TAN, ROSCHELLE D.

BSBA HRM 4-1

PRINCIPLES OF SYSTEM THINKING

MOVIE ANALYSIS OF SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE 2008

Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire is a film that shows on how destiny works on

the two main character of the film.

The story illustrate the destiny of the two main characters (Jamal and Latika), that

goes through a lot of sufferings from their childhood until adulthood, causing them to

part ways. But the story doesn’t end there; Jamal who is madly in love with Latika will do

anything just to find her. That is the reason why he joined the game show “Who wants

to be a millionaire” because he knows that Latika will be watching it. In the end of the

film, the two still found each other because it’s their destiny.

The conflict in the story is when Jamal was charged of cheating. As an

uneducated teenager from the slums, he is being belittled by the presenter of the show

and the police inspector. He has to make them believe that he knew the answers

because of his experiences.

The story focuses on how Jamal Malik knew the answers in the questions in

“Who wants to be a millionaire”. He has to prove that he’s innocent and he didn’t cheat

at all. In every stage he played, he is being interviewed by the police inspector, and he

then tells the reason behind he knows all the answers to the questions. In the end, the
police inspector then believed that Jamal Malik is innocent and he then let him back to

the show.

As for the title of the story A Slumdog is a person who lives in a poor makeshift

locality in extremely dirty conditions like a stray dog. While a Millionaire is a person

whose wealth amount to million or more in some unit of currency. The title Slumdog

Millionaire basically means from rags-to-riches story of Jamal Malik, a boy from Mumbai

slum. The main character of the story has a goal of finding his one true love, Latika.

With the belief that Latika would be watching, he then joined the contest “Who wants to

be a millionaire”, and he then won the grand price.

The movie “Slumdog Millionaire” has many similarities in our country. For example,

many people is being belittled nowadays because they came from a poor family. The

story revolves around poverty. Because of poverty, Salim joined a group of gangster to

have a better life and protection against the other group of gangster. Because of

poverty, Jamal didn’t have the chance to go to school, resulting to him being belittled

and charged of cheating by the police inspector and the gameshow host. Poverty is the

main reason why some of the people didn’t achieve justice and why some people

became criminals, because they have no choice.

The main character (Jamal) participated in the contest because of his determination

to find his one true love (Latika). He joined the contest because he knows that Latika

would be watching him. And in the end, they still find each other because it is destined

to be.