We have watched the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" and I want you to think about the follwing things:
1: Do you agree that it is "the feel-good film of the decade"?
2: Which scene is your favourite/least favourite? why?
3: What does this film tell you about modern day India?
4: Did you recognize anything from your English classes in the film?
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SvarSlet1: Do you agree that it is "the feel-good film of the decade"?
SvarSletWell, for me it’s not a “feel-good” film. The bad thing that happens weighs too much to me. For example the scenes were the children-home is abusing the children and making them blind, this is ruing the “feel-good” experience for me.
2: Which scene is your favourite/least favourite? Why?
Probably the scene where they are sitting on the train, it’s a beautiful scene.
3: What does this film tell you about modern day India?
The modern India is industrialized with big factories and so on. And the scene with the call-center tells us a lot about having a job in a call-center, with the instruction in the job, where they have to learn about the English or American culture.
4: Did you recognize anything from your English classes in the film?
The things we have learned about call-centers, is used in this movie. We see how they work together and train together, to take about “Big ben” or something else in the English culture for example.
Laura Mailand.
1: Well, it is hard to tell since i have not seen every single feel good movies of this decade. But this movie is absoulutely good. So it is definitely one of the best.
SvarSlet2: My favourite scene in the movie must be where he is calling Latika during the 20 million rupee question. It is a great "qlimax" point in the movie, it is a really tense part of the movie, which makes this scene very exiting indeed.
3: Modern day india is modern day India. It looks just like i espected. Crowded streets full of busy people, doing all sorts of stuff. The Big Indian city's is full of poor people living in slum neighboorhoods. And the so called orphanages is abusing children without parents. They even make some of the children blind so they can earn more money when they beg on the street.
4: The call centre is especially one of the things that i recognize. Also when Jamal is inside the studio in "who wants to be a millionaire" he is looked down at because of his job as a tea boy at a call centre. A so called "Chai-walla". (A wallah is someone who performs a specific task)
-Oskar Steffensen.
1) I think it is a movie based on many emotions, but i don't actually thinks that the movie makes me happy more than it makes me feel something else. But i felt very happy when Jamal succeeded and became a millionaire.
SvarSlet2) I especially liked the scene where Jamal and his brother Salim suffered to survive on the train, and after that when they got kicked out by some passengers where they, in middle of nowhere, saw the big temple "Taj Mahal" - This scene represented the close banded the brothers have.
3) This film tells me about how India changed in the past time, from being a slums to citys. India became a industrialization, and could now offer more opportunity for example; the call centres.
1: Do you agree that it is "the feel-good film of the decade"?
SvarSletI do not agree that it is the absolut best feel-good film of the decade. It's a good movie, but definitely not the best one. I would prefer one with a little less killing and drama.
2: Which scene is your favourite/least favourite? why?
My favourite scene in the movie, must be the last scene where Jamal and Latika finally gets each other, and it ends with a kiss. Because i'm so damn romantic..... heheheheh.
3: What does this film tell you about modern day India?
That it is very hectic. The streets are full of people and cars. They have a lot of factories, and there is just not enough space to so many people and things.
4: Did you recognize anything from your English classes in the film?
I noticed that Jamal worked on a call-center in India. They train and work the exact same way as we saw in another movie. It's is just as hectic as i thought.
1: No. I think that it is a very good movie, but I don't think that it is THE feel-good movie of the decade. I was engrossed in the movie, and it was really interesting.
SvarSlet2: I loved the scene, where Salim, Jamal and Latika were children, and they had to escape from Mamman. Salim and Jamal got on the train, but Salim let go of Latika's hand.
I liked this scene, because it shows very good, how the 'roles' are. Salim tells Jamal that she let go, even though it was the other way around.
3: that call-centers are very 'popular' in India and it is becoming more and more of an industry-city. They are also becoming more of an Americanized community, for an example because of the game-show "Who wants to be a Millionaire"
4: Yes, how they work in the call-centers, and how they have to learn to speak with an American accent. I also couldn’t help but notice that all what Gandhi fought for wasn’t there. The fights between the Muslims and the Hindus are still there.
Nanna Flasnes
1: Do you agree that it is "the feel-good film of the decade"?
SvarSletWell, i like the movie but i don't think it's a "feel-good" movie. The film shows us some of the real India, and there is not anything good about that. We see all the orphans and how they earn the most money.
2: Which scene is your favourite/least favourite? why?
My favorite scene in the movie is when they're filming the slum in bird's-eye view and they just keep zooming out and you realize just how big the slum is. it's crazy to think about, how many people who lived like that.
3: What does this film tell you about modern day India?
They're telling about the call-centers and how they're trained to the job. They also tell about how fast India are changing. etc the slum where they lived is now part of an industry aria.
4: Did you recognize anything from your English classes in the film?
Yes! etc everything Ghandi fought for is long gone, the hindus and the muslims are fighting and it have become a country where money are in center.
Also we read alot about the call centers and how they're training their employes.
Ditte
1: Do you agree that it is "the feel-good film of the decade"?
