12/1

Today in Human Geo, we finished “Slumdog Millionaire.”  Jamal goes to see Latika at her owner’s house but is unable to see her. In one of the next scenes, we see a Latika and many other girls watching “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?” with Salim and his boss. The boss changes the channel to a dancing show so the girls get up and dance. Latika sneaks out to watch it in another room.  Salim comes into the room and gives Latika keys and his cellphone and tells her to leave and go see Jamal. She drives to where the show is being filmed in hopes to see find him. When she arrives she doesn’t find him so she goes to someone’s home to watch it. When the show starts, the host gives the question and asks him if he wants to keep his money or continue and risk it all. He admits to not knowing the answer but wants to keep going. He asks to use his “phone a friend.” He dials his brothers number which is the only number he knows.  When Latika sees that he is calling his brother, she realizes she has the phone but it is in her car that she borrowed. She runs as fast as she can and just gets to it and answers it in time. She didn’t know the answer but that didn’t bother either of them. They were just happy to hear from each other. Once the phone is hung up he guesses and chooses A, which was the correct answer. His brother, Salim, knew when he gave Latika the phone and the keys, that it would cost him his life so he locked himself in a room, laid in a bathtub full of all his boss’ money and held a gun to the door. He shot when the door opened but it was no match for all the men flooding in and shooting, so that money was literally blood money. In one of the last scenes, he is sitting at a curb next to the train station. When he looks over, he sees Latika and he runs to see her. When the finally meet in the middle walkway, he kisses her wound and says,  “This is our destiny.” At the very end of the movie, a dance number breaks out with many people, but Jamal and Latika in the front. The younger actors who played Jamal and Latika are seen dancing together also. Overall I really enjoyed this movie though some of it was hard to understand.