In Slumdog Millionaire, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy shares the story of Jamal, a boy who grew up in the slum neighborhoods of India and managed to gain a spot on the gameshow, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Throughout the film, Jamal has been asked to confess his crimes to the police because they suspect Jamal of cheating.
Jamal, had been treated in an unethical and ineffective way to gather any information from Jamal. The method of torture itself isn’t an effective way of getting information. Because there is no way for the police to gather intel on the suspect. Also, to take in consideration that it the methods itself are cruel, like waterboarding and other violent actions. The common defense of torture is that the detainee is the prime source of information and must be punished anyway. They consider this the “ticking time bomb scenario”. An ethics experiment where they “consider” the detainee has knowledge of a terrorist attack. An article written by Andrea Mitchell, (Robert Windrem and Erin Mcclam) had considered CIA documents released by the senate and found 7 of the 39 detainees where “subjected into aggressive interrogation” but yielding no intelligence. Whereas other detainees weren’t subjected to aggressive torture methods and provided for more intelligence. Most the detainees that where suspected where proved innocent as well. A study of the phoenix A study in the torture and assassination program Viet Cong members had found that it victimized at least 38 Vietcong agents. The studies of torture in Northern Ireland conclude: “For harvesting information, torture is the clumsiest method available to organizations, even clumsier in some cases than flipping coins or shooting randomly into crowds. The sources of error are systematic and ineradicable. [Torture and Democracy]” The psychological impact on the detainee can be heart wrenching. Jamal itself doesn’t seem to be effected by the copious amount of torture he had went through. But such methods of torture can impact the cognition if the detainee survives. Shane ‘O Mara writes “torture does not produce reliable information largely because of the severity with which it impairs the ability to think. Extreme pain, cold, sleep deprivation and fear of torture itself all damage memory, mood and cognition Produce reliable information largely because of the severity with which it impairs the ability to think. Extreme pain, cold, sleep deprivation and fear of torture itself all damage memory, mood and cognition.” John Conroy writes that there are six stages of torture. The first is Reluctance, where the perpetrator is reluctant to participate or observe the administration of torture. The next is official encouragement the Stanford prison experiment and Milgram experiment show, the detainee will follow an authority figure. If it follows as mandatory the main purpose of this is to fell a loss of respect. Peer encouragement: the perpetrator begins to accept torture as necessary, accepted and or deserved, after, dehumanization where the perpetrator sees the victim as an object instead of a human being and finally disinhibition: Many War veterans have experienced PSTD through of the traumas of torture. Mark Domeck, A junior psychologist had his first experience war victims. They had felt a mistrust in him, but gradually gained trust over him over time. Mark shares his first-time experience. “For me, the first moment when I began to understand about torture was a moment during my Psychology Internship. I was a junior therapist in a small group therapy session for Vietnam veterans with Postraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I was a short-termer in that group, there for six months only and because I was the new guy, and because I was 'authority' it took a long time before I was trusted by the patients in the group. Somewhere in the middle of those months, a more quiet participant started talking about an atrocity he had witnessed during his service. A man he knew had been flayed and left alive to die by the enemy. As the story was told, I found myself in eye contact with this man, who was holding it together well, but was also weeping in a controlled manner. And I began weeping too, because it was Horrible, this story being told. In retrospect, I was being tested to some extent. "Can this green therapist handle the real stuff or will he fall apart? Can we rely on this guy?" were perhaps the unspoken thoughts in the room. I left that experience thinking I had failed the test with my weeping. After supervision (a process where you review your work with an experienced senior clinician), however, I came to the realization that I had probably not failed the test entirely. I had cried for sure, and should have managed more restraint. A therapist's restraint in the face of strong emotions is a container of sorts – part of the safety net that a therapist is supposed to be providing for patients. At the same time, I didn't lose it entirely, just like the veteran did not lose it either. And by crying, I supposed that I had shown, in a manner that no amount of therapy technique could have communicated that I cared; was engaged; thought what he had experienced was Horrible; felt what had been experienced to be Horrible; was not judging the man for what he saw or how he reacted.” More than 300,000 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan where diagnosed with PSTD.As much as 2/3 of them where not receiving treatment. Suicides among US troops overall are also up to one a day. Veterans account for 20% of all US suicides. The issue of torture may feel resolved, The US senate had already closed the loopholes of torture by the detainee treatment act of 2005, which “prohibits cruel, or degrading punishment of detainees” (H.R. 2863, Title X) and The Geneva conventions prohibits “violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture” Conventions against torture was adopted by the UN in 1984. But this doesn’t mean that torture isn’t an issue around the world. 