Is Slumdog Millionaire a perfect ending?
Is Slumdog Millionaire a perfect ending?
To answer this question we need to know what a perfect ending is, often the perfect ending is what we see in Hollywood films and more often than not it is a cliche. Most people would say the 2 characters fall in love and the story ends there. Now all throughout Slumdog Millionaire (SM) Jamal is trying to find Latika and save her, he never gives up all thought the many years.
The exam styled question “the ending of Slumdog Millionaire is powerful; for the narrative, the characters and the audience” this is worth 15marks. Respond to this statement with your opinions, supporting your ideas with evidence from the narrative and the film form. Such as, how the ending concludes a number of narrative structures, including the equilibrium theory, binary oppositions and the enigma theory andevaluate how these conclusions contribute to making the end powerful
The ending in SM is very powerful because Jamal and Latika are people from the slums and they don’t have much money and then at the end Jamal wins loads of money and it’s the binary opposite from the beginning and the end of the film.
Another reason that makes the ending that much more powerful is the binary opposite between the good and bad, Jamal brother Salim. Salim was always flipping between good and bad and this made him an unpredictable character and we would never know if he was going to do something good or bad in that moment. In the beginning Salim started out good but a little rebellious and personally I think when Salim met Manam then he turned but within this part of his life he saved his brother. Although Salim was supposed to be the character we disliked at time I still couldn’t help feel sorry for Jamal when he died as I the end he helped Jamal and Latika get together in the end.
The narrative during the film kept moving between 3 periods of time: the present, past and further back in the past. Danny Boyle the director used this to show Jamal life and why he’s on the show etc, but when we catch up with the narrative it just continues moving forward. We don’t flash back. I think this is important because the film starts half way through Jamal story and we have to go back a find out why, but as soon as we catch up we are wanting Jamal to find Latika and we can predict the ending. SM uses Todorov’s Narrative theory because each story line (jamals life, police scene, who wants to be a millionaire) they all follow Todorovs theory.
To answer this question we need to know what a perfect ending is, often the perfect ending is what we see in Hollywood films and more often than not it is a cliche. Most people would say the 2 characters fall in love and the story ends there. Now all throughout Slumdog Millionaire (SM) Jamal is trying to find Latika and save her, he never gives up all thought the many years.
The exam styled question “the ending of Slumdog Millionaire is powerful; for the narrative, the characters and the audience” this is worth 15marks. Respond to this statement with your opinions, supporting your ideas with evidence from the narrative and the film form. Such as, how the ending concludes a number of narrative structures, including the equilibrium theory, binary oppositions and the enigma theory andevaluate how these conclusions contribute to making the end powerful
The ending in SM is very powerful because Jamal and Latika are people from the slums and they don’t have much money and then at the end Jamal wins loads of money and it’s the binary opposite from the beginning and the end of the film.
Another reason that makes the ending that much more powerful is the binary opposite between the good and bad, Jamal brother Salim. Salim was always flipping between good and bad and this made him an unpredictable character and we would never know if he was going to do something good or bad in that moment. In the beginning Salim started out good but a little rebellious and personally I think when Salim met Manam then he turned but within this part of his life he saved his brother. Although Salim was supposed to be the character we disliked at time I still couldn’t help feel sorry for Jamal when he died as I the end he helped Jamal and Latika get together in the end.
The narrative during the film kept moving between 3 periods of time: the present, past and further back in the past. Danny Boyle the director used this to show Jamal life and why he’s on the show etc, but when we catch up with the narrative it just continues moving forward. We don’t flash back. I think this is important because the film starts half way through Jamal story and we have to go back a find out why, but as soon as we catch up we are wanting Jamal to find Latika and we can predict the ending. SM uses Todorov’s Narrative theory because each story line (jamals life, police scene, who wants to be a millionaire) they all follow Todorovs theory.
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