Genocide

After you watch the video, answer the following questions: 

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

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? What did Jamal do?

He was defeating him, dearing to his knowledge or to his innocence, to see if he was as good* as he appeared, if he was smart enough, if he only had a brain, or he also had social smarts, if you can call it in that way, he had been through a lot of things to trust that easy on someone, of course he would answer the question according to what he believed not letting the host advice interfer.

Also I can say that the host wanted to be the only one that acheived to be a millionaire.

Describe how loss, chance, luck, suffering, and street smarts are also characters behind the scenes. The film explores gain and loss side by side. Triumphs are tempered with loss. Where do you see this evident?

When the boys could ran away from the guy they worked for, they had to leave the girl behind.

When the grown girl could get to Jamal, Salim died because he helped her.

Jamal had to go to jail because he was giving the correct answers and he was becoming a millionaire, but not everyone had feith on him, and his answers.

Slumdog Millionare

• In the final scene, we see Salim and the choice he makes - filling the bathtub with money, etc. Why does he make this choice?
Because he become rich doing bad things and he didn't have the experiences his brother lived and all that money he haved was earned by bad things he had done, also he killed the other man so he his brother and Talika could live peacefull and also Salim maybe preferred to be killed instantly and not suffer to much.
• 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 that happens in your life is what makes you and things happen for a reason, good or bad things you learn from them and lather they may help you; also that you can do your future you can struggle to make it better.

Slumdog Millionare

- Greed, corruption and the misuse of power are highlighted in the film through a variety of characters. How are those who have money and power glamorized in this film? What happens to the victims?
Salim’s boss, he has so much control over his “employees”, everyone do what he told them to and if they didn’t, the most probable thing that he would do is kill them. Latika also suffered from him, they had her chased at the train station and Salim cut her face.

- 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 in the mirror in the rest room. Why did he give Jamal the wrong answer? What did Jamal do?
Maybe the host didn’t want Jamal to win and became a millionare as he did once before, I think that he didn’t, like “trust” Jamal because he acused him from fraud. When is was time for Jamal
to choose and answer he chosed the other answer that turned out to be right.


DOMINIQUE

slumdog millionaire

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

This was the story of the live of a common guy in India. We had the opportunity to see how other people in the world struggle for sustain, literally living in trash, seeing prostitutes, having no place and no parents, this at least in my case let me think about the great chance that I have of education, wealth, health and freedom.  Something that stayed with me is the sense of humanity, because these children though they were used to have a bad life they still had dreams to go for. This should make us value what we have and keep doing the best we can because there's people far away  with situations worst than us that just keep going!

In the final scene, we see Salim and the choice he makes- filling the bathtub with money, etc. Why does he make this choice?

I think he perfectly knew he was not going to be able to skip this one , so he preferred to die around a lot of money.  The one he was unable to have during his life.  I think he also wanted to show the guy that was going to enter that he had stole his money and he was going to keep it with him. It was pretty impacting this one, really tough for me. 

-anne

Compare and contrast 3 pivotal choices or desicions made by Jamal and Salim.How do their choices affect their respective paths in life?
As they made different choices in their life their life took different ways.Salim made the decision of living his home.He made a decision about working to a very dangerous man, and at the end of the movie the decided to help his brother and Latika by killing his boss.Those decisions or actions made his end.
Jamal decided to work.That decision made him get in the show of who wants to be a millionaire.he decided to play, and he won at the end.IN the game he made several decisions but at the end he keep on winning so he baceame millionaire.


Is ethnical decision making posible when one must make choices based on survival?Do seemingly "bad"choices make a person bad?
Most of the time because the people who are making a decision they are customed or "made" by their ethic group so they think or act like someone of their ethnic group would act, but talking about survival cases sometimes not because when it's about survival you don't care about the others would think it's just that you want to survive and its not neccesary and ethnical decision.Bad choices don't make a person bad, they are just a mistake.But when you keep on making bad decisions you can change but not at all.

What do you think the film is saying about 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 the film staying about the effect of money on culture.
There are still their culture, there are still extremely poor people and human discrimination, there is globalization but their culture doesn't change.The game could be a sign of progress but not so much because its just a show and just a couple of the indian people win money from there, its progress because they are getting more modern with tv show and all that.People were extremely poor, but in the movie we could see people who were not poor but their culture for me was the same, they still treated women badly, there were fights between the people, etc.

Questions for Reflection & Discussion

1• What does the title mean? How does the title and the contrasts within it provide symbolic summary of the film?
The title means what he basiclly turned into, he was a slumdog and now he is a millionaire. It basiclly sums all the movie because that's what it shows, the life of a slumdog and all the things he had to go through, and how all these things led himto become a millionare.

2• Early in the film we see the young Jamal dive into a latrinepit to steal a glimpse at a visiting movie star. How does his single-mindedness to see this movie star reveal hisdetermination? What other examples do you see in the film of his determination?
It reveals how did everything he could to reach his goal, that was seeing the movie star, he didn't cared getting all dirty, he wanted to see him and no one would stop him from it. Other examples of his determination would be how he never forgot about Latika, everyone said that he should forget about her but he never did, and in the end with his determination he reached his goal, that was to be with her.

3• 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 destiny was good to him because all that he wanted and seemed impossible to have, he got it at the end, like the answer that he didn't knew, it turned out to be the right one.