142 countries around the world were observed by the amnesty international service and found that 79 of these countries still use torture. and since it’s happening secretly behind our backs in the US. The laws itself show it isn’t proving its effectiveness. The detainee act was modified by the Graham amendment and permits the department of defense to obtained through torture of Guantanamo Bay detainees, and expands the prohibition of habeas corpus for redetainees, which subsequently leaves detainees no legal recourse if they are tortured. It seems the government loves to cover their tracks. So, the people have a sense of security within USA. But this isn’t the case here. In 2014, an article was written by the senate committee voted to declassify Bush era documents. The report states a man named Jose Rodguez ordering to destroy 92 tapes of various cruel actions against the detainees. He had said that it would make the senate look terrible. But in all honestly, the damage is already done. The secret is already out. The film doesn’t show anything about them destroying the evidence at all. It still goes to show that the CIA will take ineffective risk to a person to gather information. Not to mention to cover their tracks to seem like nothing was taking part. Jamal’s torture had not only been ineffective, but had put had a psychological impact on himself. He was falsely accused of cheating and the police had tried to gut it out of him. In the end, the police had got nothing out of him in retrospect. Torture itself is an inexcusable way of getting information out of a person. In this essay, it seems the most effective way is to keep the crazy antics to yourself. Otherwise you’ll end up covering up the mess you’ve created. works cited: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26685-that-cia-torture-methods-were-pointless-is-no-shock http://www.newsweek.com/eight-10-countries-ill-treat-and-torture-citizens-amnesty-309274 http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/12/torture-report-amnesty.html http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/senate-report-cia-torture/torture-was-ineffective http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/cia-torture-report/senate-report-finds-cia-interrogation-tactics-were-ineffective-n264621 http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/12/torture-report-amnesty.html https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=6a8f9372-a8a4-425c-9f79-32f30a9dd4f9 http://www.nytimes.com/ref/international/24MEMO-GUIDE.html?_r=1& http://www.cfr.org/terrorism-and-the-law/detainee-treatment-act-2005-hr-2863-title-x/p9865 https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=0084e644-a5ed-46e1-8649-762df3ffcf4f https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/senate-intelligence-committee-study-on-cia-detention-and-interrogation-program http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/senate-report-cia-torture/torture-was-ineffective http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/cia-torture-report/senate-report-finds-cia-interrogation-tactics-were-ineffective-n264621 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/0 http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/3/senate-torture-reportciadeclassify.html3/washington/03web-intel.html?_r=0 http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/9/senate-cia-torture.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_torture#Victims_with_PTSD
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In the first weeks of march to nearing the end of march, we were instructed to complete a film based project. The film, was titled Slumdog millionaire! I’d to say that it wasn’t my forte of film choice. Obviously, you must do it or id lose some points on my letter grade.
For the most part, I worked the project entirely by myself, except for our Instructor Sabatino. I can say this was my weakest I’ve done. I had waited until the last minute to work, also spring break was the week after leading me to completely forget about the project itself. As usual, I had done this in the comfort of my own home, usually in the basement on the computer shifting back and forth so I don’t sit there stuck on the same subject. it was the usual experience. But as I said earlier, I had rushed a bit from my lack of time management. Which I can improve in the last weeks of the semester. The topic I had choose was to write about how themes of violence, mistrust and poverty impacted Jamal. I can say that I could’ve choose a better topic for this assignment. It felt uninteresting to write about how violence impacted him. I think it would’ve been better to write about the class system of India. Then, extend the ideas out of the film. I could revise my film project with the Idea of idea and poverty, But I’m unsure if it fits the criteria. I think I could just rewrite the essay altogether and choose a different topic. This would lead me to start over from scratch, But I’m okay with that. Sometimes when something is started, there is a probability it will fail. But that’s how most art works. You keep starting repeatedly until you’ve found the right thing. In Slumdog Millionaire, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy shares the story of Jamal, a boy who grew up in the slum neighborhoods of India and managed to gain a spot on the gameshow, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? At the beginning of the film, a scene is shown of Jamal’s mother being killed in what is a known incident called The Bombay Riots. Jamal flees with his brother Salim, and they must figure out how to live on their own. Later, they’re seen sleeping in a storage container and meeting up with Latika, a girl from the slums who isn’t related to Jamal or Salim. They are taken in by a man known as Maman. Who takes them to their so-called orphanage to later find out that he is blinding children. Which leads us to Jamal's personality. Which has been shaped through his experiences with repeated violence, interactions with people he cannot trust, and the struggles of abject poverty.
