Slumdog Millionaire

         Slum Dog Millionaire is one of best movies I have ever seen. This movie displays the real India. Main character Jamal goes from rags and nearly death to riches. After living a life of fighting to make it to the top he's competing in television show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and wins thanks to recalling his life experiences. At a young age Jamal experienced what it's like living in a slum or poverty. The movie shows structural functionalism known as, "a theory that explains the expectations of a society and the inability of the members of that society to stray away from those expectation." Jamal and other young children are playing football on a landing strip and immediately get yelled at, threatened and chased. In America you may get yelled at and warned but they were doing something that is not accepted in Mumbai, India and were going to be beaten if caught.  Other things children were punished for in the movie were selling product in the area's belonging to other merchants and commonly stealing. Jamal display self employment by giving tourist tours for money. This eventually gets him in trouble as well. He showed some tourist from the inner city the slums and their car got stripped of it's tires and the person in charge of watching people wash clothes in the slums chased and threatened Jamal. Slum Dog Millionaire is also a perfect example of social conflict. Gender wise children without families or even caught in the wrong place at the wrong time are kidnapped transported and forced to work for someone. Young girls  are put in sex trafficking, young boys are trained to kill, steal, and drug deal. If you are useless to the man in charge you will be killed. None of these children are allowed to go to school. During this time Jamal learned a lot from staying on the background and listening. Another gender conflict role is with a girl that Jamal crushes on from a young age. She is separated from him and made to be in sex trafficking, then when she gets older she's forced to be the girl toy for a well known man in their city. This is a social norm for them. The people have no power in their city. So  although all of these wrongful things occur no one can free them or even try without being killed or severely hurt. As Jamal is competing on the television show he is accused of cheating being a telemarketer and getting every answer correct. This can be relative to symbolic interaction or even stereotypes because the only reason they suspect him of cheating is because he's a man who's come from nothing and is knowledgeable on every question he gets. The cool part is that Jamal has a flashback relating to each topic. Jamal's older brother Salim was his protector, guardian and enemy throughout the movie. They helped each other in their younger battles but once Jamal kept being the hero or getting things that made Salim jealous they became enemies. Salim did a lot to harm his brother including keeping Latika for himself after Jamal liked her from childhood. His deviance was only explanatory through jealousy because Jamal expresses he still loves his brother throughout the continuous search for him after their separation. This movie show's the truth about how hard it can be coming from nothing yet, how beneficial a hard life's experience can be. Five stars hands down. I highly recommend it.