Blog Post 8

After watching the Oscars on Sunday night and seeing just how successful Slumdog Millionaire was I was curious about what it was about and why it was so successful. The article Orphan’s Lifeline Out of Hell Could Be a Game Show in Mumbai by MANOHLA DARGIS really gave me a good explanation of the movie and how the culture of it is so different from ours. The article itself discusses how in the slums of India there are so many people but especially children who are just in such poverty they are rummaging through mounds and mounds of trash to hopefully find a mango peel. Or just something so small and worthless to us is like gold to them. Also that in Mumbai a lot of people are addicted to drugs and begin to go crazy after a while because of the starvation pains and such. Because of this the actors had to be trained to do play these types of roles. This relates to my life because I am now hopefully going to see Slumdog Millionaire and now i have a better understanding of the culture and of the story itself.