The first thing the we recognize in this film is violence. His mother was killed in The Bombay Riots, which left both brothers without any parents left. We can say this when Salim acquires the gun he took from maman. He starts displaying his dominance to gang members saying that he shot his rival. led Which attentively, leads Jamal's brother Salim to becoming a gang member. This has ultimately changed how he views Salim as his brother. Which leads to our next theme of mistrust. His brother Salim, has destroyed the relationship Jamal. It shows itself slightly in the beginning of the film, shows Salim selling his autographed action star that Jamal had gotten from Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan. After this point, Salim slowly becomes an evil brother. As he purposely let’s go of Latika for playing a prank on him. But knowing him, he doesn’t admit to that to Jamal. But not until when they’re young teens is where salim’s true colors show. When he tells Jamal to leave with a gun straight to his face. As of this point in the film, He is working for Javed. A rival drug lord of Maman. Years later, Jamal is now in a call center as a teaboy. He searches for Salim and Latika through the call centers database. Salim and Jamal meet at a construction site and It doesn’t go as you’d expect as happy family supper on thanksgiving. Jamal’s eyes showed his complete hatred for his brother’s actions and a feeling of betrayal. He doesn’t fully realize until the end of the film, when he hears Latika. With the name of the film being titled: Slumdog Millionaire The last thing we can recognize is the overall setting of this film, which is in the slums of Mumbai, India. This area in specific is in poverty. People are sitting on piles of trash, children are walking around half naked, beggars are everywhere and children are everywhere making public places like restrooms they call “homes.” with Jamal in specific, Jamal hustles his way through the streets of India. He starts begging on the streets. then, stealing goods from tourists and finally, tricking people to thinking he was a tourist at the Taj Mahal. Jamal and Salim haven’t grasped the concept of what is right or wrong. Since, the brothers mother was killed, and since the education system wasn’t really teaching enough to the students, these children are forced into criminal action to survive. Outside of the film. Detroit poverty percentage of 59 percent. The death rate for young people ages 1-19 increased 14 percent between 2004 and 2012, mostly because of increased homicide. Per Detroit news. To compare with this film. The rate is based on families that have neglected their children alongside abuse. Cuts in social services have also impacted many of the people in poverty. In Conclusion, the themes of violence, poverty and mistrust are immensely common throughout the film. How it impacts Jamal, is when he enters the gameshow: Who wants to be a millionaire! Where he answers all the questions through his experiences and later wins the grand prize of ₹20 million rupees. I think without all of what had happened to him, I don’t think he would’ve even won the 20 million rupees or possibly, even gotten on the gameshow for that matter. This also answers one thing the Jamal believes, is that he believes that his future isn’t already written. He can continue to be a Slumdog, or life in the riches of fame. In Slumdog Millionaire, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy shares the story of Jamal, a boy who grew up in the slum neighborhoods of India and managed to gain a spot on the gameshow, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? At the beginning of the film, a scene is shown of Jamal’s mother being killed in what is a known incident called The Bombay Riots. Jamal flees with his brother Salim, and they must figure out how to live on their own. Later, they’re seen sleeping in a storage container and meeting up with Latika, a girl from the slums who isn’t related to Jamal or Salim. Two or three more summary sentences. Thesis statement: Jamal's personality has been shaped through his experiences with repeated violence, interactions with people he cannot trust, and the struggles of abject poverty.
