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"Slumdog Millionaire" is an academy awards winning film in 2008. This is the plot. A boy named Jamal was born and raised in the world's largest slums in India. One day, he happened to be in a popular TV quize show called "Who Wants to be a Millionaire." Jamal solved many questions and finally there was only one more question left. However, he was suspected to be cheating because people thought an ignorant boy raised in the slums can not be that smart. He was taken to the police. There, he talked about his childhood, life history, and his background...
This film was made in UK, so there were some controversies about some misconceptions of the slum in India. Those misunderstandings are cuased by bias or prejudice against the race in India or the social class image in India. Amitabh Bachchan, a famous actor in India, writes in his blog "if this film describes India as a dirty third world and brings anger or agony to some nationalists and patriots, I want to claim that any other developed countries have such gloomy side of society, and that also such side is developing. 'Slumdog Millionaire' was appreciated internationally as a piece of art because it was only happened to be a plot of Indian and made by Western people."
He also states that Hollywood has featured the bad and sad elements of their society in their movies. He wonders after watching Hollywood movies, if the world should be thinking that America is a country that consists only of criminals, racists, rapists, pregnant teenagers, drug-dealers, pedophiles. Hollywood used this wonderful medium such as films to fight against those evils. The Same thing happened in "Slumdog Millionaire." Bachchan says to those who in anger at the misconception depicted in the movie.
However, it is true that sometimes the reality and the plot in the movies are different. Movie industries tend to exaggerate the vicious elements that the different race have so that they can make more money or make the film into a big hit.
After I watched the film "Going Native" in the class, I had a question in my mind.
Are Native Americans have the same kind of problem as small tribes in Japan have?
In Japan, the small tribes in Okinawa and Hokkaido (they are called Ainu)
have a problem that their younger generations are going out of their traditional area and they don't inherit the traditions form older generation. The youngs go out for city areas and study in colleges, work there, and have a family there. In this way, Okinawan or Ainu languages, thier traditional lifestyle, and the tribal itself are dissapearing. So what do the youger generations should do about this? Are they responsible for inheriting thier traditions in spite of the fast moving and changing current in this era?
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