SvarSletNo, there are way to many sad things happening in this film, even though it’s a happy ending. When it ends, you feel happy for Jamal and Latika, but it’s not a feel good movie, there are so many people that die, and so many bad things that happen, and you don’t really have the feeling that India is a good place to be.
2: Which scene is your favourite/least favourite? why?
My favorite scene is when Jamal has to sing for the man, and then asks him for money, because he now is a professional singer.
3: What does this film tell you about modern day India?
It tells us that there is a lot violence still happening in India, and women still doesn’t have all of their rights, and men hunts for money, and a lot of them will do anything to get it. It also shows that India is a poor land, but it has gotten better, than what we see in the flashback parts of the movie.
4: Did you recognize anything from your English classes in the film?
We have talk a lot about call centers in calls, and seen a film about it. Gandhi didn’t want violence in India, but this film shows that there still is a lot of violence.
1: Do you agree that it is "the feel-good film of the decade"?
SvarSletI agree. It is definitely an epic love story about a boy who seeks after this girl, who is the love of his life. Money does not matter at all; the most important thing is love.
2: Which scene is your favourite/least favourite? why?
I have many favourite scenes. But one of them: Jamal is "sitting on the toilet", and suddenly the famous actor, Amitabh, passes by. Jamal cannot come out, because Salim has locked him in. The only way out is to jump down into the shit. He decides to do it, and because of that, he gets an autograph.
I think it is a very sweet scene.
3: What does this film tell you about modern day India?
That India has changed, from slum districts to industry buildings.
4: Did you recognize anything from your English classes in the film?
I recognize how the Indian call centres work. How the chai-wallahs need lessons about English countries
Mai
1: No, I don't think it is THE feel-good film of the decade. Oskar already wrote: It is hard to tell if the movie is the feel-good film of the decade since I haven't seen of them. The film makes me feel good anyway. 2: My least favorite scene is the scene where Mamman and his men is putting something boiling in the singing boy's eyes. That something made him blind. My favorite scene is the scene where Jamal wins the 20 million rupins, owing to the phone call with Latika. 3: In the movie we see how much the country has changed. In the scene where Jamal meets his brother Salim again, they are looking over the city from the high building, and the brother points out that the business-area once was their home. Also it shows us a little bit of how it works in callcentres. 4: In one of the English classes we saw the documentary about these callcentres.
SvarSletSarah
1. "Slumdog millionaire" is a great film. The film tells us a lot about Indian culture. It shows how hard conditions millions of indians live under. That a boy from the worst slum of India to a millionaire is very beautiful and makes us feel good and is one of best feel-good film from the decade. But there are also many others feel-good films from the decade.
SvarSlet2. My favourite scene is when Jamal is fighting against shit and such to meet his favourite actor. The scene shows what a fighter the main character is. We see that Jamal already from childhood was a great fighter. Then it is also very beautiful when we see how happy he becomes.It is beautiful that a autograph from his favourite actor can make him jumping and dancing.
3. The film shows how hard conditions millions of indians are living under. The slums in the big cities are really rough. it is hard to imagine that millions of people live in this. But the movie shows also that India is developing. We saw in the movie that where there had been slum is now a big construction site.
4. We have read a text about call centres in India. In the film we how the call centres workers are learning about the british culture. that was exactly what we read in the text.
We have read about Gandhi. Mohandas Gandhi has had great influence of India´s development. In the film we hear that Jamal knows which president who is on the 100-milliondollar bill but he says when the host referes to Gandhi that he has only just heard a little about him. It tells us that Gandhi does not have the same importance as before.
(1)This is the first "feel-good movie" I've ever seen, so it's hard to tell - but! This is a very good and inlightning movie, bacause we see all kind of people in the sociaty. From the rich to the very poor.
SvarSlet(2)My favorite scene in the movie is when Jamal sees Latika in the trainstation, because it's filed with action.
(3)The movie tells us, that modern day India has a groving economy, as well as a great diversity. The film showed us how it is to work in a call center, and what they do in the call centers.
(4)One of the things we learned in english class, is how the call centers operate. They have their daily meetings, where they train eachother on how to speak american or british, for example. They have to learn to talk about relevant stuff, something the callers can relate to.
Martin Washuus.
1:
SvarSletI will say that it was a bit of both. Because it ends good and they get a way from Maman, but all the bad things there happens to them like they did lost there mother and all. So I will say it's a bit of both.
2:
I will say my favorite seen is when they get united again. Where all is good and they finally get pease from all there problems. And of course the dance at the closing seen. You also see the filming is en eye level, where the most of the film is bird ore frog perspective. That tells us that all is good. And you can't forget about the music is suddenly calm and peaceful.
3:
I think this film tells us about the difference between a poor man and a rich fellow. And there is still the slums all a round the world. Also how you look at people in the world and how you treed them like in the starting seen we see all this Indian men coming at the Muslims (Jamal).
4:
The presences to Gandhi, India, religion and which kind of lay you are in.
Rune