The first thing the we recognize in this film is violence. His mother was killed in The Bombay Riots, which left both brothers without any parents left. It is one of the dark paths that had left both children on a path without any morals. Both of them are free of any restrictions. This has lead Jamal's brother Salim to becoming a gang member. The next thing I identify in the film, is when Jamal and Salim are finding her friend Latika. They find her in a prostitution ring in a different part of town, Jamal and Salim make an abrupt entrance while Maman is there. Salim, grabs his gun and shoots Maman. This has ultimately changed how he views Salim as his brother. Which leads to our next theme of mistrust. This is common from the beginning to the end. His brother Salim, has destroyed the relationship Jamal. It shows itself slightly in the beginning of the film, shows Salim selling his autographed action star that Jamal had gotten from Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan. After this point, Salim slowly becomes an evil brother. As he purposely let’s go of Latika for playing a prank on him. But knowing him, he doesn’t admit to that to Jamal. But not until when they’re young teens is where salim’s true colors show. When he tells Jamal to leave with a gun straight to his face. As of this point in the film, He is working for Javed. A rival drug lord of Maman. Years later, Jamal is now in a call center as a teaboy. He searches for Salim and Latika through the call centers database. Salim and Jamal meet at a construction site and It doesn’t go as you’d expect as happy family supper on thanksgiving. Jamal’s eyes showed his complete hatred for his brother’s actions and a feeling of betrayal. He doesn’t fully realize until the end of the film, when he hears Latika. With the name of the film being titled: Slumdog Millionaire The last thing we can recognize is the overall setting of this film, which is in the slums of Mumbai, India. This area in specific is in poverty. Therefore, poverty has a huge impact on not only Jamal, but the rest of the people living in that rural area. People are sitting on piles of trash, children are walking around half naked, beggars are everywhere and children are everywhere making public places like restrooms they call “homes.” Extending this idea, with Jamal in specific, Jamal hustles his way through the streets of India. He starts begging on the streets. then, stealing goods from tourists and finally, tricking people to thinking he was a tourist at the Taj Mahal. Jamal and Salim haven’t grasped the concept of what is right or wrong. Since, the brothers mother was killed, and since the education system wasn’t really teaching enough to the students, these children are forced into criminal action to survive. In Conclusion, the themes of violence, poverty and mistrust are immensely common throughout the film. How it impacts Jamal, is when he enters the gameshow: Who wants to be a millionaire! Where he answers all the questions through his experiences and later wins the grand prize of ₹20 million rupees. I think without all of what had happened to him, I don’t think he would’ve even won the 20 million rupees or possibly, even gotten on the gameshow for that matter. This also answers one thing the Jamal believes, is that he believes that his future isn’t already written. He can continue to be a Slumdog, or life in the riches of fame. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537114001146 The film that had won movie madness was a film titled Slumdog millionaire. My first initial judgement was to think it was some type of gangster movie with no originality. Where a kid in the ghetto of some suburban city. rises to the top of becoming the top gangster on his block. I guess you can say I was about the ghetto part, but as an A-typical Detroit gangster movie, then,I was indefinitely wrong. It goes to say that when you look at something a certain way, It might not have been what you thought.
Slumdog millionaire is a British drama film set in Mumbai India. The has some tones that can reflect the state of India’s class system. One quote that examples this will is when Jamal took American tourists on a fake tour around a certain slum in India. The tourist come back to their car and are shocked that the car has been stripped into pieces’. A police off comes over and starts beating Jamal, and shouts “You want to see the real India! Here it is! This quote is powerful, because it reflects the reality of India’s class system known as the caste system. It shares the same system as the European feudal system. Which was the king at the top, and the peasants at the bottom. But in India, there are two type of categories to describe Indian communities. The first is Castes and the second is tribes. The “castes” were considered the elites of Indian society and divided the rest of the castes into three lower classes,Which are the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras. This could be a good argument-based essay. Since the movies imagery reflects on India’s modern class system and its reality. We could make an argument whether or not India needs to change its system or should be kept, since the caste system d keeps modern tradition. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010048/?ref_=nv_sr_1 The film I will be picking is a film titled 2001: A Space Odyssey, A science fiction film released on April,2 1968 and directed by Stanley Kubrick the film is based off the novel written by Arthur C. Clarke. Which was partially inspired by Clarke’s short story “the Sentinel”. Later used as a starting point for the film. 2001: A Space Odyssey was considered the most influential film ever made. The United States congress had considered it culturally, historically or aesthetically significant. Sight & sound magazine ranked Space odyssey sixth top ten films of all time. The film had generally received mixed reviews, it had gained a cult following and became one of the highest grossing films of 1968. 2001 A Space Odyssey is set in the distant past and the future. Abe-men Discover a monolith on earth. The mysteries unveiled of these monoliths are unknown. In the distant future, Humans discover this same monolith again, but this time on the moon. Hal 9000(A computer), David Bowman (crew member) and Frank Poole (Other crew member) go on a voyage to uncover the mysterious monoliths discovered on both planets. I think this film Is an interesting choice for a film project because it has recurring themes of Artificial Intelligence, human evolution, technology and extraterrestrial life. One topic we could write about is if you believe that Extraterrestrial life exists on other planets, or if Artificial intelligence and technology can advance to the point where a computer acts on its own will? |
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