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The Film Comment of Slumdog Millionaire

The film opens as Jamal Malik, a former street child from the slums, was tortured by two Mumbai policemen. The film is organized into two mixed plots. And then we get this is a story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who was about to experience the special day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he just answered the question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for a night, police arrested him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? The police asked Jamal how he came to know the answer to a question, and Jamal replied by recounting an incident in his life, told in flashbacks. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal telled the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story revealed the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Intrigued by Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returned to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about that if he could be the Millionaire.

Genre

Depend on the basis of subject matter, formal properties, style or affective response. We can define Slumdog Millionaire as a Social Drama, Romance, and Comedy. We know that drama is a category comprising serious films that portray character in conflict with themselves, others, or foces o f nature. Social drama, whose narrative concern or conflict is a social problem -poverty, inequality, discrimination, racism, or exclusion. Slumdog Millionaire can be classified as a social drama, with the social problem at its heart being so called abduction of children, classism, religious conflict, and the rich and the polarization. In Jamal's life, he faced his mother killed by heretic; he and his brother abducted by the bad man; and he was laughed because he was tea worker. From another point of view, like many of the great love stories, the Slumdog Millionaire is Romance film, which means that its narrative centers on the romantic involvement of the main

characters, the development of their relationship, and the obstacles they faced. Like all the romance film, the Slumdog Millionaire bases on they met each other in childhood, they faced involuntary separation, financial difficulty. The love can be power to stand in the stage of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" for Latika But they defeated the circumstance beyond their control, and then would live happily forever. The essence of the way they followed is the "force opposed to love" that by presenting obstacle to the lovers turns the love affair into a story. Thirdly, it also own some comedy elements in it. From the farce of the two brothers, such as, when Jamal answered the call of nature, Salim closed the door. For another plot, the people danced at the train station. Also, it ended with a happy ending.

Character and Performance

Every character has their feature .I will introduce the two brothers. Jamal, the minor character, he is a kind man. In order to get an idol signature can jump into cesspit. He wouldn't discard partner. After escaped, he still went back and looked for the friends who trapped in the gang. He loved Latika no matter how time and the environment changes, he still loved her as Forrest Gump. He didn't have any brave feat, outrageous behavior, he just insisted, no abundance, didn't give up. He relied on his own efforts to meet his friends and loved ones. But the secondary character, Salim adapted to life without moral restraint, without real romantic temperament, he had the courage to killed the gang boss. He could be loyal to his younger brother in a last-minute, also could betray his brother publicly. For the money and power he can live with gang boss, he also can apprehend the truth suddenly. Perish together with bad people together, with the pursuit of money of mutually assured destruction. In that the social environment, Salim is a very typical character, the choice of the natural balance produces the man like him. I shall not be denied his survival ability is very strong. Someone said Salim too cunning, and Jamal was too naive. I feel a bit accurately described as "opportunist" and "idealist".

In the movie, all the actors gave us a real performance. The act has "got inside" the character's psyche marks the performance as more authentic than other style, creating a pure presence of character unadulterated by any sense of the performer's identity. We can get easily that