Violence In Slumdog Millionaire

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In the film, “Slumdog Millionaire” showed the world how India is a society that is filled with violence and abuse. Slumdog Millionaire exposes the tragic effects of poverty in many different cities of India. The film talks about a Mumbai boy, Jamal, who grew up in the slums that became a contestant on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” During the contest, Jamal were arrested under suspicion of cheating. Jamal was being interrogated by the police, and revealed events from his life history to explain why he knew the answers on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”
The film started off with Jamal being interrogated by the police by using hanging torture. Jamal was hanging with his hands tied to a rope. A Sergeant asked the person who was interrogating if he got anything out of him. The interrogator says no, and the inspector had decided to try harder by torturing Jamal more. The inspector hooks Jamal up to a battery car and threatens him to give him electric shock. He asked him how he cheated on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” Jamal refused to talk because he felt very uncomfortable telling his life story to explain why he knew the answers. He had gone through tremendous obstacles that …show more content…

Eventually, victims of domestic violence and abuse would reveal of what had happened to them. Victims talking about their situation can help them to cope with it after bottling it up for their whole life. Jamal’s whole life was flashed to specific scenes where the answers were available to the contest show. The inspector brought Jamal back to the police station and showed him clips of Jamal’s answers on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” Each of the clips, Jamal explained how he knew the answers from his life history. On one of the clips, the game show host asked, “Which poet wrote the song Darshan Do

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