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Slumdog Millionaire's iconic finale is nothing if not memorable. Sure it comes a little bit out of nowhere; one minute Jamal and Latika are sharing a tender moment in an empty train station—a much deserved moment of peace after they're safely reunited—and the next they're leading a sprawling throng of extras in a full-blown, raucous ...
Dec 2, 2021 · Nina Rydningen. ·. Follow. 2 min read. ·. Dec 2, 2021. The story in the movie follows Jamal, and his point of view from the start. The story´s time is manipulated, meaning it is not...
The game show is what ties it all together. It's the framing device for the movie, which tells the story of a kid from the slums of Mumbai. His life is revealed one piece at a time through anecdotes that end up teaching him the answer to one of the questions on the show.
Slumdog Millionaire, self-styled ‘feel-good film of the year’, starts out harrowing, charts a nose-dive trajectory though evil and human suffering, and never quite manages to shake off the beginning and middle for the ‘rags-to-rajah’ boy-gets-girl happy ending.
- What Is Authentic, What Is Not?
- Narcissism and Film
- The Kind American
- The Kind, But Blind American
- Is There A ‘Real’ Britain Or America?
When we go to the cinemas and watch a realist film, we bring along certain expectations. The worldbuilding, images, and storyline must be consistent and well-developed to the extent where we suspend our disbelief and treat the fictional film almost like a real-life event. The believability of the film therefore hinges on how well the filmmaker and ...
Narcissism, in the generic sense, refers to an obsession with the self. More often than not, it includes degrading other people, portraying them as inferior in order to elevate the narcissistic self. Laura Mulvey, an esteemed film theorist who published pieces on psychoanalytic film theory, has much to say about how narcissism is intricately relate...
This white saviour complex manifests itself in a particular trope that appears not only in Slumdog Millionaire, but also in The White Tiger:the ‘Kind American’ versus ‘Cruel Indian’ trope. In Slumdog Millionaire, this trope appears when Jamal cheats a pair of American tourists and their Indian chauffeur. As Jamal brings the tourists and the chauffe...
At first glance, The White Tiger seems to be as narcissistic as Slumdog Millionaire. The film also focusses on India’s slums, some of the characters also speak in American-accented English, and the film is distributed globally through Netflix. But I’d like to give the film the benefit of doubt. Because it seems to me that it is made for Indians who...
Alas, just like how I don’t have the authority to decide which film portrays a ‘realer’ India, I don’t have the authority to decide which film portrays a ‘realer’ America or Britain either. Even so, it pays to be sceptical and critical. I am still unconvinced by the kindness portrayed in Slumdog Millionaire. And as much as The White Tiger is a film...
The reason to bring up Slumdog Millionaire is on some level it didn't entirely do justice to its settings but in my opinion The White Tiger did, the topics are similar and both movies succeeded in their storytelling and the parallels just kept hitting me.
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Dec 2, 2021 · The movie: Slumdog millionaire, is based of the book by the same name, written by Vikas Swarup. The story follows Jamal and his point of view, we get to see flashbacks of his past and his own…
