Comment of the Week: Slumdog Millionaire Ignites Conversation

Cynthia Changyit Levin's comment about how the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire has sparked conversation and shined a light on poverty in India caught our eye. That's why Cynthia is this week's winner of the comment of the week contest. Her comment:

No matter what people may think about how poverty was portrayed in Slumdog Millionaire, it has definitely sparked a discussion. I have seen poverty-focused editorials, op-eds, and news articles inspired by this film printed in local papers, Newsweek and even the current Entertainment Weekly. But my favorite place to hear it discussed was at a party attended by upper middle class suburban moms. When I heard a woman say "I had no idea that level of poverty existed in India or anywhere!" I was satisfied to think that the film had broken through to her so that she would open the dialogue about global poverty in as unlikely a place as a birthday celebration.

It's great to hear that the film is making an impact among people that weren't previously aware of issues of extreme poverty. Thanks for the great comment!

Comments

in Russia

Slumdog Millionaire

The film is spoken about,
Some are against it, some are proud.
The life is not an easy thing,
And only hardship something bring.
One should much suffer, beggar be
To choose the answer, which is D.
There will be many trials on the way
For you to thrive perhaps some day.
You should perseverant be if want achieve the goal,
A very good film on the whole.
And the idea is as such:
You will be rich, first suffer much

in aashiyana,lucknow,UP,INDIA

Slumdog Millionaire Ignites Conversation

Slumdog Millionaire is a film which attracted all caste people of the world. As the winner of 4 Golden Globe awards and nominee of 10 Academy awards, it shows all the emotions, friendship, love, hate, care, and also the poverty.

here is the bad parts of religion outweigh the good and it is simply a power play for the powerful to control the weak.

It is a religious thing. Slumdog apparently portrays Hindus and Muslims in a Negative way of light. There are various scenes of religious riots in the slums of India where people are killed in the name of a conviction/or the name of particular religion.. and it appears that this does not settle comfortably on either side of the "my GOD can beat up your GOD" proves that rages all over the world even as you are reading this.

With the help of this film the director want's to prove that a slum by their hard work and with their Will power will become a Millionaire in future but that person which cross out the slums life never forget their friends.

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