be taken from this movie is patience can lead to the happy ending. Salim already had feeling toward Latika since the first time Salim met Latika when they escaped from the police. After getting safe from being captured by police, Salim, Jamal and Latika were taken by someone that looked honest from his appearance but tricky in his heart. One day, Jamal was asked by that man to call Salim out because that man wanted to make Salim blind, but as a god brother, Jamal successfully helped Salim and those three children were trying to escape from that place. However, when Jamal and Salim jumped successfully into a train, Salim could not safe Latika from those dangerous people. Salim felt really guilty and after he could earn money, he came back to that place and took Latika out. Furthermore, there are many difficulties that Salim and Latika had to face to be together. However, with patience, Salim and Latika could live happily ever after.

In conclusion, in order to survive in this world, people should be able to working hard and be patient. With patience and hard working, we could solve many problems in front of us. It is suggested that when people get difficulties, they should learn from their mistakes and try to improve the weaknesses they have.


By:
Jessica Gunawan
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